# Bands where all members have sung lead vocals at least once **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599 "2018-01-27T20:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/41 "2018-01-28T15:30:27Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m willing to stand corrected, but I think neither (Mick) Fleetwood nor Mac (John McVie) has ever sung lead. Though Fleetwood Mac do certainly belong in the separate but overlapping category of bands with at least three strong lead vocalists. Thanks, I’m not sure about that, but I think you are right. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/42 "2018-01-28T23:35:53Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Yeah, nothing wrong with just wanting to live your life. > > I caught an interview with Roger Taylor years and years ago. The interviewer asked him what John was doing these days and his reply was, “Not much”. Exactly so. He has enough money to never have to worry about money, and live very comfortably. He’s apparently still involved in decisions for the band, and reviewing the finances. Every time that Roger and Brian start a new project, they still reach out to John to see if he wants to be involved, though they realize that the answer will be “no.” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/43 "2018-01-29T03:07:06Z")
The final version of _Utopia_. Guitarist Todd Rundgren did lead vocals most of the time, but the other three musicians had lead vocals on songs as well - bassist Kasim Sulton, keyboardist Roger Powell and drummer John “Willie” Wilcox. And those guys [could seriously sing.](https://youtu.be/hTtm0uiFrqQ) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/44 "2018-01-29T03:22:01Z")
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Randy sings lead on many songs. Fred Turner sings lead on a few. Fred sings their best known song, Let It Ride. The other guys come and go. They may be hired only for tours. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/45 "2018-01-29T03:26:04Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Bachman-Turner Overdrive > > Randy sings lead on many songs. Fred Turner sings lead on a few. Fred sings their best known song, Let It Ride. > > The other guys come and go. They may be hired only for tours. That explains Bachman and Turner, but what did Overdrive sing? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/46 "2018-01-29T04:37:26Z")
I can’t say “everybody,” but a LOT of past and present members of the Doobie Brothers have sung lead: Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, Michael McDonald and Cornelius Bumphus for sure. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/47 "2018-01-29T06:10:39Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > It required googling but there were 1-2 songs that Topper Headon and Paul Simonon were given Ringo-like privileges to sing. - Guns of Brixton\* wasn’t a Ringo-on-_Little Help_-like thing, that was Simonon’s baby. ---
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/48 "2018-01-29T08:45:55Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m willing to stand corrected, but I think neither (Mick) Fleetwood nor Mac (John McVie) has ever sung lead. Though Fleetwood Mac do certainly belong in the separate but overlapping category of bands with at least three strong lead vocalists. Actually, as long as spoken-word songs are counted as “vocals”, then Mick Fleetwood did indeed perform the lead vocals just once, on a song called “These Strange Times” on the 1995 album _Time_. On a related note, has any other band had as many different lead vocalists as Fleetwood Mac? Throughout the many different lineups in their long history, I can count at least 13 different singers who sang (or spoke, in Mick’s case) lead vocals for at least one song. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/49 "2018-01-29T10:01:08Z")
If you include the final recordings when the band were either breaking up (or, arguably had broken up) all the members of British Punk legends The **Sex Pistols** sung lead vocals. **Johnny Rotten** (the main vocalist), **Sid Vicious** (bass) **Paul Cook** (drummer) and **Steve Jones** (guitar.) Cook and Jones each recorded lead vocals on different (album and single) versions of **Silly Thing**. I don’t think original bass player Glen Matlock recorded anything with lead vocals but he certainly sang backing vocals live. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/50 "2018-01-29T12:38:59Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The final version of _Utopia_. Guitarist Todd Rundgren did lead vocals most of the time, but the other three musicians had lead vocals on songs as well - bassist Kasim Sulton, keyboardist Roger Powell and drummer John “Willie” Wilcox. And those guys [could seriously sing.](https://youtu.be/hTtm0uiFrqQ) Damn, I should have remembered Utopia. I saw them in concert once or twice, and not only could they all sing, they also all swapped instruments a few times. (Hey, that gives me an idea for another thread… :D) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/51 "2018-01-29T14:18:27Z")
> [@RobotDevilDog](#): > > On a related note, has any other band had as many different lead vocalists as Fleetwood Mac? Arguably, the Alan Parsons Project. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/52 "2018-01-29T14:31:26Z")
ABBA loses, but on a technicality. Benny Andersson did not SING the opening lines to “Move On,” he spoke them. He once said he would never sing lead vocals, because his singing voice sounded terrible by itself. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/53 "2018-01-29T16:12:59Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > ABBA loses, but on a technicality. Benny Andersson did not SING the opening lines to “Move On,” he spoke them. He once said he would never sing lead vocals, because his singing voice sounded terrible by itself. Oh yeah? :) ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/54 "2018-01-29T17:01:26Z")
Jimi Hendrix did most of the singing for his Experience, but Noel Redding sang lead on “She’s So Fine” from _Axis: Bold as Love_ and Mitch Mitchell sang “Little Miss Strange” on _Electric Ladyland_. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/55 "2018-01-29T21:40:19Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Damn, I should have remembered Utopia. I saw them in concert once or twice, and not only could they all sing, they also all swapped instruments a few times. (Hey, that gives me an idea for another thread… :D) I saw one tour where, for reasons known only to Todd, they did Ravel’s Bolero, and all of them took turns on horns. Todd had some decent sax chops back then, and Roger Powell started out as a trumpet prodigy before he moved to keys. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/56 "2018-01-29T21:53:12Z")
The Bangles. I think I should be embarrassed that I know that; since I’m 54 y/o man. 🙂 Oh well, I found that out because I recently RE-discovered how hot Susanna Hoffs is at 57 years old! > **[Bangles star Susanna Hoffs Looks AMAZING At 57!](https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/susanna-hoffs-bangles-walk-egyptian-eternal-flame/)** > > 30 years after the Bangles were big on the pop music scene, Susanna Hoffs looks better than ever! She must have an Eternal Flame... ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/57 "2018-01-29T23:41:57Z")
**Green Day**. Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead singer, but bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool have both sung lead on the odd song. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/58 "2018-01-30T04:01:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Damn, I should have remembered Utopia. I saw them in concert once or twice, and not only could they all sing, they also all swapped instruments a few times. (Hey, that gives me an idea for another thread… :D) Everyone in Utopia was a songwriter as well, with Kasim having written the closest thing they had to a hit. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/59 "2018-01-30T23:44:25Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Phish? I’m not confident, but I think so. Definitely Phish…Fishman sings a few songs every tour, Mike gets a song or two a show, Page as well, and Trey leads the majority… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599/60 "2018-02-14T19:52:17Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > The Monkees, although if you’ve heard “Auntie Griselda,” you know why Peter Tork didn’t sing more often. that’s a humorous song, the bad sound is intentional. Pete sounds much better, say, in his part of “Words” (Micky singing the other parts, it’s a pretty even match, to my ears) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-where-all-members-have-sung-lead-vocals-at-least-once/807599.md?page=4)