Magenta to release Wonderous Stories as Christmas single
Written by Charlie O'Mara
Magenta are excited to announce that they will release a version of the Yes classic Wonderous Stories as a download-only single, on Tigermoth Records, on November 15th.
The song, which will come in three alternative versions, will be available to download from all normal download sites – including Amazon and iTunes worldwide. Rob Reed talks about the bands reasons for the release:
“We are often compared favourably to Yes, and many of our fans have been asking us to have a go at a Yes piece for a while. We have been playing Wonderous Stories as part of our set during our recent run of acoustic gigs, and it was great fun to do and really well received, so we thought we’d take it into the studio and give it the full-band Magenta treatment. We think that we’ve brought something new to the song while maintaining total respect for the original, and we really hope people enjoy it.”
Wonderous Stories, from the Going For the One album, was Yes’ biggest UK hit, reaching number 7 in September 1977.
The three versions of the song will be:
Wonderous Stories : Full Mix
Wonderous Stories : Instrumental Mix
Wonderous Stories : Acoustic Mix
The band have also produced a video for the song, and an excerpt can be seen below. The complete video will be made available on the day of release.
Comment by clive /
on 2009-11-15 12:12:13 Nice, but very little thought has gone into the arrangement, you have heard the original and just played it the same !!
The secret about covering a song and ive done a few is to change it so its the same song but a different version
Example "You keep me hanging on " The Supremes and Vanilla Fudge versions, VF have put some work in, you have just copied why would i want your version when i have the original ????
Sorry like i say nice but thats it
I wish you well
Clive Jones / Black Widow
Comment by Tommy Rot on 2009-11-18 09:16:16 "We are often compared favourably to Yes...."
Hahahaha ... never in a million years, mate. Like comparing Jeffrey Archer to Shakespeare, or Angela Merkel to Beyoncé.
I'm not normally such a rude person, but if you're going to make such patently ridiculous and -- frankly -- disrespectful public pronouncements, you should expect to get shot down in flames.
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Magenta are excited to announce that they will release a version of the Yes classic Wonderous Stories as a download-only single, on Tigermoth Records, on November 15th.
