10 Hard Rock Music Covers You Wish Never Happened
2. Rocket Man – William Shatner
Out of this world doesn’t come close to describing William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man. There’s so many bonkers factors to this live performance that after a while, it stops being terrible and instead your transported to a strange universe where everything you thought you knew about music comes into question.
Shatner released an album of this kind of material back in 1968, and over the years he's continued churning out his unique and often unnerving interpretations of much loved songs. For anyone ready to open up the pandoras box that is William Shatner's musical career, his cover of Bohemian Rhapsody is the next logical place to go.
If there is one piece of praise to level at Shatner, however, it's his truly impressive ability to ignore all sense of conventional song structure. He has a remarkable aptitude for dropping lyrics over the backing music, with no heed of what the melody is dictating.
If this was Shatner trolling the world long before trolling was in the lexicon, then he should be applauded. But, Shatner has never been known for being particularly self aware...