The Worst Cover Song Ever

23 June 2008
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According to the UK's Total Guitar Magazine, Celine Dion's cover version of the AC/DC track "You Shook Me All Night Long" has been voted the worst cover song. The 40-year-old singer has luckily never released the song, but performed it as a duet with Anastacia in Las Vegas in 2002, as you can see in the video below.

The "worst cover version" Top 5 features also Sugababes and Westlife a.o., while the "best cover version" list is topped by Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower". Here's how both charts look like:

Worst cover songs:

1. Celine Dion - You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)
2. Girls Aloud & Sugababes - Walk This Way (Run DMC & Aerosmith)
3. Westlife - More Than Words (Extreme)
4. Will Young - Light My Fire (The Doors)
5. The Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall (Oasis)

Best cover songs:

1. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
2. The Beatles - Twist and Shout (The Top Notes)
3. Guns N' Roses - Live and Let Die (Wings)
4. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
5. Muse - Feeling Good (Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse)

Celine Dion - "You Shook Me All Night Long" (live)

Source: blabbermouth.net