Today [May 29th] sees the release of a great new cover of Rod’s classic ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy’with a modern touch by French duo shade Of Shade ready to hit the radios and streaming platforms .
Shade Of Shade were formed by Vincent Roche and Léo Miquel.
who met in 2015 thanks to the Vincent radio show. They started to work together and in 2018 they decided to form the band “Shade Of Shade”.
They released their first pop-funk single “Action” in June 2019, which made more than 300k views on YouTube!
Still working on their album, they decided to take their time to make something really good.
The guys told SMILER “But in our head there was this Rod Stewart classic, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” playing over and over, so we decided to make a cover of it. This song being so good the way it was we figured out the best way to cover it was to make something completely different”.
To here a clip of ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy’ go to https://shadeofshade.lnk.to/DaYaThinkImSexy
“Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” is a song from Rod’s 1978 album Blondes Have More Fun. It was written by Stewart, Carmine Appice and Duane Hitchings, though it incorporates the melody from the song “Taj Mahal” by Jorge Ben Jor and the string arrangement from the song “Put Something Down On It” by Bobby Womack.
Royalties from the song were donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Rod performed the song at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in January 1979.
The song has previously been covered In 1979 by KBG Kitchen, Denise LaSalle, British Standard Unit, Gene Summers & Dea, Ian Johnston, Millie Jackson, The Hiltonaires, Hybrid Kids, In 1981 by Brotherhood of Man, Rock Heroes,Stars on 45, In 1982 by Saragossa Band, In 1987 by Sabrina, In 1993 by Revolting Cocks, In 1994 by The Benzedrine Monks of Santo Domonica, In 1995 by The Gary Tesca Orchestra, In 1996 by Tiny Tim, In 1997 by N-Trance featuring Rod Stewart, Kayah, Tom Jones, In 1998 by I’M’L, In 2001 by Party Animals, 2002 by Queen of Japan, In 2003 by Handsome Hank and His Lonesome Boys, In 2004 by Girls of FHM, Vanilla Fudge,In 2005 by Cam Fox, In 2006 by Thomas [Saifam], Paris Hilton, Carmine Appice Project,In 2008 by Jill Saward, Cassandra Beck, in 2009 by Garou, Bandx, 2010 by Axe Men, In 2011 by Glee Cast, In 2012 by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Vargas Blues Band, Marwie, In 2014 by Aut Aut Orchestra, Robert Rush In 2015 by Hermes House Band, Javier Malosetti y Julián Malosetti, In 2016 by Sophia Urista,In 2017 by Rod Stewart featuring DNCE, 2019 by Katja Rieckermann,