Celluloid Heroes - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

Joan Jett recorded this song for her all-covers album The Hit List.

A live performance of this track (featuring Ray Davies) appeared as the B-side to Bon Jovi's 2002 single "Misunderstood".

A remake of this song by Steve Vai is included on his album The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1.

Finnish singer-songwriter Juice Leskinen translated and recorded this song in Finnish as Paperitähdet.

Renaissance-inspired folk rock band Blackmore's Night recorded the song for their album Autumn Sky.

The song appeared on Ray Davies' 2010 album See My Friends, featuring Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.

Australian actor Reg Livermore performs the song in his Betty Blokk-Buster Follies show, the song also appears on the soundtrack.

The Kinks
  • Ray Davies
  • Dave Davies
  • Mick Avory
  • John Dalton
  • Ian Gibbons
  • John Gosling
  • Bob Henrit
  • Andy Pyle
  • Pete Quaife
  • Jim Rodford
Studio albums
  • Kinks
  • Kinda Kinks
  • The Kink Kontroversy
  • Face to Face
  • Something Else by The Kinks
  • The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
  • Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
  • Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
  • Muswell Hillbillies
  • Everybody's in Show-Biz
  • Preservation Act 1
  • Preservation Act 2
  • Soap Opera
  • Schoolboys in Disgrace
  • Sleepwalker
  • Misfits
  • Low Budget
  • Give the People What They Want
  • State of Confusion
  • Word of Mouth
  • Think Visual
  • UK Jive
  • Phobia
Live albums
  • Live at Kelvin Hall
  • One for the Road
  • Live: The Road
  • To the Bone
EPs
  • Kinksize Session
  • Kinksize Hits
  • Kwyet Kinks
  • Dedicated Kinks
  • The Kinks
Compilations
  • Kinks-Size
  • Kinkdom
  • Greatest Hits!
  • Well Respected Kinks
  • Sunny Afternoon
  • The Kink Kronikles
  • The Great Lost Kinks Album
  • Come Dancing with The Kinks
  • The Kinks Are Well Respected Men
  • Lost & Found (1986–1989)
  • The Ultimate Collection
  • Picture Book
Unreleased projects
  • Four More Respected Gentlemen
  • A Hole in the Sock of (Dave Davies)
Related articles
  • Discography
  • Band members
  • Konk
  • The Kast Off Kinks
  • Argent
  • X-Ray
  • Percy
  • Do It Again
  • Book
  • Category
  • Portal
  • WikiProject
The Kinks singles discography
singles 1960s
1964
"Long Tall Sally"
"You Still Want Me"
"You Really Got Me"
"All Day and All of the Night"
1965
"Tired of Waiting for You"
"Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy"
"Set Me Free"
"See My Friends"
"Who'll Be the Next in Line"
"A Well Respected Man"
"Till the End of the Day"
1966
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion"
"Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight?"
"Sunny Afternoon"
"Dandy"
"Dead End Street"
1967
"Mister Pleasant"
"Waterloo Sunset"
"Death of a Clown"
"Autumn Almanac"
"Susannah's Still Alive"
1968
"Wonderboy"
"Days"
"Lincoln County"
1969
"Starstruck"
"Hold My Hand"
"Plastic Man"
"Drivin'"
"The Village Green Preservation Society"
"Shangri-La"
"Victoria"
singles 1970s
1970
"Lola"
"Apeman"
1971
"God's Children"
"20th Century Man"
1972
"Supersonic Rocket Ship"
"Celluloid Heroes"
1973
"One Of The Survivors"
"Sitting in the Midday Sun"
"Sweet Lady Genevieve"
"Where Have All the Good Times Gone"
1974
"Money Talks"
"Mirror of Love"
"Holiday Romance"
"Preservation"
1975
"Ducks on the Wall"
"Starmaker"
"You Can't Stop The Music"
1976
"I'm in Disgrace"
"No More Looking Back"
1977
"Sleepwalker"
"Juke Box Music"
"Father Christmas"
1978
"A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy"
"Live Life"
"Black Messiah"
1979
"(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
"Moving Pictures"
"A Gallon of Gas"
"Catch Me Now I'm Falling"
"Pressure"
singles 1980s
1980
"Lola" (live)
"Till the End of the Day" (live)
"You Really Got Me" (live)
1981
"Victoria" (live)
"Better Things"
"Destroyer"
"Predictable"
1982
"Come Dancing"
1983
"Don't Forget to Dance"
"State of Confusion"
1984
"Good Day"
1985
"Summer's Gone"
"Do It Again"
1986
"Rock 'n' Roll Cities"
"How Are You"
1987
"Lost and Found"
other selected songs
"Bald Headed Woman"
"Big Black Smoke"
"David Watts"
"Got to Be Free"
"The Hard Way"
"Have a Cuppa Tea"
"I Go to Sleep"
"I Need You"
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else"
"Mr. Churchill Says"
"Oklahoma U.S.A."
"Polly"
"Rats"
"Sitting in My Hotel"
"Strangers"
"Wicked Annabella"

Read more about this topic:  Celluloid Heroes

Famous quotes containing the words cover and/or versions:

    “When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)

    “The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
    —Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)