Johnny Cash transforming Nine Inch Nails; a Prince track done better than Prince - here are the redos that will do it for you ...

But the tune’s comparative catchiness makes the song the perfect gateway drug into the Surfers’ psychedelic noise, a sound ...

That said, Swervedriver's cover version of "Reflections" is exactly what one probably would expect. It's a more fraught version of the song, with some signature shoegaze background noise ...

Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson produced Lulu’s 1973 cover version, which made the song famous. Lulu’s version lacked Ronson’s guitar riff, though, replaced by a new saxophone hook.

For some young artists, a great cover song can ignite their careers and become their signature number — be it Sinead O’Connor’s version of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” or Joan Jett ...

A cover version is a new performance of a song originally recorded by somebody else. When an artist covers a song made famous by another performer, it is an homage to the song and the songwriter ...

Did you know your favorite version of a song might not be the original? From "Little Drummer Boy" to "Yesterday" here are the most covered songs of all time.

Bob Dylan has probably had to listen to many awful covers of his work, but when he first heard the most famous cover of a ...

However, Soft Cell's version is a cover itself. Ed Cobb wrote and produced the track in the early 1960s and it was recorded by American artist Gloria Jones in 1964, being released the following year.

An outstanding cover version can wrest a song from the grasp of even the biggest stars. So commanding is Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares To U”, for example, that it relegates the song ...

From Robert Wyatt and the Monkees to Whitney Houston and . . . Robert Wyatt, here are 20 revelatory takes on classic tunes to surprise and delight even the most ardent music snobs.

Six of the 14 songs on The Beatles' 1963 debut album were cover versions. So were all but two songs on the Stones' 1964 debut album.