Blondie’s Debbie Harry is a master of the cover, and some of her band’s most notable songs, such as‘The Tide Is High’ (Watch on Youtube) 
or ‘Hanging on the Telephone’, are not even originals. However, they are delivered with such conviction that it becomes easy to forget this point. (Faroutmagazine)
Jimi Hendrix’s cover version of the Bob Dylan song ‘All Along The Watchtower’ is the perfect example of how to take on another artist’s creation. In fact, his take was so impressive that even Dylan admitted it blew the original out of the water. “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way,” he once quipped. “Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones:
Toward the top half of the most covered songs throughout musical history, “Satisfaction” has approximately 400 different recordings strewn across streaming platforms everywhere.
“My Way” by Frank Sinatra
“Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, sung by Judy Garland“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen are among the top 10 most performed songs in music history. But the top one is from a Liverpudlian young man.
25 of the Most Covered Songs in Music History (Click here)
On 17th June 1965, working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles completed work on the new Paul McCartney song “Yesterday” – with the overdubbing of an additional vocal track by McCartney and a string quartet. Paul had recorded his vocal and guitar in two takes – not a bad day’s work for the 23 year-old songwriter, then. (Mccartney full concert)
According to biographers McCartney composed the entire melody to “Yesterday” in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then-girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.
McCartney’s initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else’s work, a process known as cryptomnesia, which occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognised as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. (Thisdayinmusic)
