Band Covers
The American rock group Guns N' Roses released a cover of the hymn. The cover was generally not well received and was largely unpopular among Finnish listeners.
The symphonic metal band Nightwish also provided a cover as part of the Dark Passion Play tour, featuring Troy Donockley on the uilleann pipes.
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Famous quotes containing the words band and/or covers:
“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)
“And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us worships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.”
—Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (A.D. c. 340–402)