DELTA’S DAWN: HOW MERCURY REV CAME TO LOVE, AND COVER, BOBBIE GENTRY: INTERVIEW
If it were true that you don’t mess with perfection then there would be several careers – and hello to you Michael Bolton, Human Nature, anyone involved with Glee, and that’s just off the top of my head – which would still be back in music school. Messing with perfection, or at least taking another run at some great songs and trying to if not improve on, then at least recontextualise them, is part of the DNA of popular music. Still, it is a brave bunch who think to themselves