1981 10 Jan. 22/1 But the basic hardware still sounds very different from their own (especially, poor Dave, the synthesisers) lending them the air of a Top of The Pops Stranglers cover band.
2000 F. Minganti in H. Fehrenbach & U. G. Poiger vii. 153 Hundreds of cover bands were born who spread the new sounds across the Italian peninsula.