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Review: The late Chris Cornell shines on an album of covers
This cover image released by UMe shows No One Sings Like You Anymore by Chris Cornell. (UMe via AP)
Published December 23. 2020 6:59AM
By MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email
Chris Cornell, “No One Sings Like You Anymore (UMe)
No disrespect to Sinead O’Connor, but there s another version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” that might be even better than the one the Irish singer delivered. That would be the cover by Chris Cornell, which is ragged with heartbreak.
It s the highlight of “No One Sings Like You Anymore,” a batch of 10 covers that the leader of Soundgarden and Audioslave recorded in 2016, a year before his death. Included are tunes originally made famous by giants like Janis Joplin and John Lennon.
Bono and the Edge of
U2 joined forces with Glen Hansard and other musicians for a live rendition of Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on a holiday episode of Ireland’s
Late Late Show on Friday night (December 18).
The show was a celebration of the annual Christmas Eve busking gigs on Dublin’s Grafton Street, inaugurated by Hansard a decade ago in aid of homeless charities in the city. It opened with Danny O’Reilly of the Coronas and Steve Garrigan of Kodaline combining on Mic Christopher’s “Heyday.”
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The special also featured Shane MacGowan, John Sheahan of the Dubliners, Finbar Furey, Lisa O’Neill, and Vivienne Long performing “Raglan Road,” with Imelda May joining via Zoom. Hansard and Philip Powell, who was himself homeless for 20 years, covered
Rolling Stone. Connecting it to McCartney’s storied 1971 LP and to
Taylor Swift’s new record, he says: “It’s basically
Ram meets
Folklore.” The review notes that Paul has “never wanted to settle for being a nostalgia artist – that’s always set him apart from his generational peers. He takes pride in moving forward.”
Fans can now also enjoy an all-new, 13-minute edition of the
YouTube Originals series
Released, in which the former
Beatle talks about the record with comedian-actor Chris Rock. In the show, McCartney discussed how he made it at home during “rockdown.”
“On this album,” he tells Rock, “I was writing a song and it suddenly got very Beatley. So I’m questioning myself, ‘should I not go down this route? It’s going to be too like a Beatles song.’ You have a little mini-argument with yourself, you say ‘Look. Just write it’…it’s called ‘Seize The Day,’ and it’s Beatley, but The Beatles don’t exist anymore, Chris. T
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