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And so we kick off 2011 with the first track on the second disc and, er, it's Paul Young doing a cover version again. Indeed this is the highest-charting reading of the song in the UK, and can just about claim to be Neil Finn's first Top 20 hit as a writer, arriving in that part of the chart a fortnight before Crowded House's own version of 'Fall At Your Feet'.
Even though I'm writing this back in 2010 and without the effect of alcohol, I'm going to be kind here and note that this actually a decent enough version of the song. It does suffer from a certain amount of over-production but then so did the original, and Young obviously did like the song enough to have sung it at the Nelson Mandela concert in 1988 (in preference to promoting one of his own singles, to his credit). Personally I still prefer Finn's voice and he gets some bonus points for doing it first, at least in the sense that Young doesn't add much. But this is pretty good by his standards.
Also appearing on: Now 1, 5
Available on: From Time to Time: the Singles Collection
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