Artist	Song
Bruce Springsteen	Growin' Up
from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1984)
U2	Desire
from U218 Singles (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Matchbox Twenty	3 Am
from Exile On Mainstream (2007)
Counting Crows	Rain King
from August and Everything After (1993)
Five for Fighting	The Riddle
from Two Lights (2008)
Josh Groban	You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)
from Awake (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Enrique Iglesias	Hero
from Escape (2001)
Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello	In the Darkest Place
from Painted from Memory (1998)
John Mellencamp	R.O.C.K. In the U.S.A. (A Salute to 60's Rock)
from Words & Music - John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits (2004)
The Romantics	What I Like About You
from The Romantics: Super Hits (1998)
Meat Loaf	Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
from Bat Out of Hell (2001)
Beaver Brown	On the Dark Side
from Eddie & the Cruisers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2010)

Comment:

When you’re a triple threat of an artist — a singer, a songwriter, a live force of nature — it’s only natural that [i]generations[/i] would come ’round for inspiration. Chris Isaak ripped a page from Neil’s solitary-man stylebook (heck, he’s even covered “Solitary Man”), and on “King Without a Castle” he serves up a double helping of heartbreak with a steamy side of sighs. Can it get any sadder? Absolutely. Check out Richard Ashcroft in “Break the Night With Colour,” wandering through a bleak landscape of soul-crushing isolation, building to an anguished cry of orchestral grandeur. And if any rocker could stand toe-to-toe with Diamond as a world-class showman, it’s U2’s Bono, hurling himself, voice first, over the pulse-pounding Bo Diddley beat of [i]Rattle and Hum[/i]’s “Desire.” If John Mellencamp’s “Cherry, Cherry”-inspired salute to ’60s pop, “R.O.C.K. In the U.S.A.,” and the Wagnerian theatrics of Meat Loaf’s “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” are any indication, there’s more Neil than you know in your iTunes library.

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