Covers
The boy's choir Libera recorded a cover of this song on their 2008 album "New Dawn", and it was performed in December 2007 at the annual Kennedy Center Honors Awards, attended by President George W. Bush and a host of celebrities, as a tribute to Brian Wilson, opening with the dedication "Mr Wilson, we were born a long, long way from your California beaches, but the sunlight of your music can be felt everyday on the streets in South London" by Joshua Madine, age 13.
The Alt-Country band Golden Smog recorded a version of the song.
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with heart’s
blood
Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)