British soul singer Beverly Knight appeared on UK TV music show 'Cover Story' on Fri 23rd August. Each act that appears on the show is asked to play a cover version of one of their favourite songs. Beverly chose to sing Prince's 'I Feel For You'. In a short interview, she talked about her love for Prince, and that she had once got to meet him - in the liner notes to her new album she apparently thanks for Prince for 'an unforgettable 7 days and nights', although she didn't elaborate on this in the interview, except to say that it 'wasn't what you all think'...
Shocking cover, though.

Was just about to submit this same story. Dermot the presenter thought he was so musically knowledgeable when he said "Prince co-wrote this with Melle Mel and it featured harmonica by Stevie Wonder". Think either he or even Bev knew Prince had originally recorded the song himself? Nah.

The cover wasn't that bad, I have a very fond spot for Ms Knight especially as Prince is her favourite.

Essence said:

who the hell is Melle Mel??

talk2thejay said:

Read the credits: http://www.artistdirect.c...03,00.html
[This message was edited Sat Aug 24 0:18:34 PDT 2002 by langebleu]

langebleu said:

aaah, thanx

Essence said:

A couple of times over the years the dj dorks at my local station said that Prince wrote the song for Chaka Khan. I miss the days of knowledgeable djs and the pre-Clear Channel monopoly.

talk2thejay said:

Grandmaster Melle Mel conceived and performed the rap on Chaka Khan's version. Although I'm not sure he is widely credited as "co-writer" with Prince on the track, this guy on TV says Prince and Mel wrote it together so he heard wrong somewhere.

Poor Dermot... maybe he'd been given the wrong info from the producers? Everyone makes mistakes man! I went to school with Dermot. Just thought I'd name drop a bit.

fishwillbite said:

The unforgettable 7 days and nights has got to be the celebration!

Therapy said:

Nah the album came out before Xenophobia and it wasn't about previous years either.

When he came to promote RU2TJF album at Mermaids Theatre London she came onstage and sang with him and he promised they'd record duet etc. He likes her albums apparently.

fishwillbite said:

I saw beverly knight perform in
stockholm couple of month ago.
the concert was really good and
the band was great.
a pity that the album I feel was
not half as powerful.
at any rate she did a knock-out
performance of "I feel 4U".
more chaka khans version than
prince's though.