celebrating this Easter 2024, RockFM has decided to bring you a series of compilations of songs that you probably don’t know for one reason or another. In this case, we have asked ourselves that, as in the Beatles hOh songs that they didn’t even write Paul McCarthney neither John Lennon, Could the same have happened in other bands? That’s why our first compilation is about songs that the bands’ lead singers did not sing, and that other members of the group did.
1. Pink Floyd, “Have a Cigar”
Pink Floyd always had a long list of singers, from Syd Barrett and David Gilmour to Richard Wright and Roger Waters. But they couldn’t quite understand the lyrics of this scathing criticism of the music industry. They brought in Roy Harper, an English folk singer, from sessions in a nearby studio in Abbey Roadand finally he did it.
2.Queen, “’39”
All members of What in they composed for the group, but Freddie Mercury used to sing them. That seemed fair since, after all, he was Freddie Mercury. “39”, directed by Brian May, from his fourth studio work, is one of the best-known anomalies. The song remained in the Queen song charts for decadesalthough Mercury sang it in concert from the beginning.
3. The Police, “On Any Another Day”
The first non-Sting voice to appear on an album by Police It was one of three songs written by the drummer Stewart Copeland for Reggatta de Blanc . Their fights over what material would make the final track list, and even who would sing what, became legendary. Perhaps in reference to those arguments, “On Any Other Day” It begins with Copeland saying, “The others are complete nonsense.”
4. Guns N’ Roses, “14 years”
Izzy Stradlinan early key songwriting collaborator, came to the forefront just before moving on. “14 Years”, the second song on ‘Use Your Illusion II’, was one of their four lead vocals from this era (along with “Dust N’ Bones”, “You Ain’t the First”, and “Double Talkin’ Jive”). Stradlin announced his departure shortly after, although he memorably sang “14 Years” during a brief reunion in 2012.
5. U2, “Numb”
This is not the first U2 voice The Edgebut “Numb” It is the most famous. Released as the lead single from Zooropa, it followed ““Van Diemen’s Land” from 1988’s Rattle and Hum and “Seconds” from 1983’s War, among others.
