Musical Cameos
Submitted by 5intheface on Thu, 11/04/2004 - 08:25
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- Elton John on Piano for The Hollies' He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother
- George Harrison on guitar on Cream's Badge
- David Gilmour on guitar for Kate Bush's Wuthering Hieghts
- Sting on vocals on Dire Straits' Mony for Nothing
- John Lennon on backing vocals for David Bowie's Fame
- Mick Jagger on backing vocals for Carly Simon's You're so vain
- Jeff Beck on guitar for Tina Turners's Private Dancer
- Bono on guitar on Roy Orbinson's She's a Mystery to Me
- Ray Charles doing handclaps on The Archies's Sugar Sugar
- Bootsy Collins on bass on James Brown's Get up
- Michael Jackson on backing vocals for Rockwell's Somebody's watching me
- Johnny Depp on slide guitar for Oasis' Fade In-Out
- Stevie Ray Vaughn on David Bowie's China Girl
- Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson's Beat It
- Cher on backing vocals for The Crystals' Da Doo Ron Ron
- Donovan on backing vocals for The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
- Mick Jagger among many others on The Beatles' All You Need is Love
- Billy Preston on piano on The Beatles' Get Back
- Holly Johnson on backing vocals for ABC's SOS
- Billy Joel on piano for The Shangri-Las' Leader of the Pack
- Chaka Khan on Backing vocals for Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love
- Luther Vandross on backing vocals for Chic's Le Freak
- Stevie Wonder on harmonica for Chaka Khan's I Feel For You
- Kirsty MacColl on Backing vocals for The Happy Mondays' Hallelujah
- Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals for The Smiths' Hand in Glove
- Paul Weller on guitar on Oasis' Champagne Supernova
- Rick Wakeman on synthesiser on David Bowie's A Space Oddity
- Mark King on Bass for Midge Ure's If I Was
- Herb Alpert on trumpet on UB40's Rat in Me Kitchen
- The Average White Band as backing band for Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling
- Kate Bush on backing vocals on Peter Gabriel's Games without Frontiers
- Tim Reyolds on guitar (solo) on Dave Matthew's Crush
- John Lennon on guitar for Elton John's cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- Brian Adams on back up vocals on Glass Tiger's Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)and For Heaven's sake... My heart would break
- James Taylor on background on Steve Winwood's Back in the Highlife and I'm back in the highlife
- Eric Clapton on guitar on the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Sinead O'Connor with her boyfriend at the time,
- Wayne Shorter and Steve Gadd's transcendence on Steely Dan's Aja
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More to come
GREAT idea for a list. I'll be looking forward to more.
Stevie Ray Vaughn on David Bowie's China Girl
Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson's Beat It
Thank you for the additions. I didn't know that Stevie played with Bowie.
How about a really obscure one? It won't fit on one line so it doesn't matter to me if you add it to your list or not.
George Harrison, guitar
Klaus Voorman, bass
Carole King, electric piano
Tom Scott, saxophone
Billy Preston, organ and
Nicky Hopkins, piano
as Tyrone Shoelaces & the Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band doing "Basketball Jones" on Cheech and Chong's "Los Cochinos". Edit as you wish, ~ ;^)
That's pretty cool, I am not dure how I am going to fit that, but I think it would be worth noting. That you very much!
This is a wonderful reminder of what it was like to be enthralled with music when young.
John Lennon (as "Dr. Winston O. Boogie") on Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"... guitar
Brian Adams singing back up vocals on Glass Tiger's "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"... "For Heaven's sake... My heart would break"
James Taylor doing background on Steve Winwood's "Back in the Highlife"... "I'm back in the highlife" on the outro
Chaka Khan on the intro to Steve Winwood's "Bring Me A Higher Love"
Stevie Nicks dueting with Kenny Loggins on "Whenever I Call You Friend"... "Now I know my life has given me more than memories."
Phil Rizzuto's play-by-play for Meatloaf's "paradise by the Dashboard Light"... "Holy Cow! I think he's gonna make it!"
Eric Clapton playing guitar on the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"... George Harrison brought him in because the rest of the Beatles weren't taking his song seriously enough.
Neneh Cherry (daughter of Don and sister to Eagle-Eye) singing along with Youssou N'Dour on his "7 Seconds"
Youssou N'Dour with Peter Gabriel on "Shaking the Tree"... A remix of which is on the Peter Gabriel Greatest Hit cd of the same name.
Sinead O'Connor with her boyfriend at the time, Peter Gabriel, on "Blood of Eden" and "Come Talk To Me"
Peter Gabriel's electrifying response on "Fallen Angel" to Robbie Robertson's exhortation, "Come down Gabriel, blow your horn"
Buffy St. Marie lending devestating emotional weight to "Sons and Daughters" by the Neville Brothers... "You can't stop running waters, You can't kill the fire that burns inside, Don't deny our flesh and blood, Don't forsake our sons and daughters"
Bruce Springsteen has made several charity appearances on the solo albums of Clarence Clemmons, Southside Johnny and Patti Scialfa
Freddie Hubbard's blistering outro to Billy Joel's "Zanzibar"
Wayne Shorter and Steve Gadd's transcendence on Steely Dan's "Aja"
John Prine's contribution to the Cowboy Junkies' "If You were the Woman and I was the Man"
Natalie Merchant lending her voice to Billy Bragg's "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
Maceo Parker blowing on Living Color's "Elvis Is Dead"
...and absolutely everyone who made up Roy Orbison's band for A Black and White Night .
Oh snap! I cannot believe I forgot Clapton on While My Guitar Gently Weeps! And I got that new Whayne Shorter album (the greatest hits one) for christmas, it has Aja on it and it's pretty damn cool. The whole album rules...
wuhf! What a nice gift... I'm so happy for you. Ben Ratliff did a piece on Shorter in the NYT just before Christmas. It was really cool because it came with its own musical examples/soundtrack. Shorter is frustrating. He spent twenty years being a genius and then for thirty years we've known he was a genius and he's spent his time doing other things. It took me a while to come around to the opinion that he was a better composer than he was a player. It's just that not everyone can play his songs.
But what I meant to say was: Steve Gadd! The story is that he sat down, sight read an eight minute chart and laid down the greatest drumming performance in popular music. He says that he took two run-throughs. I like the myth better, but even so... golly! I think that AJDaGreat just got Aja The Album. Hopefully he said what I'm saying: "wuhf! What a nice gift... I'm so happy for you."
Madonna on backing vocals for Nick Scotti's Get Over
Madonna (credited as Lulu) on backing vocals on Peter Cetera's Scheherazade
Tori Amos on backing vocals for Sandra Bernhard's version of Little Red Corvette
Trent Reznor on backing vocals on Tori Amos' Past The Mission