“My Immortal (Rock Version)” by Evanescence

Amy Lee and Ben Moody wrote "My Immortal" when they were 15, and the song went through several recordings, the earliest in 1997. When Evanescence made their 2003 debut, Fallen, Wind-up used the old demo take, Lee's demo vocal and MIDI keyboard and all, against her wishes, with strings from Daredevil composer Graeme Revell layered on. The rock version is something else: the single, billed as the "band version", is a fresh recording by Lee and Moody with guitar, drums, bass and a David Campbell string arrangement, issued by Wind-up on December 8, 2003.

It's still a piano power ballad at heart, a made-up ghost story about a spirit that lingers to haunt someone, only now with muscle. The single went to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, topped the charts in Canada, Greece and Portugal, and picked up a Grammy nomination.

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