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#Wild 9 remake series

10 in Norway, Sweden and Netherlands and No. In Europe, it was very successful, peaking at No. Big released a cover of "Wild World" on their third album Bump Ahead. 5 in Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK, No. In Europe it was very successful, peaking at No. In 1988, English reggae vocalist Maxi Priest recorded a cover of the song, which was released as the third single from his album, Maxi. 2018: Marion Raven (Live version for her acoustic tour in Norway).1971: Franck Pourcel (Instrumental version).

#Wild 9 remake series

Wang's version was also featured in American web television series The Good Fight Season 1, 2017. In 2011, Taiwanese-American singer Joanna Wang released her own version on her album The Things We Do for Love. James Blunt sang it at Wembley Stadium in London, England, while Stevens (by then known as Yusuf Islam) himself sang it in Hamburg, Germany. On 7 July 2007, the song was performed twice at the Live Earth concerts. This single flopped, while Pet Shop Boys sued King, eventually winning out-of-court damages, which they donated to charity. King also released his own cover version of "Wild World" as a single, using a similar musical arrangement to "It's a Sin", in an effort to demonstrate his claims. He made the claims in The Sun, for which he wrote a regular column during the 1980s. In 1987, Jonathan King accused Pet Shop Boys of plagiarising the melody of "Wild World" for their UK No. Recorded and released as a single in 1988, this version also did well on the charts, reaching No. Some of the subsequent covers have also been in the reggae style, such as Maxi Priest's version of the song.

Surprisingly, Stevens' version was not released as a single in the UK.

Jimmy Cliff's version, released a few months after Stevens released the original version, reached No. The song has been covered by many artists, with many of the covers becoming hits of their own. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for "Wild Word"

Harvey Burns – drums, congas, tambourine.

Alun Davies – acoustic guitar, backing vocals.

Cat Stevens – classical guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, lead vocals.

In her 1971 essay "But Now I'm Gonna Move," critic Ellen Willis described a method of revealing male bias in lyrics in which the listener imagines the genders reversed:īy this test, a diatribe like ' Under My Thumb' is not nearly so sexist in its implications as, for example, Cat Stevens's gentle, sympathetic 'Wild World' Jagger's fantasy of sweet revenge could easily be female-in fact, it has a female counterpart, Nancy Sinatra's ' Boots' - but it's hard to imagine a woman sadly warning her ex-lover that he's too innocent for the big bad world out there. Some critics and music writers have deemed "Wild World" to be condescending and misogynistic. In November 2008, the Tea for the Tillerman CD was re-issued in a deluxe version which included the original demo of "Wild World". "Wild World" has been credited as the song that gave Stevens' next album, Tea for the Tillerman, "enough kick" to get it played on FM radio and Island Records' Chris Blackwell called it "the best album we've ever released". Released as a single in late 1970, it peaked at No. I turned it around and came up with that theme-which is a recurring theme in my work-which is to do with leaving, the sadness of leaving, and the anticipation of what lies beyond."

Stevens later recalled to Mojo: "It was one of those chord sequences that's very common in Spanish music. The song is in the form of the singer's words to his departing lover, inspired by the end of their romance. During that time, he wrote several songs about her, including "Wild World". Stevens developed a relationship with actress Patti D'Arbanville and the two were a pair throughout a period of roughly two years.