The 1975 covered Take That‘s 1992 single ‘A Million Love Songs’ in the Live Lounge today (October 11) – check out the video below.Matty Healy and co.
recorded a special session for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge Month ahead of releasing their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, this Friday (October 14).To begin, The 1975 played their recent single ‘I’m In Love With You’.
For the band’s version of ‘A Million Love Songs’, Healy’s vocals were accompanied only by a delicate piano arrangement.“It’s funny that, isn’t it?” Healy said when asked about ’75’s choice of cover. “I’d have loved to have done something like what you’d normally do… like a Taylor Swift [song] or a Harry Styles or a Ariana Grande or someone like that – someone who’s really happening right now.“But I think the only song that I’d heard in ages where I thought, ‘You know what?
If Donny Hathaway had said that, or Al Green had said that…’. I’d be like, ‘Woah – that’s really legit.“Not to shade Gary Barlow; I love Gary Barlow as a songwriter.
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