McCartney Times

One of the strangest things about being an artist must be hearing other people sing your songs. Especially when music is so often deeply personal, and when it appears as a true and specific representation of a person’s creative mind and inner world, hearing it translated by someone else must be an odd experience. Sometimes, it’s a bad one as some artists have been quick to critique covers of their work, but John Lennon never felt that especially loving one take on a Beatles track.When a person’s music really is the ultimate product of their mind, soul, talent, and skill, hearing someone butcher it must be devastating. Tom Waits called the Eagles’ cover of ‘Ol’ 55’ “antiseptic,” John Lydon called Mötley Crüe’s attempt at ‘Anarchy In The UK’ “hilarious,” and Billy Joel once hated Helen Reddy’s cover of ‘You’re My Home’ so much that he genuinely made her promise never to touch his music again.

Source: The Beatles cover that John Lennon loved more than any other