Just curious. Which famous musicians have covered Prince songs in their concerts or on their albums?

And by musicians i dont mean these autotune pop singers, i mean respected musicians whether you like them or not

The two i can think off are Foo fighters (darling nikki) and george clinton (erotic city). Any others?

sinead o connor took nothing compares 2 u & made it huge hit,

cyndi lauper did when u were mine

Just bought Desert Eagle Discs - "The Eagle Has Landed" for £4 (double vinyl).

They have covered "Old Friends For Sale"

DoffieParker said:

sinead o connor took nothing compares 2 u & made it huge hit,

cyndi lauper did when u were mine

• When You Were Mine (Hi-Fi, Cyndi Lauper, Mitch Ryder)
• Private Joy (La Toya Jackson, Evan Rogers, Cheyne)
• Do Me Baby (Me'lisa Morgan)
• Soft & Wet (MC Hammer in a hip-hop version)
• I Wanna Be Your Lover (Corrinne Bailey Rae)
• Sexy Dancer (Peaches)
• I Feel For You (The Pointer Sisters, Chaka Khan, Mary Wells, Rebbie Jackson)
• Crazy You (Zo and Sy Smith)
• Get It Up (TLC)
• How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore (Stephanie Mills, Joshua Redman, Alicia Keys)
• Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Big Moe in a hip-hop version with different lyrics and different title)
• 1999 (Gary Numan, Adeva, Bif Naked, Matthew Good, Phish, Limp Bizkit)
• Little Red Corvette (Sandra Bernhard, The Nylons, Paul Kelly)
• Let's Pretend We're Married (Tina Turner)
• Let's Go Crazy (Incubus, Green Day, Janelle Monae)
• When Doves Cry (Ginuwine, Quindon Tarver, Damien Rice, Patti Smith, Guy Sebastian)
• Purple Rain (LeAnn Rimes, Etta James, Patti LaBelle, Randy Crawford, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Tori Amos, Foo Fighters, The Hollies, Peter Murphy)
• I Would Die 4 U (Raheem DeVaughn, Space Cowboy, Of Montreal)
• Take Me With U (Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings)
• The Beautiful Ones (Mariah Carey, Dru Hill, Beyonce)
• Darling Nikki (Foo Fighters, Rebecca Romijin)
• Baby I'm a Star (Tina Turner)
• Computer Blue (Of Montreal)
• Raspberry Beret (Hindu Love Gods, D'Angelo, Warren Zevon)
• Pop Life (Dead or Alive)
• Kiss (Tom Jones and Art of Noise, Age of Chance, Westlife)
• Sign O' The Times (Chaka Khan, Nina Simone)
• If I Was Your Girlfriend (TLC, Esperanza Spaulding,
• U Got the Look (Gary Numan, Ween)
• I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Jordan Knight, The Goo Goo Dolls)
• Alphabet St. (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• I Wish U Heaven (Darren Hayes)
• Thieves in the Temple (Herbie Hancock)
• Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O'Connor, of course)
• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Alex Bugnon)
• Don't Talk 2 Strangers (Chaka Khan)

[Edited 5/17/11 11:45am]

Does Hammer's song "Pray" count since it has a sample of the keyboard part from "When Doves Cry" in it?

"Manic Monday" (The Bangles)

"Cool" (Snoop Dogg)

"Walk Don't Walk" (Robert Randolph & Family Band)

"I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" (The Eels)

"Starfish And Coffee" (Matt Nathanson)

"When You Were Mine" (Tegan and Sara)

Alphabet Street and Shockadelica make up a big chunk of Ween's "LMLYP". They also insert part of "Kiss" into "Voodoo Lady" when they play it live.

I have never heard of Ween covering "U Got the Look". They have done "Housequake" though...

[Edited 5/17/11 13:49pm]

DerekH said:

Does Hammer's song "Pray" count since it has a sample of the keyboard part from "When Doves Cry" in it?

"Manic Monday" (The Bangles)

"Cool" (Snoop Dogg)

"Walk Don't Walk" (Robert Randolph & Family Band)

"I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" (The Eels)

"Starfish And Coffee" (Matt Nathanson)

"When You Were Mine" (Tegan and Sara)

I guess you can say it kinda does. I did include "Soft & Wet" (he had it titled as "She's Soft & Wet" on his "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" album).

