More Than Words - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

Cover versions include:

• Flip Da Scrip in 1997 sampled the song in their 1997 single "I Never Told You".
• BBMak in 1999-2000, on their first debut album, released in Asia in 1999, and as a b-side in 1999 for the UK "Back Here" single.
• Westlife in 1999, on their first album, Westlife.
• David Cassidy in 2003 for the album A Touch of Blue.
• Naturally 7 in 2003 a cappella for the album What is It?.
• Owen in 2004, as a Japanese bonus track on his album I Do Perceive.
• Frankie J in 2005, as the third single from his album The One.
• mink, a Japanese-Korean singer, did a bossa nova version on her first album mink ~prologue~.
• Aloha Sex Juice performed in Hawaiian in the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
• "The Gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia sang the last verse in a capella while taking shots in their South Philly bar in the season two episode, "The Gang Goes Jihad".
• Ruben Studdard covered the song on his 2009 album, Love Is.
• Mike Kinsella of Owen has performed covers of the song live, with versions appearing on the Japanese import of I do perceive and on The Seaside EP in 2009.
• Mike Myers performs the song along with Manu Narayan in the film The Love Guru, in a version featuring a sitar.
• Amateur Transplants recorded a parody of the song entitled "Northern Birds".
• Tony Lucca and JC Chasez in 1991, performed the song on the Mickey Mouse Club.
• Walters & Kazha performed it in 2005 as a live performance.
• Serbian singer and participant of reality/talent show Operacija trijumf, Vukašin Brajić, has sung this song twice at the show's gala evenings.
• Varsity Fanclub posted a cover on their YouTube channel.
• Brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo covered the song at her show in Rock in Rio IV in September 30, 2011.
• Performed in the Broadway musical Rock Of Ages.
• ApologetiX parodied the song as “More than Works”.