Megadeth Cover
| "Anarchy in the U.K." | ||||||||||
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German release cover |
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| Single by Megadeth | ||||||||||
| from the album So Far, So Good... So What! | ||||||||||
| Released | 1988 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||||||||
| Genre | Thrash metal, punk metal | |||||||||
| Label | Capitol | |||||||||
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"Anarchy in the U.K." was covered by American thrash metal band Megadeth for their third album So Far, So Good... So What!, released in 1988.
Notoriously, the song has incorrect lyrics. Dave Mustaine explained that he could not understand Johnny Rotten's singing, so he made up the parts he could not understand (in addition, the titular country is changed to "USA", in spite of the title kept unchanged). The song's music video is a montage of live footage of the band, cartoon political figures, various scenes of violence, and scenes of a guy being forced to watch (much like Alex's therapy in A Clockwork Orange). Steve Jones played the second solo of this song.
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