551: Unlikely Cover Songs in the '80s

04/26/20 • 33 min

Some of the songs we loved in the '80s weren't written in that decade at all. In this week's show about unlikely cover songs, we probe tunes by George Harrison, Paul Young and REM.

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Some of the songs we loved in the '80s weren't written in that decade at all. In this week's show about unlikely cover songs, we probe tunes by George Harrison, Paul Young and REM.

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