Other Cover Versions/samples
British dance act Less Stress recorded the song in 1990, with Katherine Wood on lead vocals. In 2005, Sarah Blasko sang the song during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne; it was also included in the tribute album She Will Have Her Way. Other artists who have covered it include Donny Osmond, Teddy Thompson, Faith No More, Paul Shaffer, Stacy, and The Kid on an episode of Kids Incorporated, Howie Day, Aiden Grimshaw, Susan Boyle and Hitomi Yaida.
Rapper Classified has sampled the riff on the song "It Ain't Over", as have Irish R&B trio Dove on their hit "Don't Dream", which became one of Ireland's biggest songs of that year and also reaching the UK Top 40.". Italian singer Antonello Venditti included his own re-written version of "Don't Dream it's Over" – "Alta Marea" – on his 1991 album Benvenuti in Paradiso, which became a hit in Italian charts; Angelina Jolie, who was then sixteen, played a seductress in the video.
The song was covered by Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Melissa Benoist (Marley Rose), Darren Criss (Blaine Anderson), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang), Heather Morris (Brittany Pierce), and Chord Overstreet (Sam Evans) in the Glee season 4 episode "Swan Song".
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