Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.\u201cWhy do we need to hear another cover of a song someone else did?\u201d Prince told Billboard in 2013, referencing the Maroon 5 cover. \u201cArt is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what\u2019s already there.\u201dThere are two points worth noting here. The first is that Maroon 5\u2019s version is certainly not a paint-by-numbers reproduction of the original. It\u2019s closer to the kind of all-star jams that feature on Jools Holland\u2019s Annual Hootenanny broadcast on the BBC each New Year: a big-band swing version, complete with call-and-response vocals and endless solos, and stretched out to seven minutes. If the purpose of a cover is to change the song, they certainly did that.The second point is that \u201cKiss\u201d itself did not emerge as a perfectly formed Prince original: it was the result of successive rebuildings on his original foundations. He recorded a demo of the song at Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood, on April 27 1985, played on acoustic guitar, his voice in its normal register rather than falsetto. It sounds more like a country blues than stripped-back funk. And then he gave the demo away.Let us know your memories of \u2018Kiss\u2019 in the comments section belowThe paperback edition of \u2018The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world\u2019s best-loved songs\u2019, edited by David Cheal and Jan Dalley, is published by ChambersMusic credits: NPG; Virgin; China; Beeswing; Sabrina Salerno; Love Positions\/Half A Cow\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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