Best Cover Version

Definitely agree with this. If you are going to do a cover, do it differently. I love some of the ukelele / Hawaiian covers. Hallelujah and Somewhere Over the Rainbow have been done this way, they work brilliantly.
Someone earlier mentioned Harry Nilsson's 'Without you'. Best ever cover version I heard of that was by an Oompah band who were wandering around the streets of Lucerne.
 
As we’re talking Beatles covers…

I’ve already suggested a 2 minute cover. Here’s a 30 minute cover 🤣. The brilliant Transatlantic melding their own song with most of the anwesome Abbey Road side 2 suite.

I saw them live on this tour (and a couple of times since) and they were mindblowingly good - such a treat when they dropped this in.

 
I’ve got two. The Lemonheads’ version of Mrs Robinson and Leaving on a Jet Plane by Me First and the Gimme Gimme’s.

The WORST cover version is clearly All Saints murdering Under the Bridge.
 
I don't think it was better than the original, but I always thought that 'Here comes the sun' by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel was an original and interesting cover of the Beatles (Harrison) classic.
 
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