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CMU Approved
Approved: Shane MacGowan & Friends – I Put A Spell On You
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 1 March 2010
It’s one thing to be able to get a load of musicians into a studio to record a collaborative charity single, but it’s quite another to come up with something good. And Lord alone knows how difficult it must be to do all that and be Shane MacGowan at the same time. But, my, has he risen to the challenge and come up with something quite brilliant.
Recorded to raise money for the work of Dublin-based charity Concern in Haiti, and with a line-up featuring Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Paloma Faith and more, MacGowan chose to cover ‘I Put A Spell On You’ because he has always felt was a modern day “hymn for hope and love”. Also, its writer, Screamin Jay Hawkins, died ten years to the day that the earthquake which devastated Haiti hit earlier this year.
The song will be available as a download from Sunday. You can pre-order it from 7digital or by texting SPELL (all in capitals) to 78789 (the text cost £1.50). In the meantime, watch the video at the link below.
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