Aussie Rock Legends Baby Animals Share Cover of Motörhead’s ‘Ace of Spades’

The blistering single features The Living End’s Chris Cheney.

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Aussie rockers Baby Animals have teamed up with The Living End’s Chris Cheney for a blistering cover of Motörhead’s iconic tune, ‘Ace of Spades’.

The song is the first of two singles Baby Animals plan on releasing this year ahead of a new album.

“We were thinking about doing a cover for the new album and were going back & forth for ages,” the band explained in a press release. “Then when Ricki Rae was on tour with The Living End (doing FOH sound), he asked the boys if Baby Animals were to do a cover, what would you suggest.

“Chris Cheney said he’d love to hear us do ‘Ace of Spades’. We started to imagine how we could make it work for us, so we took it as a challenge and dragged Chris in as well – as it was his idea in the first place. And here we are!”

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Fronted by the untouchable Suzi DeMarchi, Baby Animals ruled the Aussie charts in the early ‘90s, with their self-titled debut album hitting #1 on the ARIA Album Chart and follow-up Shaved and Dangerous peaking at #2.

The three-time ARIA Award winners split in 1996 before reforming in 2007, releasing two more albums – Il Grande Silenzio (2008) and This Is Not the End (2013).

Baby Animals are gearing up to hit the road again as part of this year’s Red Hot Summer Tour series alongside ZZ Top, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, The Living End, Rose Tattoo and Dallas Frasca.   

Stream ‘Ace of Spades’ here and keep up to date with all things Baby Animals via their Instagram.

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