Who Wants To Live Forever - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

  • In 1988, Elaine Paige, recorded an album of Queen songs, and included a strong 'power ballad' version of the song.
  • Seal performed a live version of this song at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, noting that the song made him cry when he first heard it.
  • In 1995, Jennifer Rush recorded a version with Brian May on her Out of My Hands album. It featured May on lead-vocals for a verse plus backing vocals and guitar work.
  • Luciano Pavarotti called Giorgia for his charity concert Pavarotti & Friends where she performed the song. The recorded Live-CD was released in 1995.
  • Shirley Bassey covered this song on her 1995 album Sings the Movies, and performed it on "A Royal Gala" at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996.
  • Dune recorded an orchestrated version on the 1997 album Forever. It was also released as the first single from the album.
  • The song is featured in the Queen jukebox musical We Will Rock You. The version that appears on the original London cast recording is sung by Tony Vincent and Hannah Jane Fox.
  • The symphonic metal band After Forever recorded a cover of this song and released it with their single "Emphasis" in 2002.
  • Sarah Brightman covered this track on her 1997 album, Time to say Goodbye.
  • Polish singer Edyta Górniak recorded a cover called "Nieśmiertelni" in 2003, released on Moja i Twoja muzyka, RMF FM compilation album.
  • In 2005, the song was covered by Breaking Benjamin on the album Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen.
  • The Ten Tenors recorded a version on their album Here's to the Heroes, released in 2006.
  • Rock Star: INXS finalist, MiG Ayesa covered the song on his debut album MiG in 2007.
  • Katharine McPhee covered this song on the "Queen" themed week on American Idol's fifth season.
  • Eva Avila covered this song on the "1980's" themed week on Canadian Idol's fourth season.
  • In 2007, the song was covered by the band Gregorian on their album Masters of Chant Chapter VI.
  • Kady Malloy covered this song during "80's" week on American Idol's seventh season.
  • Jonathan Ansell covered this song for his 2nd album Forever, released in 2008
  • Rhydian Roberts covered this song on his debut album Rhydian, released on the 24th of November 2008.
  • Katherine Jenkins covered this song on her seventh album Believe, released on the 26th of October 2009.
  • Stacey Solomon performed the song on the sixth series of The X Factor.
  • David Garrett covered this song for his 8th album David Garrett, released in 2009.
  • Kitty Brucknell performed the song on series eight of The X-Factor
  • Jonathan and Charlotte performed a cover of this song in Italian on their 2012 album Together following their second place finish on the 2012 season of Britain's Got Talent.

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