Dave Gahan is not the first rock singer to indulge in the risky exercise of the standards cover album.
And even if they are not strictly limited to the Great American Songbook, the songs he covers all have the feel of classical.
He interprets them in any case with the same type of commitment.
Thanks be to Bryan Ferry.
The singer of the avant-garde pop group Roxy Music did not wait long before lending his beautiful bass to covers as early as 1974, an exercise he repeated with success, until the triumph of the album
As Time. Goes By
, in 1999.
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Meter standard of the genre, this natural crooner has encouraged many other singers to indulge in the exercise, with varying fortunes.
Iggy Pop, apostle of feverish and wild rock, excels in a more calm register, which he has done regularly since
In The Death Car
, in 1993. Rod Stewart,
lad
among the
lads
, has devoted no less than five consecutive albums to the pearls of jazz.
Too bad this outstanding performer
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