Which is your favourite version of the following songs ?

[WildRosie]

Love Hurts Jim Capaldi or Nazareth

Crying Roy Orbison or Don McLean

I Got You Babe Sonny and Cher or UB40 and Chrissie Hynde

Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Gene Pitney- solo or with Marc Almond

All By Myself Eric Carmen or Celine Dion

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The Beatles or Elton John

Red, Red Wine Neil Diamond or UB40

Something The Beatles or Shirley Bassey

I think maybe you have an affinity for whatever you grew up with?

Hurt - Johnny Cash or Nine inch nails?
I drove all night - Roy Orbison or Cyndi Lauper?
Say hello, wave goodbye - David Gray or Soft Cell?
Venus - Shocking Blue or Bananarama?
Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum or Dr and the Medics?
The man who sold the world - Nirvana or Bowie?

Love Hurts Jim Capaldi or Nazareth - neither, Roy Orbison
Crying Roy Orbison
I Got You Babe Sonny and Cher
Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Gene Pitney with Marc Almond (there is nothing in the world that can’t be improved on with the addition of Marc Almond )
All By Myself Eric Carmen
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The Beatles
Red, Red Wine Neil Diamond
Something The Beatles

With a little help from my friends by the beatles, wet wet wet or joe cocker?

Dear prudence by the beatles or siouxsie?

Live and let die by wings or guns and roses? both

Rocket man by Elton john or kate Bush?

Its raining men by the weather girls or geri halliwell? both

Comfortably numb by pink floyd or the scissor sisters?

Only love can break your heart by Neil young or st etienne?

D'oh! yes I did know Love Hurts and Something. I just don't particularly like either (I know, heresy, but you like what you like...)

Love Hurts Jim Capaldi or Nazareth - Jim Capaldi

Crying Roy Orbison or Don McLean - Roy Orbison

I Got You Babe Sonny and Cher or UB40 and Chrissie Hynde - I like both - does that count?

Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Gene Pitney- solo or with Marc Almond - with Marc Almond (who can do no wrong in my book)

All By Myself Eric Carmen or Celine Dion - Can't stand either!

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The Beatles or Elton John - The Beatles

Red, Red Wine Neil Diamond or UB40 - UB40

Something The Beatles or Shirley Bassey - The Beatles

I also prefer Franz Ferdinand's version of 'Sound and Vision' rather than David Bowie - DH will now disown me

All the first ones. Though I do like UB40's Red Red Wine too. And couldn't agree more with Judas - Roy's version of Love Hurts beats anyone else's.

Actually, not meaning to dis Lefty Wilbury, but I probably have to confess to preferring the K D Lang and Roy Orbison version of Crying rather than his solo.

Love Hurts Nazareth

Crying Don McLean

I Got You Babe Sonny and Cher

Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Gene Pitney

All By Myself Eric Carmen

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The Beatles

Red, Red Wine UB40

Something The Beatles

Judas nooooo.......

Clawdy sorry, but he is still on it.....it’s not just her.....can you ever forgive me? PS do you share my Marc Almond love too? 😀

I like their version, but I love his! Lovely to see KD sing it in concert though, she always raises her hand and looks upwards with a smile at the end as a homage to Roy! Marc Almond....think I'm a bit old for that one!

Surely the best version of Crying is Raquel and Tony Angelino

Hurt - Johnny Cash or Nine inch nails?
I drove all night - Roy Orbison or Cyndi Lauper?
Say hello, wave goodbye - David Gray or Soft Cell?
Venus - Shocking Blue or Bananarama
Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum or Dr and the Medics?
The man who sold the world - Nirvana or Bowie?

Some very tough decisions in that selection. I’d have to go for Cash, but that’s purely because I’ve had little exposure to NIN.

Cyndi Lauper purely because I think in this particular song she edges it slightly, although I was really disappointed she didn’t become much bigger, she is very talented.

Soft Cell. That was the easiest one in this selection for me.

Spirit in the Sky is a very tough one- both versions are good for different reasons - I’d have this one as a draw ( is that allowed?).

Bowie - again a close call, but he edges it slightly- possibly just due to my age. There have been some truly awful Bowie covers (Lulu springs to mind) but this one is very good.

Hurt - NIN with David Bowie (live performance)
I drove all night - Roy Orbison, though Cyndi is fantastic too
Say hello, wave goodbye - Soft cell, of course
Venus - Shocking blue way
Spirit in the sky - don't like.
The man who sold the world - Nirvana. Badbilly I really like Lulu's version, though it has Bowie and Ronson all over it any way.

William Shatner for Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

Today I learnt that Lulu had a fling with Bowie.
I usually just hear Bloody Lulu when I see her name Brendan went through the mill with her.
But I recently watched John Barrowman and Simon Amstell's gay off so now I just think of Robin Ince in the guess the into round pretending to be irate: ''What would Barrowman know? Lulu. It's Lulu then!!!''

She only revealed the fling after he died, though, so I think I'd take that with a pinch of salt......
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Who, Lulu? No, she's been talking about it for years. I think he might have even confirmed it.

She only revealed the fling after he died, though, so I think I'd take that with a pinch of salt......

No, she mentions it in her 2002 autobiography, albeit briefly. David Bowie didn’t die until 2016.