Meanwhile I've remembered the second original! It was Neneh Cherry & Yousou N'dour with Seven Seconds. Only remembered it because I was listening to Love Like Blood's cover version last night. It's on my favourite cover album : Cut's You Up. It's an excellent collection of mainly gothic metal related bands doing 80's pop tunes. My beloved Sympathy for the Devil by Tiamat is on there as well as Paradise Lost doing Sisters of Mercy and Moonspell doing Depeche Mode. Only Cradle of Filth (Iron Maiden's Hallowed Be Thy Name) and Death (Judas Priest's Painkiller) don't really fit the general mood of the album, but are great songs nonetheless.

This morning I heard Adamski on the radio. His song Killer, with Seal doing the vocals, provides an interesting angle. Is it a cover of the Temptations' Papa Was a Rolling Stone? The bassline is quite obviously the same, but that's where the similarity stops. Wouldn't describe this as a cover, but things went complicated when George Michael took Killer's bassline and Papa Was a Rolling Stone to create Killer/Papa Was a Rolling Stone. Now this is obviously intended as a double cover, but with Killer's bassline effectively already taken from Papa... I'd say it leaves us with only a cover of Papa Was a Rolling Stone.