10 Greatest Rock Cover Songs Of The 1980s

10. Alone - Heart

If you're in the mood for a big, soaring 1980s power ballad (and let's face it, who isn't?), you could do much worse than to stick on Alone by Heart.

Beginning with a soft section about how desperate one lover is to confess their feelings to another, the song comes to life in the chorus, when the Wilson sisters, Ann and Nancy, dazzle with their impressively powerful vocals. It's as cheesy as it comes, but it really does scratch a certain itch.

The Wilsons were not the first to tackle this material, nor were they even the second. Alone was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, who performed it under the name i-Ten.

That version came out in 1983 and, one year later, it was covered by actors Valerie Stevenson and John Stamos on the sitcom Dreams.

Heart's attempt was released three years after that, in 1987, and has since become the definitive version. It went to number one in the US singles charts and even got nominated for a Grammy.

Not bad for a song that could have gone down as a bit in a sitcom.