* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

The group recorded lead singer Matt Thiessen making drum noises and played them with electronic drums to make the song.

Somerville went on to have success as lead singer of The Communards and as a solo artist.

The lead singer of Splash was former Tight Fit singer Steve Grant.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

Quite evidently, careers within the sports and entertainment sphere such as being an elite professional athlete on a sports team, or an entertainment figure such as a pop singer that dominate the pop music charts frequently, or a television actor with lead roles on prime-time shows have strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

Orange was also the lead singer on the Top 10 hits, " Nightshift " and " Brick House " among others.

In 1983, Skyler Jett, replaced Lionel Richie as the lead singer for The Commodores, and toured the world and performed in over 32 countries in a two year span.

Blue October's Any Man in America is a concept album about the divorce and custody battle of the lead singer, Justin Furstenfeld from his wife.

He was the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995.

Steve Hogarth, lead singer for Marillion, was also present at the funeral and performed the song " Out of This World " solo.

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

Robert Schwartzman is the lead singer in the band Rooney and appeared in The Princess Diaries as well as having small appearances in several films, including his cousin Sofia's The Virgin Suicides.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

* Aaron Weiss ( born 1979 ), lead singer of mewithoutYou

* Safeway Goya, born Fred de Rafols, American musician, lead singer of The Nobodys

Joe Babcock took over as lead singer after Owens left the show.

* Colin Meloy, lead singer and songwriter of The Decemberists.

" The release of the album's lead single " Country House " played a part in Blur's public rivalry with Manchester band Oasis termed " The Battle of Britpop ".

" The release of the album's lead single " Country House " played a part in Blur's public rivalry with Manchester band Oasis termed " The Battle of Britpop ".

However, with the death of Kurt Cobain and the subsequent break-up of Nirvana in 1994, touring problems for Pearl Jam and the departure of Alice in Chains ' lead singer Layne Staley in 1996, the genre began to decline, partly to be overshadowed by Britpop and more commercial sounding post-grunge.

* Justine Frischmann ( born 1969 ), Britpop musician, lead singer of Elastica

Formed in 1993, they were popularly labelled as a Britpop band and often drew comparisons to The Smiths because of their Morrissey-esque lead singer, Martin Rossiter.

" Stutter " is a song by the Britpop group Elastica and was written by lead singer Justine Frischmann.

Sharleen Spiteri ( born 7 November 1967 ) is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of Scottish rock / blues band Texas, and often denoted as the Queen of Britpop.

Donna Matthews ( born Donna Lorraine Matthews, 2 December 1971, Newport, Monmouthshire ) was the lead guitarist of the Britpop band, Elastica.

Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly ( lead guitar and vocals ), Niki Sullivan ( guitar ), Joe B. Mauldin ( bass ), and Jerry Allison ( drums ).

He is best known as a founding member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.

In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour.

Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989 with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

It was based on a character ( The Bride ) and a plot that he and Kill Bills lead actress, Uma Thurman, had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction.

* Jarvis Cocker – lead singer of Pulp

; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Greenwood played lead guitar in The Weird Sisters along with fellow Radiohead member Phil Selway, former Pulp members Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey, electronica artist Jason Buckle and Add N to ( X ) member Steve Claydon.

In a surprise move, Faber announced in October 2011 that Jarvis Cocker, lead singer with Pulp would be joining as Editor-at-Large, an appointment echoing a similar role taken up by Pete Townshend of The Who in the 1980s.

The 350s dual-stylus version was also extensively used as a lead instrument by British band Pulp from 1992 to 1994.

Recent campaigns that Resistance has helped organise and lead include high school walkouts against Pauline Hanson in 1998, Books not Bombs anti-war protests in 2003, the APEC protests against George Bush in 2007 and Students Against the Pulp Mill in 2008.