Sing a song for you
Version originale : Tim Buckley, 1968
Reprise par Radiohead : 11 juillet 1993 (radio Live 105, Ã San Francisco.)
Nouvelle reprise : 27 août 1994 (Reading)
Troisième reprise : 10 novembre 1997 (Hannovre)
La chanson est une reprise : de Tim Buckley que l’on peut entendre en version originale sur l’album Happy Sad (1968)
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 30 mars 1993[/button]
Au départ, il y a peut-être eu l’idée soumise par un présentateur radio israélien :
[quote cite=”Colin & Thom” cite=”Radio Galei Tzahal, 30 mars 1993″]Interviewer: “OK! so we move to…you chose a few songs…by other artists. (yeah…)
Interviewer: “and the first is very sad…
Colin: “yeah! The first song is Tim Buckley and it’s really good, and he recorded the session in the BBC Radio 1, and ????????? on a Saturday night, and you should listen to it, it sounds really like ?????? playing, but it’s like, it’s really nice feel, and it’s just a really nice song.
Interviewer: “[HEB] from what I could figure out, he was saying that it’s a Tim Buckley song that was recorded at the John Peel sessions at the BBC, and it’s a really nice song and it has a beautiful atmosphere. It’s called- “Sing a Song for you” [ENG] it wasn’t released on any albums…
Thom: “I’ve never found it anywhere else um…yeah…
Interviewer: “[HEB] It’s a song that appears only in this version we’ll listen to right now. [ENG] April ’69! [Song is played]
Interviewer: “[HEB] That was lovely. [ENG] great song! (hmm, yeah)
Interviewer: “and I saw Thom singing with Tim Buckley…
Thom: “oh yeah…
Interviewer: “the question is, are you singing any covers on your show? [/quote]
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 11 juillet 1993 [/button]
Radiohead interprète une reprise de la chanson, pour la première fois, sur la radio Live 105, à San Francisco.
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 14 juillet 1993 [/button]
Dans le Melody Maker, quand on lui demanda ce qu’il écoutait, Thom citait l’album “Happy Sad” en premier. L’article étant préparé un peu en avance, il est probable qu’il ait cité ce titre car il devait déjà penser à une reprise (jouée le 11 juillet).
Un autre papier du 16 août va dans ce sens :
[quote cite=”Thom Yorke / The Island-Ear”]What music do you listen to?
Oh, I’ve got three cases of music I’m currently going through. I guess if I had to pick three they would be Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures, Nick Drake and James Brown because you’ve got to have a good groove. We did a radio show in Israel and we were asked what we’d like to play and it was like Joy Division, Tim Buckley, American Music Club. It was like the dirge hour.
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[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 27 août 1994 [/button]
La chanson est reprise une troisième fois, lors du festival de Reading, a capella :
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 1997 [/button]
Le 10 novembre 1997, Thom l’a chantée une dernière fois, lors d’un concert à Hannovre.
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