Procol Harum did Bach in "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", Dan Fogelberg took the meldody from Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and turned it into his "Same Old Lang Syne", The Nice did Sibelius and Bach, Barry Manilow's "Could This Be Magic" is basically a Prelude by Chopin (and he even shared with him the writer's credit), and dozens of others abound.

Plus every Symphony Orchestra in the world is basically a Cover Band. They don't write their own music.

How many great jazz artists covered Broadway show tunes? Can't count them all.

There is nothing wrong with playing songs written by other people. There is nothing wrong with writing your own songs. There is nothing wrong with writing songs for other people to play.

This whole idea that doing someone else's songs makes you a "cover band" and is a negative term is something invented by people who haven't got anything better to do but try to elevate themselves by cutting other people down. But the joke is on them, IMHO it doesn't elevate them one bit, instead it puts a dark cloud over their name.

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