#Urge Overkill

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

Select Magazine December 1992/Suede at Edinburgh Venue/Urge Overkill w/ Eugenius at Duchess of York, Leeds

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[loretta-dont-you-oppress-me]

Finally I have my own video clip, even with music.

Loretta - You'll be a woman soon.

Music by Urge Overkill

[malayazine]

don’t u know girl… u’ll be a woman, sooon.

[rhapsodynew]

#Did you know that this is a cover?📌

"But we all often glorify the former, not knowing that we glorify only the latter..."

Agree, it's a bit insulting if you were the first to perform (or even worse, write and perform) some kind of song, and all the laurels and national love were collected by someone else's cover, which, in addition, many perceive as the original.

«Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon»

Neil Diamond The Bang Years 1966-1968

Needless to say, the soundtrack to the movie "Pulp Fiction" (1994) is almost all good. But there is also a favorite here - the charming song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" performed by the band URGE OVERKILL. The one that Uma Thurman's character dances to before sniffing the wrong powder.

Knowing the love of director Quentin Tarantin for the "old" music of the 1950s and 70s, it is not surprising that the song turned out to be old - albeit in a new performance. It was written and released as a single back in 1967 by American singer Neil Diamond. And, although the song was already in the TOP 10 at that time, over the years it had been forgotten.

«Hallelujah»

The song "Hallelujah", which has already tired the listener with countless covers, actually went to its glory for a very long time. The original 1984, recorded by the author of the song - Leonard Cohen - almost no one noticed.

In 1994, "Hallelujah" was recorded by Jeff Buckley on his album Grace. He abandoned the rich arrangement and performed the song simply with an acoustic guitar. As it turned out, it is this kind of performance that will really touch the audience. But the young man will not live to see this moment. After all, at first his album was not selling well, and in 1997 Buckley drowned in the river. Only 10 years later, "Hallelujah" was re-released as a single, the single became "platinum", after which there was no end of those who wanted to sing the song.

«White Dove»

On the collections of ballads by the German band SCORPIONS, released since 1994, you can find a composition called "White Dove" ("White Dove"), dedicated, as it is not difficult to guess, to "world peace". Many rock music fans of the older generation know perfectly well where the legs of this beautiful song "grow from." But the younger ones may need to be enlightened...

To do this, we need to go back 25 years to the time of the existence of the Eastern European socialist bloc, which included Hungary. It was in Hungary that one of the most famous rock bands of the socialist camp, called OMEGA, appeared.

The career of Magyar rockers began quite successfully. In 1968, they were noticed by British manager John Martin and invited to tour the Foggy Albion. OMEGA's debut album was also released there under the characteristic name "Omega Red Star from Hungary" — "OMEGA — red star from Hungary" (at home the record was called differently "Trombitas Fredi es a rettenetes emberek").

The group wanted to record a second album in Britain, but the Hungarian leadership did not visit OMEGA to the capitalists They liked it, and they were banned from traveling to Britain. But in vain. It was the 1969 record, "10000 lepes" ("10000 steps"), that the band released very successfully.

It was on it that OMEGA's biggest hit "Gyongyhaju Lany" ("Girl's Hair") was recorded — a beautiful ballad with a fashionable psychedelic tinge and a piercing anthemic chorus that could be sung along with the audience. In the spirit of the times, there was also a romantic and mystical text about a mysterious beauty with pearl hair, instilling light and hope into people's souls.

In 1970, "Gyongyhaju Lany" was released as a single and topped the Hungarian charts for 60 weeks.

Feeling the great potential of the song, the band recorded two more versions called "Pearls in her Hair": English ("Pearls in her hair") and German ("Perlen im Haar").

to be continued....

[love1979]

Girl, you'll be a woman soon…….!

[musicmags]

[rolloroberson]

Urge Overkill from Pulp Fiction

[musickickztoo]

Blackie Onassis † June 13, 2023

[b5ksrockhaus]

Melody Maker, June 19 1993.

[gotankgo]

1993

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

this cover is from 1992?!

[photoboothdoll]

I love you so much, can’t count all the ways I’ve died for you girl and all they can say is “He’s not your kind”

[myimaginaryradio]

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill - 1994

[caardamoom]

Stalker #5

A 90’s zine entirely dedicated to directing hatred towards Chicago AOR lame-o’s Urge Overkill.

[spilladabalia]

Urge Overkill - The Candidate

[traderrock]

Urge Overkill - Eddie "King" Roeser, Nash Kato, and Blackie Onassis.

Photo: Martyn Goodacre