A tribute music video of William Shatner's version of "Common People" from the album, "Has Been." The footage is not owned by me and the footage was reused from a William Shatner production.
I discovered this track about 12 years ago and instantly fell in love with it. It’s got the highest play count in my music library and is the best and only version of the song!
The album is _William Shatner Has Been_ and I second Tim's recommendation. I have no idea how we live in a universe where William Shatner makes great music albums, but we do and we must accept and enjoy the fact.
You know, Shatner is usually eye-roll inducing, but this song as peformed is simply great to the point where it nearly brings me to tears....kudos to Joe Jackson for making it work.
@@kevinbortz2854 Ben Folds produced it. Shatner sings with Joe Jackson. But to your point, yeah, I guess it's debatable who or what makes this work so well. I wasn't aware that Folds produced it and thanks for the nudge to look that up.
Exactly! I knew that it's Joe Jackson (still looking smooth!), but I did not know of Folds' part The two of them, and Shatner of course, created a hilarious, and epic, cover!
P.S. If you want to hear the epitome of Shatner over-the-top, look for his version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds "It's a GIRL!" (as if he just discovered the only surviving human left alive on a far-flung space station after an interstellar attack) Evidently, when he was with friends, Captain Kirk enjoyed peyote, out in the desert, and...
@sspaay its fag, google it: "Fag or FAG may refer to: FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group. Cigarette, in British and Australian slang." Yeah, its a slang term. Wake up sunshine!
The man, the legend, the captain my captain, William shatner my favourite actor, this was exceptionally interesting, the audience looked enthusiastic, guess they was tired from all the applause William got when he beamed down...😂
Shatner just took Pulp and added "THE MOD" legitimacy to it. I close my eyes and see this in a coffee house in in 1967, in Toronto - Kensington Village maybe - and Shatner is "SHATNER" from 1967 fronting this. It just seems more right.
