SEXUAL HEALING - 1988
(Marvin Gaye
)
Ooh, now let's get down tonight
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing, oh baby
Makes me feel so fine
Helps to relieve my mind
Sexual Healing baby, is good for me
Sexual Healing is something that's good for me
Whenever blue tear drops are falling
And my emotional stability is leaving me
There is something I can do
I can get on the telephone and call you up baby, and
Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
If you don't know the things you're dealing
I can tell you, darling, that it's Sexual Healing
Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, let's make love tonight
Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, 'cos you do it right
Baby I got sick this morning
A sea was storming inside of me
Baby I think I'm capsizing
The waves are rising and rising
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing is good for me
Makes me feel so fine, it's such a rush
Helps to relieve the mind, and it's good for us
Sexual Healing, baby, is good for me
Sexual Healing is something that's good for me
And it's good for me and it's good to me
My baby ohhh
Come take control, just grab a hold
Of my body and mind soon we'll be making it
Honey, oh we're feeling fine
You're my medicine open up and let me in
Darling, you're so great
I can't wait for you to operate
I can't wait for you to operate
When I get this feeling, I need Sexual Healing (ad lib)

(DVD /VHS Tribute Mandela)

VILLAGE GUETTO LAND
(Stevie Wonder)
(Tribute Mandela 70th juin 1988)

Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street
Would you like to come with me
To Village Ghetto Land

See the people lock their doors
While robbers laugh and steal
Beggars watch and eat their meal -- from garbage cans

Broken glass is everywhere
It's a bloody scene
Killing plauges the citizens
Unless they own police

Children play with rusted cars
Sores cover their hands
Politicians laugh ad drink -- drunk to all demands

Families buying dog food now
Starvation roams the streets
Babies die before they're born
Infected by the grief

Now some folks say that we should be
Glad for what we have
Tell me would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land

Village Ghetto Land

DVD Tribute Mandela)
 

AIN'T NOBODY

(Hawk Wolinski)

 
Captured effortlesly. That's the way it was.
It happens so naturely. I did not know it was love.
The next thing I felt was you. Holding me close
What was I gonna do. I let myself go.

And now we fly through the stars.
Want this night will last for ever.

I've been waiting for you. It's been so long.
I knew just what I would do when I heard your song.
I fill my heart with your kiss. It gave me freedom.
You knew I could not resist. I needed someone.

And now we're flying through the stars.
I hope this night lasts for ever.

Ain't nobody (NOBODY)
Loves me better (LOVES ME BETTER)
Makes me happy
Makes me feel this way (NOBODY)
Ain't nobody (NOBODY)
Loves me better (THAN YOU)

I wait for nighttime to come to bring you to me.
Can't believe I'm the one. I was so lonely.
I feel like noone can feel. I must be dreamin'.
I want this dream to be real. I'm in this feeling.

I make my whish upon a star
And hope this night will last for ever.

Ain't nobody (NOBODY)
Loves me better (LOVES ME BETTER)
Makes me happy This way
Makes me feel this way (NOBODY)
Ain't nobody (NOBODY BABY)
Loves me better
Ain't nobody
Loves me better (THAN YOU)

I wish you put your arms around me.
Yeah you put your arms around me.
I can't resist this sweet surrender.
Oh, my night's so warm and tender.
We stare into each others eyes.
And what we seek is no surprise.
I've got a feeling most would treasure.
And our love's so deep we cannot measure.

Picture disk : Live in USA 92 (italie)
(Interprété live par George Michael durant le Cover To Cover Tour, 1991, ainsi qu' au live Rock in Rio 1991)
 

AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US
(Mc Fadden & Whitehead)

Now, are y'all ready?
Are y'all ready?
Here we go now
Do it with the fever
Yeah, come on

Aint no stoppin' us now
We're on the move
Hey, yeah, hey, yeah
Aint no stoppin' us now
We've got the groove
Spice Girls, check it out

There've been so many things
That have held us down
But now it looks like things
Are finally comin' around, yeah
I know we've got a long, long way to go, yeah
And were we'll end up, I don't know

But we won't let nothing hold us back
We're gonna get ourselves together, ha
We're gonna polish up our act, yeah
And if you've ever been held down before
I know that you refuse to be held down any more
Yeah, yeah

Don't you let nothin', nothin'
Nothin' stand in your way
Oh, darlin'
I want y'all to listen, listen
That's right
To every word I say
Every word I say about it

Aint no stoppin' us now
That's right
We're on the move
You said it
We've got the groove

Aint no stoppin' us now
We've got the groove, oooo
Aint no stoppin' us now
We're on the move
We've got the groove

Aint no stoppin' us now
We've got the groove
Yeah, look let me tell you this

I know you know someone who's got a negative vibe (No!)
And if you only happen they only keep you alive (Shut up!)
They really don't have nowhere to go
Ask them were they're going
They don't know

But we won't let nothin' hold us back
We're gonna get ourselves together, come on
We're gonna polish up our act, yeah
And if you've ever been held down before
I know that you refuse to be held down any more

