ORIGINAL VERSUS COVER: PART SEVEN, JEALOUS GUY
John Lennon: Here is my next post in the series in which I'll argue that the cover is better than the original version of the song. This time I'm going to compare John Lennon's original version and Roxy Music's cover version of the song, Jealous Guy . Jealous Guy was written by John Lennon; the song was not initially released as a single but appeared on his Imagine album released in 1971. John Lennon said that the song was about his possessiveness of his wife, Yoko Ono, but a few music critics have suggested the song was also about his jealousy of Paul McCartney who was idolised more than John Lennon during The Beatles' years. John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band's Jealous Guy (not John Lennon's original version): Following John Lennon's murder outside his New York home on 8 December 1980, Roxy Music added a cover of his Jealous Guy song to their set while touring Germany. The band later recorded the song and released it as a single in February 1981....