Kenny Lynch

Although he had a couple of Top Ten singles in Britain in 1963, Kenny Lynch is most famous for a flop single he issued the same year. That was "Misery," the first cover of a Beatles song to be released. In early 1963, Lynch had been on the same bill as the Beatles on the group's first British tour; John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "Misery" in January 1963, in the hopes that the artist on top of the bill, Helen Shapiro, would record it. Shapiro's producer turned it down, but Lynch took the composition and gave it a much more pop-oriented arrangement than the Beatles would u...