Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Careless Whisper by Seether
Quote by Freddie Mercury
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairy tales of yesterday grow and never die
I can fly
The show must go on.
I don't like the expression cover song which to me associates a song with one particular person and thus any other version is a ''cover'' and can evoke some sort of negative connotation (perhaps I'm mistaken). I think the most important thing is the song not who sang it. You never hear a comment like ''Sky have covered Bach's Tocata and Fugue in D minor'' I also note that this is a relatively new form of expression previously it was ''version'' which sounds less territorial and more egalitarian - music is for everybody and if someone does a song you've composed they're flattering you- irrespective of any financial consequences.