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Watch Sam Smith take on Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’
The chart-topping singer was at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge yesterday.
Chart-topping soul-pop sensation Sam Smith is really rather good at singing sad songs, and it’s a well known fact that Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is one rather unhappy specimen.
So it probably made a lot of sense when the singer - who released Number One, platinum-selling debut album, ‘In The Lonely Hour’ in May this year - decided to cover it as part of his BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session broadcast yesterday (3rd September).
See his alternative arrangement of the classic below.
Smith performs at Bestival this weekend, before a headline set at the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in London on Tuesday. He then tours the UK beginning in late October.
OCTOBER
23 Glasgow O2 ABC
24 Leeds O2 Academy
25 Newcastle O2 Academy
27 Birmingham O2 Academy
28 Nottingham Rock City
29 Manchester Albert Hall
30 Manchester Albert Hall
NOVEMBER
3 Cambridge Corn Exchange
4 Bristol Colston Hall
6 London Eventim Apollo
7 London Eventim Apollo
Read the DIY Weekly cover feature with Sam Smith from back in May this year.
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