I was in Dublin over the weekend, so when Rebecca Ferguson sang Make You Feel My Love on Saturday's X Factor, I was raising a glass to James on his birthday in Peploe's - or maybe it was Shanahan's.
Make You Feel My Love is a Bob song for people who don't like Bob. The lyrics are glib; the melody is schmaltzy; and the whole is even less than the sum of its parts.
I hate it.
But then I was sent this YouTube link. Rebecca Ferguson performs it superbly. She makes it a better song than it really is. She sings it better than Adele. And yeh, better than Bob.
Last time I said that, Jimi had just released All Along the Watchtower.
Check it out below - X Factor don't allow embedding but you should be able to scroll to the clip once you've clicked on play.
Make You Feel My Love is a Bob song for people who don't like Bob. The lyrics are glib; the melody is schmaltzy; and the whole is even less than the sum of its parts.
I hate it.
But then I was sent this YouTube link. Rebecca Ferguson performs it superbly. She makes it a better song than it really is. She sings it better than Adele. And yeh, better than Bob.
Last time I said that, Jimi had just released All Along the Watchtower.
Check it out below - X Factor don't allow embedding but you should be able to scroll to the clip once you've clicked on play.
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