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The Dandy Warhols To Cover Beatles 'Blackbird' Following Jackson's Death

• 15th Jul 2009

The Dandy Warhols have confirmed they will cover The Beatles’ track, Blackbird, following the death of Michael Jackson.

The band are honouring their commitment to record a version of the song made on their 2003 album track ‘Welcome To The Monkey House’, which contained the lyrics, “When Michael Jackson Dies/We’re Covering Blackbird”.

Peter Holstrum told NME that the band received hundreds of texts and emails within hours of the star’s death perusing the promise. “It’s so bizarre – I never thought we’d be doing it this soon. We were flooded with texts within an hour of (Jackson’s) death.”

An announcement on the band’s website link states, “With both Courtney and Fathead currently out of town we cannot say when we will be able to get to this cover of ‘Blackbird’, but we will, as soon as we are all together and able, since we have come to find that it means so much to a lot of you.”