Don't you let nothin', nothin'
I won't do it, stand in your way, no, no
I want y'all to listen, listen
That's right, to every word we say
Every word we say about it

Aint no stoppin' us now
That's right
We're on the move
Nothin' gonna, nothin' gonna
Stop us now, stop us now

Aint no stoppin' (hey) us now
Come on
We've got the groove
Oooo yeah, yeah

Aint no stoppin' us now
No, no, no, no
We're one the move
On the move
Hey yeah, hey yeah

Aint no stoppin' us now
We've got the groove
Yeah, now you see

Don't wanna stop, please don't make me stop
I don't wanna
Don't wanna stop, please don't make me stop
No, no, no, no , no
Don't wanna stop, please don't make me stop
I don't want to
Don't wanna stop, please don't make me stop
Ah, y'all, spell it out for me

S-T-O-P-P-I-N, aint no
Do, yeah
S-T-O-P-P-I-N, (you got it) aint no
Aint no, no, no
S-T-O-P-P-I-N,
(Yeah, yeah, to, to, go 'head) aint no
Aint no, no, no, no, no
S-T-O-P-P-I-N,
(Yeah, yeah, to, to, come on) aint no
Hey yeah, hey yeah

Aint no stoppin' us now
We're on the move, (oh yes we are)
(Don't want to stop, please don't make me stop)
Yeah, yeah

Aint no stoppin' us now (yeah)
We've got the groove oooo
(Don't wanna stop, please don't make me stop)
Come around with me

Aint no stoppin' us now
We're on the move

Yeah

(Interprété live par George Michael durant le the Cover To Cover Tour, 1991 et Rock in Rio 1991)
(George Michael cd Coverin'1994 Italie)
 

BACK TO LIFE
(Soul II Soul)

 

Back to life, back to reality
Back to the here and now (oh yeah)
Show me how
Decide what you want from me
Tell me maybe I
Could be there for you
Oooh
However do you want me
However do you need me
However do you want me
However do you need me

Back to life
Back to the present time
Back from a fantasy, yeah
Tell me now
Take the initiative
I'll leave it in your hands
Until you're ready

Heeey

However do you want me
However do you need me
However do you want me
However do you need me
I live at the top of the block (top of the block)
There's no more room (no more room, no no no no)
For trouble or fuss
Need a change
A positive change
(Loook . . .) it's me writing on the wall
However do you want me
However do you need me

Back to life
Back to the day we had
Let's play this foolish game
Hear me out
Don't let me waste away
Make up your mind so
I know where I stand
However do you want me
However do you need me
(repeat to fade)

(Interpreté live par George Michael durant the Cover To Cover Tour, 1991 et au Live Rock in Rio 1991)
(George Michael cd Coverin' 1994 Italie)
 

TONIGHT

TWO ROOM 1991

Elton John/ Bernie Taupin

Tonight,
Do we have to fight again, tonight?
I just want to go to sleep, turn out the light.
But you want to carry grudges,
Oh, nine times out of ten,
Oh, I see the storm approaching long before the rain starts falling.

Tonight,
Does it have to be the old thing,

tonight?
Oh, it's late, too late
To chase the rainbow that you're after.
I'd like to find a compromise
And place it in your hands.
Oh, my eyes are blind, my ears can't hear,
Oh, and I cannot find the time.

Tonight,
Just let the curtains close in silence,

tonight.
Why not approach with less defiance
The man who'd love to see you smile,
who'd love to see you smile.
Tonight.
Tonight, just let the curtains close in silence,

tonight.
Why not approach with less defiance
The man who'd love to see you smile,
The man who'd love to see you smile,
The man who'd love to see you smile,
Tonight.

YEAR OF '39 6 1993
(Queen)

In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen.

And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.

In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The Volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey, little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me.

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand for the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All the letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand

For my life
Still ahead
Pity Me

(VHS ET DVD Tribute Freddie Mercury)
 

FAME
(David Bowie)

Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
Fame
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really, really?
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool

Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame,
fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame,
fame
Fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?

[whispered:]

Feeling so gay, feeling gay?
Brings so much pain?

(Picture disk Live in USA 92 Italie)
 

THE GRAVE

Don Mac Lean

HOPE 2003

The grave that they darkened
Had flowers gathered from the hillside

In bright summer colours
And the brown earth
Bleached white at the edge
Of his gravestone
He's gone

When the wars of our nation did beckon
A man barely twenty
Did answer the calling
Proud of the trust
That he placed in our nation
He's gone.

But eternity knows him
And it knows what we've done
And the rain fell like birds
On the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown muddy clay
Where the earth had been dry

And deep in the trench
He waited for hours
As he held to his rifle
And prayed not to die

The silence of night
Was shattered by fire
It's guns and grenades
Blasted sharp through the air
One after another
His comrades were slaughtered
In a morgue of Marines
Alone standing there

He crouched ever lower ever lower
With fear
They can't let me die
They can't let me die here
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth
I'll cover myself
I know I'm not brave
The earth, the earth, the earth
Is my grave

When the wars of our nation did beckon
A man barely twenty
Did answer the calling
Proud of the trust
That he placed in our nation
He's gone.

