"One" is the third song from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and was released as a single in 1992. Tensions during the recording of the album almost prompted U2 to break-up until the band rallied around the writing of "One". It is widely considered to be one of the band's greatest songs and is consistently featured in lists of the greatest songs of all time, including Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, where it placed #36, and #1 on Q Magazine's list of the 1001 Greatest Songs of All-Time.
| Year | Covered by | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Automatic Baby | Live X II - One Life |
| Mica Paris | "One" | |
| 1999 | Absolute Rock | A Tribute to the Greatest Hits of U2 |
| Information Society | We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 | |
| Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Pride: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays U2 | |
| 2000 | Johnny Cash | American III: Solitary Man |
| Kane | With or Without You | |
| 2001 | Lighthouse Family | Whatever Gets You Through the Day |
| 2003 | Jarvis Church | Peace Songs |
| 2004 | Joe Cocker | Heart & Soul |
| David Keen | Still Strung out on U2 | |
| Jimmy Little | Life's What You Make It | |
| Tait | In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa | |
| Warren Haynes | Live at Bonnaroo | |
| Wendy Matthews | Café Naturale | |
| 2005 | Cowboy Junkies | Early 21st Century Blues |
| Shinedown | Stripped Raw and Real | |
| Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club | Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3 | |
| The Persuasions | The Persuasions Sing U2 | |
| 2006 | Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough |
| 2007 | Rockabye Baby! | Lullaby Renditions of U2 |
| 2008 | Keziah Jones | In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 |
| Jacques Stotzem | Catch the Spirit | |
| 2009 | Adam Lambert | One (American Idol Studio Version) |
| Jason and deMarco | Safe | |
| Idina Menzel | N/A | |
| 2010 | Glee Cast | Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers |
| Treyc Cohen | X Factor 2010 | |
| 2011 | Overload | Overload Live at the Apartment Sessions |
| Damien Rice | AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered | |
| 2012 | Anastacia | It's a Man's World |
| James Arthur | The X Factor UK 2012 |
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Famous quotes containing the word one:
“When one by one our ties are torn,
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to mourn,
Oh! then how sweet it is to die!”
—Anna Letitia (Aikin)
“I haven’t read one book about
A book or memorized one plot,
Or found a mind I did not doubt,
I learned one date. And then forgot.
And one by one the solid scholars
Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”
—Freya Stark (b. 1893–1993)