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ProfessorGAC

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3. Covered That Song

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Jul 10, 2025, 05:28 PM

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For probably 10 years, it was somewhere on the setlist.
We had different harmonies than the record, though.
Kerr was married to Chrissie Hynde at the time and she was instrumental in convincing him to record someone else's song.

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