Interview Innerworld
w interview innerWORLD What drives artists like Ray Char- les with Nathalie Cole or Celine Dion (both in 2004) or Bette Mid- dler (2005) to record their versions of Fever - a song that was already covered by just about everybo- dy in the music business - from Kari Nevalainen Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee, James “Never know how much I love you Brown, Buddy Guy, The Doors, El- vis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Nina Never know how much I care Hagen, Madonna, Bill Wyman, Shirley Horn, Chaka Khan, Greatful When you put your arms around me Dead, The Jam, The Neville Brot- hers, Tom Jones, Amanda Lear, I get a fever that’s so hard to bear Tina Turner, Isaac Hayes, Boney m., Suzy Quatro, Eno, T-bone Wal- You give me …” ker, David Cassidy, Quincy Jones, Bobby blue bland, Sonny Stitt, Sa- rah Vaughan, Herbie Mann, Ken- ny Burrell or Jimmy Smith - just to name a few? Did they all think that Christian Rintelen: the fi nal, the ultimate version of fever has not yet been recorded? And why does a plethora of les- ser-known musicians believe they IWA: Fever’s been subject to count- CR: What an easy question to start with could actually really improve the less cover songs, but it’s not in Top 10, … ! Believe me, if I knew how to make a work of the great artists named many Beatles songs e.g. being cove- hit out of a song — I’d certainly not tell above - and risk to fail miserably? red even more frequently. Would you you, or anybody else! It’s well known, FEVER specialist Christian say that the popularity of Fever is of that today, hits are made.
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