Erotic City

• George Clinton
• Arto Lindsay
• Semisonic
• Berlin
• Yo La Tengo
• Supafly
• Beck
• Chris Whitley

Bobby Jimmy did a song called "Milkshake", that's a parody of "Housequake". Didn't P (or someone who works for him) stop Weird Al from doing parodies of his songs back in the 80s?

DerekH said:

Bobby Jimmy did a song called "Milkshake", that's a parody of "Housequake". Didn't P (or someone who works for him) stop Weird Al from doing parodies of his songs back in the 80s?

Living Colour - 17 days

Meshell Ndegeocello did 3 concerts of Prince covers only (last month).

[Edited 5/17/11 18:28pm]

Timmy84 said:

DerekH said:

Bobby Jimmy did a song called "Milkshake", that's a parody of "Housequake". Didn't P (or someone who works for him) stop Weird Al from doing parodies of his songs back in the 80s?

oww, so he did some parodies? i like Weird Al, especially his 'interview' with Paul McCartney. I really want to see him covering Prince.

You guys forgot about Beyonce. In her and Jay-Z's song Bonnie & Clyde she sings one verse from If I Was Your Girlfriend. Does it count ? And Missing Persons covered I Would Die 4 U. Buddy Miles covered Baby, I'm a Star!.

Ok slightly off topic but I am pretty sure that Kelly Rowland is sampling Prince on her "Bump Like This" song.

Anybody know?

Rebecca DeMornay ("Little Red Corvette")

Tuesday Knight ("Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad")

Sandra Bernhard ("Little Red Corvette")

*more actresses than musicians (at least Rebecca anyway)

Duff McKagan of Guns 'n' Roses covered "Bambi" I think but I'm not sure... I know he said that was his favorite Prince song.

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

Timmy84 said:

oww, so he did some parodies? i like Weird Al, especially his 'interview' with Paul McCartney. I really want to see him covering Prince.

You guys forgot about Beyonce. In her and Jay-Z's song Bonnie & Clyde she sings one verse from If I Was Your Girlfriend. Does it count ? And Missing Persons covered I Would Die 4 U. Buddy Miles covered Baby, I'm a Star!.

I saw Weird Al in an interview about ten years ago and he mentioned Prince was the only artist to ever say no to him, not allowing him to parody his music. He said Prince takes his music very seriously.

John Mayer appearently covered Little red Corvette, didnt he?

Jeff Cohen (Chunk from "The Goonies) covered "Baby I'm a Star" on "Kids Incorporated".

Chuck E Cheese did an lyrically altered version of Chaka's version of "I feel for you"

Marcus Miller also covered ´Girls and Boys´ and ´Purple Rain´.

Niacin (the group featuring Billy Sheehan and Dennis Chambers) covered ´Purple Rain´ also.

Does anybody know of more covers by jazz/fusion artists?

She's always in my hair

D'angelo & Somethin' for the People

And to name a few more (but the list is endless):

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake – I Feel For You

Ice-T – Head

Simple – Minds - Sign O` The Times

Foo Fighters – Drive Me Wild

Robyn - Jack U Off

Timmy84 said:

Erotic City

• George Clinton
• Arto Lindsay
• Semisonic
• Berlin
• Yo La Tengo
• Supafly
• Beck
• Chris Whitley

and Dump

I gotta hear Beck's though

SEANMAN said:

Rebecca DeMornay ("Little Red Corvette")

Tuesday Knight ("Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad")

Sandra Bernhard ("Little Red Corvette")

*more actresses than musicians (at least Rebecca anyway)

Speaking of actors, they sang "Kiss" in a Glee episode.

Julia Roberts - Kiss

Harlepolis said:

Julia Roberts - Kiss

Harlepolis said:

Julia Roberts - Kiss

GeminiBrown said:

She's always in my hair

D'angelo & Somethin' for the People

I remember hearing their versions years ago. I loved D'Angelo's take of it.

Hilary Swank serenaded Gerard Butler with "Gett Off" in the movie P.S. I Luv U