Name: Jeff Buckley - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side by Jon Ainsworth
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Description: The Boy with the Thorn in His Side by The Smiths performed live by Jeff Buckley at the Meltdown Festival.

I know he recorded this cover on his 'you and I' album, but it would have been so awesome to have him do this version on an album. RIP Jeff Buckley

This my first time hearing this version
I am once more floored Imissed out on seeing him live

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side by The Smiths performed live by Jeff Buckley at the Meltdown Festival.

Live at the Meltdown Festival

Jeff Buckley - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

Since his desperately early death in May 1997, there's been an inevitable mythologising about the life and music of Jeff Buckley. Perhaps it's not surprising that in the posthumous rush to acknowledge his genius, memories have been clouded or, retrospectively, given a silver lining.

The quiet, uncertain foundations of his reputation were laid on a solo tour of Europe three years earlier, in March 1994 - and, in particular, during one day. On the 18th March, Buckley was scheduled for a photo shoot (with Kevin Westenberg), an appearance on BBC GLR and his first proper London concert, at a folk club called Bunjies.

In 'The Grace of Jeff Buckley', those who were there speak for the first time about the man and his music: Buckley's American manager Dave Lory, his UK tour manager Steve Abbott, booking agent Emma Banks and photographer Kevin Westenberg share intimate memories that have so far not featured in the Buckley biography.

And the programme also includes rare archive: the GLR radio session that has not been heard since that live broadcast in 1994 - including an astonishing version of 'Grace' - and, exclusively, a private interview that Buckley recorded on the eve of this tour but decided not to release.

Together, these glimpses offer a portrait of a young man whose voice and musicianship, as well as his irresistible charisma and the trauma of his early death, touched millions.

Produced by Alan Hall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - The Grace of Jeff Buckley (July 5, 2014)

A full recording of this is unreleased as far as I know.

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recorded Aug. 16th 1991 Krypton Studios NYC
written by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas
Gary--guitars
Jeff--voice, lyrics, harmonica
Jared Nickerson--bass
Tony Lewis--drums
engineered by Johnny Byrne
photo by Chris Buck
this version contains the infamous "hardcore coda", which was deemed too radical to include when it came time to record the definitive version for the "Grace" album at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock Fall of '93

Jeff Buckley - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

Jon Ainsworth

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