Bohemian Rhapsody as sung by the muppets
Gotta love the muppets. Just gotta. This new video is an excellent execution (me me me me) and features over 70 muppets - many of the old favourites. Spotted over on Chris Hardwick’s blog.
Gotta love the muppets. Just gotta. This new video is an excellent execution (me me me me) and features over 70 muppets - many of the old favourites. Spotted over on Chris Hardwick’s blog.
It’s been one of my favourite covers since being introduced to the “In My Life: George Martin” album. The whole album, from Goldie Hawn‘s Hard Day’s Night to Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin covering Come Together and even Billy Connolly‘s Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite is constantly on my iPod but I think it’s this cover of I am the Walrus that I love the most. The song itself, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was in The Beatles’ 1967 television film and album Magical Mystery Tour, and was the B-side to their number 1 hit Hello, Goodbye. The story of the song from Wikipedia is quite interesting: The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines “Mis-ter … There’s more
Remember Darren raving about this song? If like me you wondered why the song seems so familiar (and it does), it could be because you’ve heard it before… David Brent in The Office (episode 4, season 1) singing Freelove Freeway vs Mika’s We are Golden, via the detective work of Edward Stove: Here’s the original: Holy Moly thinks it’s got some Heaven is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle and Jason Donovan’s ‘Too Many Broken Hearts‘ in there too. What do you reckon?
Just the way Johnny Cash would have wanted it: How else but by an adorable five year old called Wesley? Here he is at the 2009 Spring Coffee Shop Jam, at The Columbia City Theater in Seattle. Want more cuteness? Here he is doing the “Hokey Pokey”.