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Best Ever Cover Songs

Afew years ago, You Were Always On My Mind by The Pet Shop Boys was voted the best ever cover; it is excellent. I find the Elvis Presley version slow mournful and rather boring.

Back in the sixties, blues singer Joe Cocker took the Beatles jaunty pop song With A Little Help From My Friends and

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turned it into a classic with great female backing singers. The vocals were almost shouty and I wondered at the time what Ringo made of it? In 1994 American rockers Nine Inch Nails (aka NiN) wrote a song called hurt. The song was covered brilliantly by Johnny Cash in 2002. Cash sang it in a lower voice than the original and with lines like Everyone I know Goes Away In The End made it a tear jerking classic. Adele had a big hit with Make You Feel My Love. However, did you know that the original was written and performed by Bob Dylan? I think it's fair to say that Dylan wrote many songs that bands did better, including a favourite of mine, Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds. David Bowie wrote The Man Who Sold the World in the early 1970s. Then in the 1990s Nirvana brought this great song to a whole new audience. The theme from The Bodyguard (I Will Always Love

You) was made famous by Whitney Houston, even though it was written and performed in 1973 by Dolly Parton. Dolly is known to have expressed the opinion that she