Old music: The Paragons – The Tide Is High

Don't let this silken classic be remembered as an Atomic Kitten song. Celebrate John Holt insteadThe Tide Is High is fated to be remembered as a cover version. It's been a No 1 twice in the UK – for Blondie in 1980 and Atomic Kitten in 2002 – and recorded or adapted by plenty of other acts, including Gregory Isaacs, Kardinal Offishall and Billie Piper. Horrifically, you can hear its chord pattern repeated in Bryan Adams's Reggae Christmas, a song that makes Morrissey's 1985 statement that "r...

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