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Helen & Paul Weedon
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BDJ's Cellar Full of Remixes
Misery (BDJ Upgrade)
"Misery" was written for Helen Shapiro on 26 January 1963, and later completed at Paul McCartney's Forthlin Road home.This is the official version of things, but wouldn't it be problematic for Helen Shapiro to sing "I'm the kind of guy who never used to cry"? For this reason or another, Shapiro didn't use it and British singer and entertainer Kenny Lynch recorded it instead, thus becoming the first artist to cover a Lennon–McCartney composition. He had only a minor hit with it, though. Kenny Lynch's version of the song put a soulful spin on the pop so...
2014-01-01
01 min