Get out your Sabre, cut up some Rock, what do you get?
Love Sculpture!
24/05/2015
In the world of covers of a Classical piece by a Rock act,
before ELO, before ELP, in 1967 there was Love Sculpture, featuring guitarist Dave Edmunds with an electric and electrifying version of Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance.” TURN IT UP! |
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For those who've not heard the original.
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Love Sculpture above brought to mind another fast & furious number from 1969
Gun - Race With the Devil
Gun - Race With the Devil
Some other early Rock/Rock n Roll classical covers I recall were:
- Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee
- done as "Bumble Boogie" by B. Bumble and The Stingers (1961)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King from Greig's Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46
- done by Nero & The Gladiators(1961)
- March from Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker
- done as "Nut Rocker" by B. Bumble and The Stingers (1962)
- Bourrée from J. S. Bach's Suite in E Minor for Lute (BWV996)
- done by Jethro Tull on the album Stand Up (1969)