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Bruce Springsteen
Prince
Neil Diamond
Townes Van Zandt
Burt Bacharach

If you ever think you will want to play in front of an audience, it is easier to get an electro/aucoustic, than to add the pick-up later.

PRIAPISMUS ...

That would be a cool name for a band.

"The Lady in Red" is not a bad song,  just a little too sappy and over played.
I do a cover of "Achy Breaky Heart" only I change the words to "The Hokey Pokey",  it always gets a laugh.

My Additions to the list are;
"Who Let the Dogs Out?"  by Baja Men
"My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas  (with a life time achivement award going to Fergie)

Hey Twist,   Dancing Girls are an Automatic Improvement to any song,  even "My Humps".

Also adding a guilty pleasure;  (Should be on the list but I like it anyway)
"Babys Got Back" by Sir Mixalot.

I prefer cover bands that mix it up a bit like;
Dread Zeppelin,  a Regge Led Zeppelin cover band,  with an Elvis impersonator for a lead singer,   Beatallica,  Beatles covers done in the style of Metallica, or Hayseed Dixie, a Country/ Bluegrass AC/DC cover band.

Most Radio in the US is gere specific, and heavily programed.  Rap will be played only on stations that specialize in it.  Country will only be played on a country station, Hard Rock on a Rock station, etc.   There are Stations which specialize in top 40 hits,  but they usualy edit out Rap songs of questionable or profane content.

I play mostly accoustic,  and play all styles and genres.   I find it more interesting and fun to mix it up a bit.

I hear ya.  Just play what works and don't worry about what any one else says.

There are only two kinds of whiskey,  there's whiskey and Good whiskey,  there ain't no bad whiskey.

Hey Zurf,  If you have Costco, or Trader Joe's near you, they sometimes have Great buys on Single Malt Scotch, In Store lables.  TJ's had 18 year old Macallen for under $50 a bottle.  (it retails at bevmo for $140)  They usually go quick.
I'll have to try the Elijah Craig.

Maybell Carter deserves a mention here.  She is very influential,  and She was Johnny Cash's Mother-in-law.

The Wind Cries Mary is my favorite Jimi song to play. 

Try breaking the parts you have trouble with down in to smaller bits, practice those bits untill you are comfortable, then put them back together.

Yngwie Malmsteen uses a scalloped fret board to achieve his lightning fast technigue,  IMHO this gives him a god awful tone. 
I prefer musicians who play with out gimmicks,  who put their solos in the content of a song to express a greater meaning or feeling, not those who use pieces simply to show off.