FT Arts
Summary: Each week the arts podcast brings you interviews and studio discussions on the latest arts stories and cultural trends, with contributions from the FT’s roster of critics and commentators. You can find more arts news and reviews from the Financial Times on our website and listen to more episodes of FT Arts on iTunes, Stitcher, Audioboom or Soundcloud.
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From a heavy metal hit to a soundtrack in the infamous Abu Ghraib tortures playlist, Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ strikes some sinister chords with Ludovic Hunter-Tilney. Credit: Elektra
From Billy Paul’s adulterous original in 1972 to Amy Winehouse's gender-bending twist on the song 30 years later, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gets to grips with 'Me and Mrs Jones'. Credits: Philadelphia International, 143, Island
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney looks at 'It's the Hard Knock Life' from Broadway's musical Annie and its influences on Katy Perry's 'Roar' and Jay-Z's 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)'. Credits:Columbia,Roc-A-Fella, Columbia
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney reveals the Old Testament legacy in popular music: from Robbie Williams' 'Kiss me' to Perry Como's 'Song of Songs' and Kate Bush's 'The Song of Solomon'. Credits:Chrysalis, Noble And Brite, RCA Victor
The life of a song: Ludovic Hunter-Tilney uncovers the back story of Vanilla Ice’s hit Ice Ice Baby. Credits:Ultra, EMI
David Cheal tells the tale of the Burt Bacharach penned classic “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself”, from the 1964 soul of Dusty Springfield to its 2001 raw-rock treatment by The White Stripes. Credits: Philips, Stiff, Elephant
David Cheal traces the journey of ‘Guantanamera’, from a 19th-century Cuban national hero to a 21st-century recycling campaign, via Celia Cruz and the peace movement of the 1960s. Credits: RCA Victor, Bravo Hit, Universal Music AB, Columbia
David Cheal traces the story of Randy Newman’s ‘Baltimore’, named after the tough US town. A kaleidoscope of covers includes reggae versions by Nina Simone and The Tamlins, and Billy Mackenzie’s impressionistic cover. Credits: CTI, Warner Bros., EMI
The anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber discusses both the stupidity and secret joys of bureaucracy with the FT's Martin Sandbu and Lucy Kellaway
David Cheal explores the origins of I’m a Believer hit popularised recently by 2001 Shrek movie: from Neil Diamond’s initial rendition of the song for The Monkees in 1966 to Robert Wyatt’s cover and Diamond’s own repossession of the song in his 2008 Dreams album. Credits: Colgems, Virgin, Interscope, Sony Music
From recordings by Memphis Minnie and Led Zeppelin to sampling by Dr Dre, Eminem and Massive Attack, David Cheal traces the various incarnations of ‘When the Levee Breaks’. Credits: Columbia, Atlantic, The Chronic Interscope
In the first of a new series, David Cheal looks at the song covered by artists from Brenda Lee to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson to the Pet Shop Boys
Greek culture taught the rest of us how to live ‑ and it’s not time to write off that particular debt yet, says Peter Aspden
As two recent biopics come under fire from those depicted, the FT’s arts editor ponders what compels movie-makers to embellish ‘true stories’
