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Christopher Lee releases birthday metal EP, because why not?
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 28 May 2014
So cool-and-sinister (pretend) wizard Christopher Lee likes to moonlight as a kind of operatic rockstar. That’s just a fact of life. One of the strangest and most enduringly true of all.
Lee this week celebrated his 92nd year on the planet by releasing a mini-LP titled ‘Metal Knight’, featuring heavy metal remakes of ‘The Impossible Dream’, Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’, and some songs off of ‘Man Of La Mancha’ (the Broadway stage adaptation of ‘Don Quixote’), each of which he seems to have approached as if it’s a part in a play or film.
Or that’s what I took from watching this clip, in which he talks long and hard about each track, and what it means to him. And by long and hard, I mainly mean long. Shouts to whomsoever edited the trailer, which is watchable, highly so, here: