Tribute Bands
Very popular, no? Try to sound like someone else, do their songs, they've done your marketing for you, profit ensues. Sometimes quite a big profit, e.g. Bjorn Again, sometimes less so, but the pubs are full of them.
'Twas ever thus; you could say that the Goodman band playing Fletcher Henderson charts was a Henderson tribute band, and in the early 60s there were things like Ral Donner doing Elvis impersonations.

1961 England was a pale shadow; Cliff Richard was a pale shadow and Dave Sampson was Cliff's pale shadow. Sampson tried to sound like Cliff at his drippiest. Which was plenty drippy. "Sadly" Sampson was on the same record label as Cliff, so he wasn't likely to get the pick of Cliff-suitable material. Short career for Sampson, though he's still alive and playing revival shows now.

Anyways, Sampson had a backing band, the Hunters, and they had their own recording contract, on Philips (or Fontana, anyway the label was blue and the records didn't get played on Luxembourg), they did instrumentals and I bought one, "Teen Scene". Imaginative title, probably a product of the Philips A & R Dept. I thought it was good, almost as good as a Duane Eddy record and way better than anything by the Shadows.
I never realised they'd made an LP. In fact they made 2, now remastered & re-released as a double and downloaded from Yahoo out of curiosity by me.
It's worth what I paid for it, maybe a bit more. The main fault is material, mostly they play covers of current-ish hits, but the execution is really very good. Lots of variation in tone, definitley some real thought went into the use of cheap (well, bloody expensive with 33% purchase tax, but YKWIM) instruments and really good drumming. I was pleasantly surprised & shan't wipe it.