Have A Cigar - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• In 1979, Warner Bros. Records released a 12" single containing a special disco mix of "Have a Cigar" by Rosebud, a studio group led by composer Gabriel Yared, from their album Discoballs: A Tribute to Pink Floyd. The song peaked at number 4 on Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart in June 1979. The B-side was a disco version of "Money".
• In 1992, the band Primus recorded a cover of the song and included it as the closing track to their Miscellaneous Debris EP. Their version features a slight lyrical change: "The band is just fantastic, of the town you are the talk/Man, but who the hell's this guy they call Bob Cock?"
• Foo Fighters recorded a cover version featuring Brian May on the guitar and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on lead vocals. It first appeared on the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack, and later as an Amazon.com bonus track on their 2009 Greatest Hits album and the 2011 limited-edition vinyl only release Medium Rare, released for Record Store Day.
• The album Instead, released in 2007 by Onetwo, contains a cover version of "Have a Cigar".
• The main riff of "Have a Cigar" is incorporated into the song "Peruvian Skies" by progressive metal band Dream Theater on their 1998 live album Once in a LIVEtime and on the Live DVD 5 Years in a Livetime. Also, from their album "Images and Words," using the main riff from "Have a Cigar" at the beginning of "Metropolis: Part I" .
• A free CD given with the October 2011 issue of UK music magazine Mojo features a cover version of "Have a Cigar" by John Foxx and The Maths. This version was later announced by Mojo as 'not the finished version' and the correct version was offered as a free download from the website.
• In 2011, Italian progressive rock band Egoband recorded a cover of "Have a Cigar", to be released in a Pink Floyd Tribute CD produced by Mellow Records.