- Culture
- 15 Apr 20
The new supergroup is comprised of Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets), Nic Cester (Jet), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) and Jamie Davis, with Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass, and drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons).
Formed by Jamie Davis while he was attempting to book a Beatles covers band for his birthday (bleak, I know), The Jaded Hearts Club was born when he realised he knew "a bunch of half decent British musician friends living in L.A." Naturally, he asked if they’d come together "to form an early ‘60s Cavern-era Beatles band," and naturally, they said yes.
“I read somewhere recently, which made me laugh, that rock is the new jazz,” says Bellamy. “It’s becoming an esoteric genre, but still with huge historical and cultural importance. Like jazz, which often reinvents old songs, The Jaded Hearts Club is continuing the tradition of how bands like The Beatles and The Stones started out – finding great soul and blues standards and recording them in a more modern style.”
Now, they return with a Marvin Gaye classic called 'This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me)'. Gaye wrote the song shortly after 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine', but it wouldn't make its way out of the Motown vault for another 30 years, until 1994. Listen below.