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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

Name: Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Meera Syal

★0.0 2015 1 Season TV-MA

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.

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Seasons & episodes

1 season · 1 episodes

Episode 01

Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

Nov 6, 2015

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.

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Synopsis

Documentary

Cast

1 principal cast

Meera Syal

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