The Headmaster Ritual
Version originale : février 1985 (The Smiths / album « Meat is Murder »)
reprise de la chanson par Radiohead : 10 novembre 2007
février 1985
Sortie de l’album “Meat Is Murder”, des Smiths, avec la chanson “The Headmaster Ritual”. L’album est engagé, avec le titre éponyme qui prône le végétarisme (Morrissey a interdit aux autres membres du groupe de se faire photographier mangeant de la viande), et deux chansons contre les châtiments corporels, dont “The Headmaster Ritual”)
10 novembre 2007Le groupe diffuse à destination de ses fans une webcast avec une reprise de la chanson :
You did a couple of covers, The Headmaster Ritual [by The Smiths] and Ceremony [by New Order] I think, how did you decide which to do?
Yeah, our Manchester section really, wasn’t it? It’s funny because when we were at school, we never really played covers. It’s something that we’ve not done an awful lot of either, at any point. We’ve always kind of worked on original material. So to come back at this point and just go in and work on these songs which we’ve all really loved at some point and seeing if we can pull them off… we enjoyed doing those versions of them.
Yeah, our Manchester section really, wasn’t it? It’s funny because when we were at school, we never really played covers. It’s something that we’ve not done an awful lot of either, at any point. We’ve always kind of worked on original material. So to come back at this point and just go in and work on these songs which we’ve all really loved at some point and seeing if we can pull them off… we enjoyed doing those versions of them.
— Thom Yorke / Analogue, 6 février 2008
Ca prendra un peu de temps, mais en 2012, Johnny Marr va déclarer qu’il a trouvé la version très bien :
I loved Radiohead’s version of ‘The Headmaster Ritual’. It’s not an easy song to do.
— Uncut, janvier 2012
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