Mick Hartley

Only Nina Simone could manage a song like this:

Live at the Bitter End, New York 1968. A good eight years before Alice Cooper had his song of the same name – and 23 years before Megadeth.

There's not that much live Nina Simone on YouTube. This 1968 London performance of Ain't Got no, I Got Life is good – though the song (in fact a medley of two songs from Hair) isn't, to be honest, one of my favourites. Then there's the Aardman claymation from 1987 of the 1958 classic My Baby Just Cares For Me.

And a 1965 version of I Put a Spell on You - which, unusually for Nina Simone, seems tame and innocuous compared to the extraordinary Screamin' Jay Hawkins version.