Old Music: The Dream Academy – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental)

The best cover of this Smiths classic dispenses with the vocal entirely. And don't you dare mention the John Lewis adEveryone loses their head around December, a fact highlighted by the frenzy around the 2011 John Lewis Christmas ad blitz. So, with a bitof distance, a few truths: it's not the greatest ad ever (that's either this or this), it's not soundtracked by the greatest ever Smiths cover (that'll be this). In fact, Slow Moving Millie's version of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want...

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