He recently recalled, “To this day, I’ve never heard better rock guitar playing on an R&B record. When he heard the record, Eric Clapton was knocked out. Sticking with US R&B acts, Wilson Pickett’s 1969 cover of ‘Hey Jude’ was an exercise in the seemingly impossible – how do you improve on perfection? Pickett enlisted an unknown young gunslinger named Duane Allman to play guitar on the track, which, on top of a brassy arrangement and Pickett’s screaming vocals, was the sweetest icing on a very rich cake. In the end, we plumped for the former, but both are well worthy. Ray Charles tackled more than Beatles cover in his time, and it was a tough call to pick between his version of ‘Yesterday’ or ‘Eleanor Rigby’. Prince came from a long line of eccentric rock geniuses, and part of how he honored them was by forcing even the most obtuse listener to understand that rock was, and always has been, black music.The Beatles loved American R&B, and much of their pre-fame setlist comprised music by Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander and countless other black American artists having their songs covered by such artists was always a thrill back in the 60s. What is “ Little Red Corvette,” anyway? Motown confection? Power ballad? New-wave Marc Bolan tribute via Stevie Wonder? The artist sometimes formerly known as a symbol made it impossible for you to label him, and did so in part by insisting that the incredibly wide range of music he loved wasn’t so easily labeled either. Listening to a Prince album, even the dullest rock critic couldn’t help notice that nothing went in the box it was supposed to. Part of Prince’s genius was that he made it so obvious that the line between “white music” and “black music” was meaningless. But so did the careers, influences, and collaborators of Sly Stone, Patti Labelle, Brandy, Etta James, Sonny and Linda Sharrock, Bill Withers, Ray Charles, Valerie June, DAWN. Prince’s career, influences, and collaborators scrambled expectations for who an R&B artist should be listening to, and what an R&B artist should sound like. “Crossing over” is a particularly bad way to describe black artists who enjoy rock music. Also, it wasn’t long before other artists, black and white, were covering Beatles songs. Released Janu 2017 EarDrummers, Interscope, DCCM. The popularity of Motown acts and other black artists grew, and in the 1960’s Top 40 stations played a greater mix of music than ever before. Alongside Jimi Hendrix, and probably ahead of Chuck Berry, Prince is the world’s most recognizable black rock performer, celebrated both for his blistering guitar playing and his eclectic ability to mix white styles of rock with R&B influences. Black Beatles - Single Death Come Cover Me & DCCM Rock 2017 Play Shuffle. Innocence, grit, transcendence, joy, borderline nonsense lyrics-what could be more rock and roll?Ĭalling Prince a rock artist is not controversial. Switzerland’s industrial black metal force SAMAEL are back with a brand new music video for their cover version of The Beatles Helter Skelter. “Paisley Park is in your heart,” he declares, but the music insists it’s also in your groin. The tune toddles and hops along in a fruity McCartneyesque vein while Prince’s guitar growls and snarls. It’s a retro-60s hippie rock concept statement, in which Prince swaggers up and declares, “I can be a weirder fey psychedelic badass mushroom than you, Paul McCartney.” The dreamy single “Paisley Park” is one of most unique takes on rock’s synthesis of lust and the children’s song ever recorded. That’s part of why Around the World in a Day (1985) is my favorite of his albums. Black performers rarely get labeled as rock stars, but there’s no question that Prince was one.
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