Check out 81-year-old Fred Knittle's quietly devastating live cover of Coldplay's I Will Fix You.
The clip is from a documentary about Knittle and New England's octogenarian Young at Heart Chorus that aired on the BBC. Apparently, Kittle was supposed to sing with another man named Bob Salvini -- but Salvini died of a heart attack the week earlier.
YouTube creates another phenom. Knittle must be tickled...
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Here's the original Coldplay video, by the way. It's a good song, but I think Coldplay kind of peaked with A Rush of Blood to the Head. Everything I've heard off their latest album seems a bit like Coldplay lite, including this song. I much prefer Knittle's version.
And while you're at YouTube, you definitely want to join the 6.5 million others who have watched this now-famous laughing baby.
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Powerful, poetic, and preposessing. A tasteful partnership of song and vocalist, but with a treatment that will not be forgotton. A must 'see'.
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