Do we know whether the said financial recompense has been paid, and as a licence payer, I would like to know exactly how much money was paid.
I hope the BBC got all those artists for nothing because if they paid them I would think that will be one of the most expensive and pointless adverts ever.
I love the way that the media has conditioned so many people to the default position of Must Bash The BBC At Every Possible Opportunity
Relax - it's a charity single - the artists have donated their time - it'll raise a lot of money for Children In Need (and probably sell more copies to a wider demographic than the usual McFly/ Girls Aloud pap that they tend to release for CiN).
Irk the purists ...
If youve never, then you ought
Surely it is your sainted Brian Wilson who has allowed one of the average songs on 'Pet Sounds' to be bowdlerised. He co-wrote it after all. If he didn't want it to be used for charitable purposes (all artists appearing without a fee) then, as a copyright holder, he was free to say no.
That it introduces Beach Boys' music to a new audience, which will make some dosh for Brian Wilson, will be a handy side effect for him in allowing the bowdlerisation. 'Pet Sounds' and the original 'God Only Knows' single have seen a healthy increase in downloads this past week.
True - but some people have to find an angle to complain about the BBC, even though Brian Wilson is letting them use "his" song. As you say, he'll probably see a few more people introduced to his back catalogue as a reasult
Thousands of cover versions of old songs are released every year - I have probably hundreds of cover versions in my own music collection - and few of them compare favourably to the original, but it really doesn't matter: their existence doesn't in any way diminish the power of the original version.
True.
I'm old enough to remember when a cover version was a rarity. Nowadays, with the rise of "covers bands" and "tribute acts", X-Factor getting people to murder some existing song, Radio One Live Lounge, singers wanting to be seen as "artists" capable of tackling different genres and not wanting to be pigeon-holed, since Mad World made Christmas Number One in 2003... almost everyone has released at least one cover...
...some are interesting takes in a different style, some add nothing new, some at least show that the (new) artist has a more interesting background than I maybe gave them credit for - they generally do no harm.
I don't know about the multiple voices of this God Only Knows version, as I always thought that the original was a very personal song (a beautiful one), rather than what feels like a music version of ISIHAC's Cheddar Gorge.
