Listening to Bon Jovi doing Drift Away on some Slippery When Wet show back in 1986. Back then they played this song as a second cover after Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town.

That actually makes me wonder what they're doing nowadays in terms of covers. Setlist from their 2003 gig in Hyde Park shows they haven't forgotten about covers :)

The Kinks - Lola
Isley Brothers - Twist And Shout

and excerpts of
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street (is there anyone who hasn't done that one?)
Neil Young - Rockin' All Over The World
Isley Brothers - Shout

Speaking of Sympathy covers. A very good one and a bad one spring to mind. The very good : Tiamat on their Skeleton Skeletron album. The bad one : Guns N Roses on the Interview With The Vampire soundtrack. The Tiamat version sounds soooo much more suitable for that film!

Back to Drift Away. The original was done by Dobie Gray back in 1973. Never heard of the man, but according to this site he wasn't exactly a steady force in the top of the charts. Love Jovi's rendition, though. Looking for when they stopped performing it, I just ran into a nice list of covers Jovi have done :) Beware for popups btw. Looks like they did it a few times up until 1996.