Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version poster

Basic Info

First Air: November 06, 2015

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 1

Last Episode

Name: Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

Season: 1, Episode: 1

Air Date: 2015-11-06

Narrated by Meera Syal, it explores the stories behind such iconic hits as House of the Rising Sun, Respect, Tainted Love, I'll Be Missing You and Hallelujah, with contributors including John Cale, Gloria Jones, Marc Almond, Rick Rubin, Faith Evans and British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot.

Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

2015 1 seasons 1 episodes

Overview

The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your own songs. This film challenges and overturns that misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more original than the original.