Listen to U2 Cover The Beatles’ “Help!” in 1987
The band was just reaching peak arena-monster status on the Joshua Tree tour.
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Cover songs are great. We rank the bestcoversongs annually as part of our year-end coverage, and have been doing so for years. Normally, though, a newer band chooses an older band like U2 or The Beatles as their cover song, and it serves as a great way to modernize and reintroduce the canon of rock music.