When he heard the record, Eric Clapton was knocked out. Sticking with US R&B acts, Wilson Pickett’s 1969 cover of ‘Hey Jude’ was an exercise in the seemingly impossible – how do you improve on perfection? Pickett enlisted an unknown young gunslinger named Duane Allman to play guitar on the track, which, on top of a brassy arrangement and Pickett’s screaming vocals, was the sweetest icing on a very rich cake. In the end, we plumped for the former, but both are well worthy. Ray Charles tackled more than Beatles cover in his time, and it was a tough call to pick between his version of ‘Yesterday’ or ‘Eleanor Rigby’. The Beatles loved American R&B, and much of their pre-fame setlist comprised music by Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander and countless other black American artists having their songs covered by such artists was always a thrill back in the 60s.
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