SO MANY unanswered questions about "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve.
What made them think they could make a six-second loop of an orchestral arrangement of a Rolling Stones song ("The Last Time"), create a four-minute song from it, and not give Jagger and Richards writing credit (which they were eventually forced to do)?
Why use a Stones song that had its own origin controversy? ("The Last Time" is very similar to a 1955 song by The Staple Singers called "This May Be The Last Time," but The Stones claimed it as their own. -SongFacts.com)
Why does the video for the song consist of the lead singer walking against the flow of pedestrians on a busy sidewalk, bumping into people?
Why would the listening public of 1997 turn a song with a lyric like "You're a slave to money, then you die" into a Number 12 hit?
And last but not least, why would Rolling Stone magazine call it the 382nd Greatest Song of All Time?
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