Original Artist: The Beatles
Cover Version by: Regina Spektor
What?! Another Beatles song? Well, the problem is, they have too many songs to admire at and there is a fabulous cover version for this number.
This song was written and and recorded by John Lennon on a cassette tape around 1977 - 1980, there are other songs in that tape including Free as a Bird. In 1994, and thanks God it happened, Yoko Ono gave the tape to the remaining off members The Beatles. In early 1995 Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reworked on those songs, which finally released in Anthology 2.
Apart from the controversy for not being included in the chart of BBC Radio 1 (initially) which made McCartney really annoyed so he wrote an 800 words article in The Daily Mirror, this song is actually magnificent. Lennon's voice is so beautiful, maybe not technically but emotionally, maybe because he recorded the song himself when he was really "in" for that song. And the other remaining members of the Fab Four did a great work in making a great music arrangement to accommodate the song.
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She had released six albums up till now. Her music refers to and is influenced by wide variation of music; folk, punk, rock, jazz, hip hop, and classical music. Her voice and piano skill is extraordinary and she knows it and really uses it.
In covering Real Love, Regina Spektor didn't do too many changes in the song, but it still sounds "Regina-esque". (You'll know what I men if you ever listen to her hits such as Fidelity, Us, Edit, or any of her song.) In her piano-only cover version, the loneliness pictured in the lyrics is more apparent. And it's so gorgeous.
This song was written and and recorded by John Lennon on a cassette tape around 1977 - 1980, there are other songs in that tape including Free as a Bird. In 1994, and thanks God it happened, Yoko Ono gave the tape to the remaining off members The Beatles. In early 1995 Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reworked on those songs, which finally released in Anthology 2.
Apart from the controversy for not being included in the chart of BBC Radio 1 (initially) which made McCartney really annoyed so he wrote an 800 words article in The Daily Mirror, this song is actually magnificent. Lennon's voice is so beautiful, maybe not technically but emotionally, maybe because he recorded the song himself when he was really "in" for that song. And the other remaining members of the Fab Four did a great work in making a great music arrangement to accommodate the song.
The Beatles
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She had released six albums up till now. Her music refers to and is influenced by wide variation of music; folk, punk, rock, jazz, hip hop, and classical music. Her voice and piano skill is extraordinary and she knows it and really uses it.
In covering Real Love, Regina Spektor didn't do too many changes in the song, but it still sounds "Regina-esque". (You'll know what I men if you ever listen to her hits such as Fidelity, Us, Edit, or any of her song.) In her piano-only cover version, the loneliness pictured in the lyrics is more apparent. And it's so gorgeous.
Regina Spektor
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