Thesixtyone - a music adventure. 30 Fun Indie-Artist Covers of Pop Tunes. Covering a song can be tricky, but covering an extremely well-known song is downright dangerous.
Most pop songs are either deeply loved or grossly hated and attempts to cover either can fall flat. We’ve compiled a list of the greatest pop covers by some of our favorite indie artists (taking liberties with the words “pop” and “indie”).
Listen to Music Online. Lady Gaga takes tea with Mr Fry. An ardent fan – or ‘Little Monster’ – communes with his musical hero at London’s Lanesborough Hotel The Lanesborough Hotel Saturday evening, May 14 2011 It takes quite a bit to excite the staff of The Lanesborough Hotel, one of London’s more self-consciously luxurious five-star residences.
Princes, sultans, presidents, oligarchs and film stars have been coming here ever since the grand but oddly anonymous building on the corner of Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge arose from the ruins of Belgravia’s old St George’s Hospital some 20 years ago. I arrive there by taxi one Saturday night and find myself bundled through a tunnel of polite but harassed doormen into a lobby that, for all the discretion and professional sangfroid of the front-of-house staff, fails to suppress a crackle of excitement that fizzes around the interior like electricity.