The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

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 ".

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

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.

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

The album's lead single, " She's Every Woman " peaked at number-one on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, " The Fever " ( a cover of an Aerosmith song ) only peaked at number 23, becoming Brooks's first released Country single to not chart on the Top 10.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal.

Kid Rock will release " Rebel Soul " on November 19, 2012, with the lead single being Let's Ride ( Mideast Battle Hymn ).. Another possible track could be, " Redneck Paradise "-a song co-written with brothers, Eric & Jason Young of the southern rock group: The Young Brothers.

It was also significant for being the first song cycle by an African-American pop musician ( group leader Arthur Lee was African American as was lead guitarist John Echols ).

In the song " Power and Glory " from Lou Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss, Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, " I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead "

Lemmy has occasionally played electric or acoustic guitar, notably on the acoustic song " I Ain't No Nice Guy " from Motörhead's March Ör Die album, the title track on 1996's Overnight Sensation, " Limb from Limb " on Overkill ( on which he plays the second lead break ), " Boogeyman " on Rock ' n ' Roll, and a mouth harp on " Whorehouse Blues " from the Inferno album.

Although four songs were released as singles to promote the album ( lead single " Everything I Need ", " Man With Two Hearts ", " Maria ", and " Hard Luck Story "), only the first song charted in the US, and that only at No. 47.

Steve Bulmarck and the other men ponder the lonely nomadic life they lead in the song " They Call the Wind Maria ".

The lead track, " Tom Sawyer ", is probably the band's best-known song with " Limelight " also receiving satisfactory responses from listeners and radio stations.

This is most evident during live shows when Lee must play bass, supply lead vocals, manipulate keyboards, and trigger pedals during the course of a performance, as in the song " Tom Sawyer ".

This spurred the lead single " Walk This Way ", a cover of the classic hard rock song by Aerosmith.

It was preceded by the lead single, a dance version of the song " Hang with Me " from Body Talk Pt.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

Hell also co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song " Never Mind " by The Heads, a 1996 collaborative effort between three former members of Talking Heads.

* City & Colour covered the song " Grinnin ' In Your Face " on numerous occasions, where lead singer Dallas Green performed the song a cappella.

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

Gray Eyes was in the lead.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

This intellectual approach to spiritual life suited me well, because I was never content to lead a divided life.

I could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at some of the pictures ; ;

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

this was the point at which he finally took the lead in Cubist innovation away from Braque, never again to relinquish it.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

It was a lead pipe cinch.

He was holding the piece of lead pipe out to me.

Richard M. Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T. Hallowell's Milties Miss.

As the third round of the tournament began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

As the battle progressed, Zollicoffer was killed, Crittenden was unable to lead the Confederate force since he was probably intoxicated and the Confederates were turned back and routed by a Union bayonet charge, suffering 533 casualties from their force of 4, 000.

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

Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently in disco than in rock.

House of Pain is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again.

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.

Smith provides lead vocals on the title track to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea's 2012 debut solo EP titled Helen Burns.

Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s.

Waddy Wachtel has been Nicks's lead guitarist for most of her solo career, featuring prominently on all of her albums to date.

His lip had toughened from earlier, more tentative years ; on nine of the Wolverines ' recorded titles he proceeds commandingly from lead to opening solo without any need for a respite from playing.

Announcing that the two pieces would be separated by an " interlude " played by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves ' 28-chorus marathon solo whipping the crowd into a frenzy, leading the Maestro to play way beyond the curfew time despite urgent pleas from Festive organizer George Wein to bring the program to an end.

They are played by solo instrumentalists or by bands / ensembles, most frequently with lead instruments such as accordion fiddle, diatonic accordion, hardingfele and nyckelharpa.

He called in Clapton to perform the lead guitar on the song and it was decided to cut one verse entirely and add another guitar solo towards the end of the song.

Following their initial dissolution in 1982 Cold Chisel lead vocalist Jimmy Barnes embarked on a successful solo career that has continued from the 1980s to the present.

*" 101 " is a song on the self-titled solo album by Tiger Army's lead singer, Nick 13, referencing the route between his home in Northern California to his current residence in Los Angeles.

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

* DIES, the name of the solo project of Josh Dies, lead singer of Showbread

He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to lead a solo career.

Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist for the rock band The Police.

Sting's performance at the Secret Policeman's Other Ball – his first live appearances as a solo performer – was prominently featured on the album of the show ( being its lead tracks ) and in the feature film of the show.

* John Waite – musician, now solo but formerly lead singer of the bands Bad English and The Babys.

Although he has released several solo albums since the mid-1990s, Roe is primarily known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for the rock band The 77s.

" Stonehill would later provide backing vocals on a number of DA's projects including Doppelganger and would join DA's lead singer, Terry Taylor, for a duet on his first solo project, Knowledge & Innocence, entitled A Song of Innocence.

Neal played keyboards and was the lead vocalist, as well as being the primary songwriter before leaving the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career.