Covers
On The Dandy Warhols song "Welcome To The Monkey House" Courtney Taylor-Taylor sings "When Michael Jackson dies, we're covering 'Blackbird.'" Keeping their promise, the band recorded a cover shortly after Michael Jackson passed away in 2009.
Sarah McLachlan has also covered it, and Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt on the popular Fox TV show "GLEE" Covered it in the episode titled "Original Song."
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Here a pretty Baby lies
Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stirre
Th’ easie earth that covers her.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)