Įllie Goulding released a cover of the song on Valentine's Day 2018, apologizing to her fans about delays in her recording projects. In December 2017, James Blake performed a live piano-backed cover at Conway Studios, Los Angeles. Lianne La Havas recorded a cover for the soundtrack album and credits of the 2017 film Loving Vincent. In 1996, NOFX released a punk rock cover for their compilation album Survival of the Fattest. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. The song was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, and was played to him in the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the hospital where Tupac was admitted just before he died of gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting. sympathiz with Van Gogh's suicide as a sane comment on an insane world.' The site also said McLean performs 'a particularly poignant rendition' of 'Vincent' on the 2001 live album Starry, Starry Night. AllMusic retrospectively described the song as 'McLean's paean to Van Gogh. The Telegraph wrote: 'With its bittersweet palette of major and minor chords, 'Vincent''s soothing melody is one of high emotion recollected in tranquillity'. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag.' Critical reception

This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of 'crazy' – because he was rejected by a woman. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn't crazy. 'In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. McLean said the following about the genesis of the song:

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