Musical travesty

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I was channel hopping earlier and happened to stumble across that Joseph talent show thing. I recognised the song being sung by some bloke as "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones so stayed on the channel until the song ended - big mistake .

I have always loved this song and consider it one of my all time favourites.

I was absolutely horrified by the way it was crucified by this, allegedly, talented singer (I believe the show is in it's final stages and as such, the level of talent should be quite high). The audience cheered and clapped and whistled as if this chap had performed beautifully - the guy murdered it

I am all for people covering past hits and using their own style to reinterpret them - but this chap took a classic song and added absolutely **ck all to it - he recited it as if he were a schoolboy reciting a poem in front of the class which he didn't care for and was merely reciting it because he had been asked to do so and not because he wanted to.

Any cover versions you guys can think of which should never have been done?

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