After taking to Twitter to ask what covers they should perform, The Magic Gang have shared their first in this new self-isolation series, unveiling an actually very fab cover of Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’!
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4Ever Songs: DAF ‘Dear Mussolini’
The early 80s was a golden age for pop duos: OMD, Soft Cell, Associates, Tears for Fears, Blancmange, Yazoo, Cabaret Voltaire, Wham! With their homoerotic image and Nazi-baiting lyrics, Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl were synth-disco rebels bent on pulverising the rulebook.
DAF (standing for Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, which means German-American Friendship) actually started out in Düsseldorf. Only with their third album, 1981’s Alles Ist Gut, did they cement their identity as an electronic duo.
Best Covers: Lucy Dacus ‘Last Christmas’
Lucy Dacus shared her cover of Wham’s “Last Christmas.” The track appears on the singer-songwriter’s new covers EP, 2019. The EP collects a series of holiday-inspired covers Dacus released throughout the year.
Best Covers: Pale Waves ‘Last Christmas’
Recorded at London’s Metropolis Studios, Pale Waves have released a cover of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ as part of the Spotify’s Singles series. However, it’s quite different from the original.
The cover sees the quartet bringing their trademark darker brand of goth pop. It’s one of the first new releases since they dropped debut album My Mind Makes Noises.
Mor George Michael
El cantant Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, més conegut com George Michael, ha mort avui als 53 anys. La seva mort és deguda a causes naturals, segons ha informat la policia
L’artista inicià la seva carrera musical amb els Wham! els anys vuitanta per més tard continuar com solista durant les últimes dècades. En el seu ampli i exitós repertori, hi destaquen cançons com Careless Whisper, Faith o Last Christmas. Abans de la seva mort havia vengut més de cen milions de discos. La mort de George Michael s’afageix a la lista d’artistes importants que han mort enguany incloent a David Bowie, Leonard Cohen o Prince.
Les versions d’il Dottore: Future Islands “Last Christmas”
Il Dottore s’ha impregnat de l’atmosfera de Nadal i ens porta una nadala. Una versió súper recent feta pels Future Islands que han optat per escollir la cançó dels Future Islands“Last Christmas” Molt adient per aquestes dates l’equip de Ville à Dômat us desitja a tots unes bones festes.
Ville à Dômat 