Could be good, could be bad. I’ll start with the obvious…
Take On Me - A-ha
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
Cygnus X-1 - Rush
Hemispheres - Rush
Xanadu - Rush
Time Stand Still - Rush
The Big Money - Rush
More Than a Feeling - Boston
"I closed my eyes and she slipped away. She slipped away-Aaaaay-AAAAAAAYY
:::Killer guitar riff:::
Highway Star-Deep Purple
“Lovin’ you” - Minnie Ripperton.
OK, not exactly rock, I know…
Pretty much anything by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
“Hold your head up” in Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Maybe not high in the absolute sense, but given Annie Lennox’s pitch through the rest of the song, it stands out.
ooooh good one
“For meeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
The last note Annie hits on “Scheherazade” by Renaissance.
Well, I don’t know if you include 80s new-wave club disco gay dance tracks under the category of “Rock Songs”, but if you do the winner is in The Communards version of “Don’t Leave Me This Way”.
The Darkness - “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” gives Freddie Mercury a serious run for his money!
Ian Gillan hits a lot of high notes on Deep Purple’s “Child in Time.”
Focus - “Hocus Pocus” (seen here in a clip from 1973).
Lou Christie: “The Gypsy Cried,” “Two Faces Have I” (both 1963) and “Lightnin’ Strikes” (1965).
And “Cryin’” originally by Roy Orbison (1961) and covered by Don McLean (1981).
Rob Halford of Judas Priest hitting the opening scream of “Dissident Aggressor”. Yowza.
Oh and the closing note too.
I thought that the obvious one was Rodger Daltry in “Wont Get Fooled Again.”
Not rock, but the scream in the background on “Love Rollercoaster.” You know, the one that according to urban legend was someone dying in the studio?
He hits even more on the live version of “Strange Kind Of Woman” off Made In Japan, where he starts scat-singing the guitar parts.
What? This far in and nobody has mentioned Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers on Unchained Melody?
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.
Are you still mine?
I NEE-EE-EED your love, I need your love, God speed your love to me.
Led Zeppelin: The helium years.
Some of the latter-day incarnations of Hawkwind have pumped the high notes in “Silver Machine”.