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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

Air Date: 11/6/2015

Imdb: tt5181560

Popularity: 1.41

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Last Aired: 11/6/2015 12:00:00AM

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Status: Ended

Seasons: 1 - Info

Networks: BBC Four

Overview: The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your own songs. This film challenges and overturns that misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more original than the original.