WHEN KING CRIMSON PROPOSED A VERSION OF HOLST’S THE PLANETS FOR THEIR WAKE OF POSEIDON ALBUM, THE GREAT MAN’S ESTATE REFUSED, SAYING: “WE DON’T WANT LONG-HAIRED ROCK & ROLLERS TAMPERING WITH THE MASTER’S MUSIC”. OTHER COMPOSERS WEREN’T QUITE SO FORTUNATE…
1 B.BUMBLE & THE STINGERS-NUT ROCKER (TCHAIKOVSKY)
2 FABULOUS FLEE-REKKERS-GREEN JEANS (ANON)
3 COUGERS-SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DUCKPOND (TCHAIKOVSKY)
4 KENNY BALL’S JAZZBAND-RONDO (MOZART)
5 JOHN BUNYAN’S PROGRESSIVE PILGRIMS-MOZART’S DILLEMA
6 PETER JAY & THE JAYWALKERS-POET & PEASANT (SUPPE)
7 PEGGY’S LEG-SABRE DANCE (KHACHATURIAN)
8 DAVE EDMUNDS & LOVE SCULPTURE-FARANDOLE (BIZET)
9 THE PLAYERS-BIZET AS IT MAY
10 ANDY MACKAY-RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES (WAGNER)
11 BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY-PAVANE (FAURE)
12 COLOSSEUM-BOLERO (RAVEL)
13 SOUNDS INCORPORATED-WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (ROSSINI)
14 LANCASTERS-SATAN’S HOLIDAY (GRIEG)
15 LAURIE JOHNSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA-IN A PERSIAN MARKET (KETELBEY)
16 JETHRO TULL-BOUREE (JS BACH)
17 EGG-FUGUE IN D MINOR (JS BACH)
18 RICK WAKEMAN-CANS AND BRAHMS
19 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER-HOEDOWN (COPELAND)
20 ROBERT WYATT-5 BLACK NOTES AND 1 WHITE NOTE (OFFENBACH)
21 LEO KOTTKE-JESU JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING (BACH)
22 PETE SEEGER-ODE TO JOY (BEETHOVEN)