Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

* 2008 – The City That Care Forgot – Contributed backing vocals to the title track of Dr. John's 2008 album.

Rumbling drums and moaning backing vocals suggest that things are going from bad to worse.

", with backing vocals later dubbed on by The Picks, reached the top ten of United States and United Kingdom charts.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

* Liam Finn-guitars, keyboards, backing vocals

* Davey Lane-guitars, keyboards, backing vocals

Bowie contributed backing vocals to Lou Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.

Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, " Fame ", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar.

The Persuasions sang the background vocals on “ Crying in the Chapel ” and Cissy Houston provided a backing vocal on “ La La Love You ”.

* Bob Casale – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Enya played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their album Crann Úll ( 1980 ), although she was not officially a member of the group until the 1981 release Fuaim, when she appeared on the cover.

* Richard Tandy – keyboards, synthesisers, bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals, arranger

* Mike de Albuquerque – bass guitar, backing vocals

* Kelly Groucutt – bass guitar, backing vocals

* Dave Morgan – backing vocals, synthesisers, acoustic guitar

* Martin Smith – bass guitar, backing vocals

* Marc Mann – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals

* Matt Bissonette – bass guitar, backing vocals

* Gregg Bissonette – drums, backing vocals

* Rosie Vela – backing vocals

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

Moon also enjoyed singing, particularly giving backing vocals that involved a light-sounding falsetto, and he adored the vocal styling of Motown soul music.

He can be heard singing lead on several tracks, including " Bell Boy " ( Quadrophenia, 1973 ), " Bucket T " and " Barbara Ann " ( Ready Steady Who EP, 1966 ), and the high backing vocals on other songs, such as " Pictures Of Lily ".

* Jimmie " Bones " Trombly – keyboards, piano, organ, harmonica, backing vocals ( 1996 – present )

The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.

Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.

" The songs were firsts for Holly, not only in the use of orchestral backing players, but also the tracks were his first stereo recordings.

Gold coins were used for large purchases, payment of the military and backing of state activities.

The rings were lacquered black to prevent rusting, and were always stitched onto a backing of cloth or leather.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

In Russia the Social Democrats ' plan had the backing of Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who in July 1917 were plotting a revolt against the Russian Provisional Government, which was opposed the Power Act, as it would reduce the power of the Russian administration in the country.

Passed with overwhelming backing, the tough new gun control rules were " hoped to prevent Europe from becoming a gun-friendly culture like the United States ," in the words of the International Herald Tribune.

They were totally loyal to Stalin, and realized their regime would collapse if it lost the backing of the Soviet army — as indeed happened in 1989.

The document demonstrated that " even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

A culmination of the Albanian National Awakening were the League of Prizren ( 1878 – 1881, with the backing of sultan Abdulhamid II ) and the League of Peja, but they were unsuccessful to an Albanian independence, which occurred only in 1912, through the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

The latter were amassing forces to invade farther south in Italy, presumably with Carthaginian backing.

The confusion of the band was that for years, the Famous Flames were often mistaken for Brown's backing band ; fellow Famous Flame Byrd was also a member of the backing band at one point.

After the Elector and his Calvinist court officials drew up plans for mass conversion of the population to the new faith in February 1614, as provided for by the rule of Cuius regio, eius religio within the Holy Roman Empire, there were serious protests, with his wife backing the Lutherans.

American soldiers were not deployed in Afghanistan at the time he joined the Taliban government forces ; however, he chose to stay and fight after it was known American forces were in country and backing the Northern Alliance.

With the full backing of the United States, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) reported that the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections and hence were invalid.