It’s amazing that an artist with a discography as extensive as Prince‘s found time to cover anyone else’s songs. But when the Artist did, it was magical.
Prince often had a strange relationship with the artists he covered. (Except Sheryl Crow. It seems like those two were cool.) Since this is Prince we’re talking about, few of those songs can be found online — but many appear on his collection of studio outtakes, The Work.
Here are six songs forever changed by Prince’s touch.
“Creep” by Radiohead
Prince covered “Creep” at Coachella in 2008, then proceeded to have all footage of the performance removed from the Internet — which Thom Yorke pointed out he didn’t have any legal right to do. Read more…
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