EDITH AND THE KINPIN - 2004
Joni Mitchell

The big man arrives
Disco dancers greet him
Plainclothes cops greet him
Big man, small town, fresh lipstick glistening
Sophomore jive
From victims of typewriters
The band sounds like typewriters
The big man he's not listening
His eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds his right
What does that hand desire
That he grips it so tight

Edith in the ring
The passed-over girls are conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon

Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the walls are humming
Some song-some mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says-his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare not look away

LIVE BBC RADIO 2, 18.12.2004
Digital EP
Mise a jour le 14.01.06
 

FOR THE LOVE OF YOU - 2004
Isley Brothers

Driftin’ on a memory
There ain’t no place I’d rather be
Than with you, yeah
Lovin’ you, well…my baby
Day will make a way for night
All we’ll need is candlelight
And a song
Soft and long (soft and long)

Glad to be
Here alone with a lover unlike no other
Sad to see
A new horizon slowly comin’ into view

I wanna be livin’
For the love of you, yeah
All that I’m givin’
Is for the love of you

Lovely as a ray of sun
That touches me when the mornin’ comes
Feels good to me, yeah yeah
My love and me, well

Smoother than a gentle breeze
Flowin’ through my mind with ease
Soft as can be, yeah
My love and me (hmm hmm)

I Love to be
Riding the waves of your love, enchanted with your touch now
And it seems to me
That we could sail together in and out of our mystery

I wanna be living
For the love of you, yeah, yeah
All that I’m giving
Is for the love of you

I wanna be living
Living, yeah

Don’t you know that I

Driftin’ on a memory
LIVE BBC RADIO 2, 18.12.2004
 

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

John Lennon/Paul Mac Cartney

1999 - Tribute Linda Mac Cartney

The long and winding road

That leads to yopur door will never disappear

It always leads me here

Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night that the rain

washed away has left a fool of tears

crying for the day

let me know the way

Many Times I've been alone and many times I've cried

Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried

But still they lead me back to the long winding road

You left me standing here a long-long time ago

Don't leave me waiting here

Lead me to your door

Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried

Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried

But still they lead me back to the long winding road

You left me standing here a long-long time ago

Don't keep me waiting here

Lead me to your door

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

TICKING

Ecrit par Elton John / Bernie Taupin.

"An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school reports
"He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught"
So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive
To notify your parents of the manner in which you died

At St. Patricks every Sunday, Father Fletcher heard your sins
"Oh, he's unconcerned with competition he never cares to win"
But blood stained a young hand that never held a gun
And his parents never thought of him as their troubled son

"Now you'll never get to Heaven" Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Grow up straight and true blue
Run along to bed"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking

They had you holed up in a downtown bar screaming for a priest
Some gook said "His brain's just snapped" then someone called the police
You'd knifed a Negro waiter who had tried to calm you down
Oh you'd pulled a gun and told them all to lay still on the ground

Promising to hurt no one, providing they were still
A young man tried to make a break, with tear-filled eyes you killed
That gun butt felt so smooth and warm cradled in your palm
Oh your childhood cried out in your head "they mean to do you harm"

"Don't ever ride on the devil's knee" Mama said
Remember mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Pay your penance well, my child
Fear where angels tread"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking

Within an hour the news had reached the media machine
A male caucasian with a gun had gone berserk in Queens
The area had been sealed off, the kids sent home from school
Fourteen people lying dead in a bar they called the Kicking Mule

Oh they pleaded to your sanity for the sake of those inside
"Throw out your gun, walk out slow just keep your hands held high"
But they pumped you full of rifle shells as you stepped out the door
Oh you danced in death like a marionette on the vengeance of the law

"You've slept too long in silence" Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Crazy boy, you'll only wind up with strange notions in your head"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking
 

Song to the Siren

de This Mortal Coil

Interpreté par George Michael en ouverture des 2 concerts au Stade de Wembley les 9 et 10 juin 2007

On the floating, shapeless oceans
I did all my best to smile
til your singing eyes and fingers
drew me loving into your eyes.

And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me;
Let me enfold you."

Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you.
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when I was full sail?

Now my foolish boat is leaning, broken love lost on your rocks.
For you sang, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow."
Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow.
I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.
I'm as riddled as the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or shall I lie with death my bride?

Hear me sing: "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you."
"Here I am. Here I am, waiting to hold you."
 

IDOL

d'Elton John et Bernie Taupin

Interpreté par George durant la tournée 25 Live summer tour en 2007

`Cause the fifties shifted out of gear
He was an idol then, now he's an idol here
But his face has changed, he's not the same no more
And I have to say that I like the way his music sounded before

He was tight-assed
Walking on broken glass
Highly prized in the wallet size
The number one crush in a schoolgirl's eyes
But don't pretend that it won't end
In the depth of your despair
You went from lame suits right down to tennis shoes
To peanuts from the lion's share

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ANOTHER STAR

De Stevie Wonder

Intrepreté par George durant la tournée 25 live summer tour 2007

FEELING GOOD

Anthony Newley et Leslie Bricusse (interpreté par  Nina Simone, Muise, M. Bubblé....)