10 Iconic Rock Covers That Outshined The Originals

Rock music has always thrived on reinvention. Many of the early rock tunes were covers of blues and R&B songs. Rock guitarists were notorious for borrowing licks from blues songs and powering them through electric guitars and amplifiers , giving these sounds the rock ‘n’ roll treatment that appealed to a younger generation.

In the early ‘60s, bands, including The Beatles and The Rolling Stones , were expected to play mostly covers . The industry then didn’t have faith that these young bands were capable of writing songs that would sell records. There was a structure that dictated that sanctioned songwriters would write hit songs and that the bands would record them .

That all started to change when The Beatles and the Stones managed to record some of their own songs, and those