John Lennon is on the record saying Farnham did a pretty good version of "Help". And of course, Cocker's "With A Little Help from My Friends", Elton's "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds, MJ's "Come Together" and Cheap Trick's "Magical Mystery Tour" are all worthy for consideration. But Zoot is right up there. Would love to have heard McCartney do a cover of Zoot's version of his song, get rid of the orchestral strings and really rock it up. But think even he would have a hard time matching Cotton's vocals.
I like it too, but some of my UK friends hate it... they must feel it threatens the "Beatles Supremacy". Still, I see it as a good cover version - nothing more, nothing less - an a great memory for OzRock. I think captions like "even better than the Beatles" don't help. People then get offended more by the caption than the music.
@@tomtanaka841 I’m not sure about that. Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”, and “Immigrant Song” were both played on AM radio back then. It would have fit right in.✌️
Never gets old, never! This version was played recently at a local pub by the most excellent Australian guitarist Steve Edmonds (& band). I lost my shit and so did the rest of the crowd. Was unexpected but verrry cool. Two big thumbs up! 👍👍
Excellent arrangement, dynamics, riffing, rhythm section and vocals. This is one of the best examples of a rock song. Every section managing to live up to the previous one. Blown away!
Wow just discovered this after hearing Rick Springfield talk about how he had arranged a more metal version of Eleanor Rigby when with the group Zoot and low and behold its bad @$$!
What a watershed band, one of my favorites when I was growing up even when they were Pink. Daryl Cotton one of Australia's best vocalists, the incomprable Bass tones of Beeb Birtles who later went on to fame and fortune with you guy's LRB; Rick Brewer, a brilliant Jazz Drummer and last but by no means least Rick Springfield who has this great love of Modal lines and a freakish talent for turning scales into music !
wow such a great version please check out my version of this timeless classic with a twist thanks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wW21kYCqGe4.html
First time hearing this.........supposedly John Lennon liked their version better than the Beatles. Elinor Rigby is my favorite Beatles song......and this version kicks ass!!! Love it!!!
@@thangdocin5284 I think the Beatles took note of ANY 1 of their songs that were covered by others and released, cos $$$! So they would have checked it out! I agree, John probably WOULD have liked it as he was more the ROCK player than Paul was!
I can't believe how Rick Springfield looks in the concert of ZOOT! WOW! He looks so dam good and very handsome! I love how Rick played his guitar! He was very talented back then and now! 🎤🎸🙏🎚💝💯👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It took two AUSTRALIAN Acts to basically create the two greatest cover versions of Beatles songs of all time. John Farnham's "Help" and Zoot's "Eleanor Rigby". With apologies to Joe, Elton, Jacko and Cheap Trick.
The Beatles original and Zoot's cover go hand in hand in my opinion. The original is infused with the sadness of a "forgotten" death with a hint of the mortality that we all face. Zoot's version is a "laugh in the face" of death and a hoot "invitation" to make the most of life while we still have it! I put them both side by side...not in competition. (Behind both of them the brilliance of Paul McCartney's song writing ability and insight into the the phlegmatic human-condition).
Yes, ZOOT told him to go back to his hotel room and rework the song and that's what he did, That white Gibson SG Rick Springfield is playing also used on Working Class Dog in 1980 and Neil Geraldo Pat Benatar's husband Helped Rick on that Album. Springfield is a Very Underrated Guitar player.
@@DMSProduktions Gene and Paul were watching Slade very closely, their plan was to create a kind of US version of Slade, that's why KIss Alive got it's title. Buffalo was the first Aussie band to play in a style that can be compared to Black Sabbath. Metal was accepted by the hard rock loving OZ audience but in a way boogie ruled the pubs until the early 80s. That was good thing about rock back in those days,we liked it hard and heavy.
I have a vague memory of Zoot doing a version of Itchycoo Park with Rick using Wah Wah in the middle part about “feeding the ducks …”. Does anybody remember it? Or did I get my bands mixed up? Please confirm if you remember it too, thx.
Probably my first memory of local rock music at the tender young age of 7. Super group in the making and I still reckon the best Beatles cover of all time ... and better than the original. Genius arrangement....
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Imagine if these guys stayed together, maybe we missed out some major hits! Songs we would have played forever! Or , Maybe they would have just been mediocre and never famous! Slipping away into mediocrity. Anyways great stuff !
Essa música dos Beatles como muitas outras, é linda. E com o ZOOT ficou melhor ainda. Eles imprimiram um ritmo mais agressivo, o que valorizou a melodia.
I wouldn't call it Heavy Metal, it's late '60s/early '70s psychedelic/progressive/heavy rock, like Moving Sidewalks, Vanilla Fudge, the Who, Deep Purple MK1. In this period bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Mountain were considered Hard Rock, they were much heavier than Zoot
you think the original version of this song was "carbon"??? Most cover versions of any song turn the diamond in carbon. Good cover versions turn a diamond into another diamond, which is at least equally as good, which is what they did in this case.
