From Finland to Jamaica, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting But Me

While dance clubs around the globe were blasting "Kung Fu Fighting," I was fighting Kung Fu blasting. This early disco hit, which topped the U.K. charts on this date in 1974, was recorded in ten minutes and took singer Carl Douglas a mere two takes to complete. Here's a look at three funny, funky cover versions of the song.

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John and his Cursed Ciggies

All the Beatles smoked. But then, who didn't have a ciggie 'tween their fingers in those days? Keith Richards of The Stones was simply incapable of playing guitar without a cigarette dangling from his lips. But John Lennon obviously cursed his cigarette habit. In two of his Beatles' songs he makes references to the evil cancer sticks.

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