At some point during the course of many artists careers, there seems to come a time when they feel the urge to record their own interpretations of other people’s songs. Over recent years, one could get the impression, that some new acts covered top hits specifically to catapult their own names onto heavy rotation radio playlists on the back of their success. That said, covering other artists songs of varying degrees of popularity and success is a longstanding tradition in the world of popular music. It picked up big time during the beat era with bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and it is not unheard of, that a cover version became more successful than the original. But it has only been on very rare occasions, that artists have set themselves the task of releasing a whole album of covers.
