roy harper tried to sing vocals on the album "wish you were here".
who tried to sing vocals on the album "wish you were here"?
roy harper
pink floyd's 1975 release "wish you were here" saw harper sing lead vocals on the song "have a cigar". roger waters intended to record the part himself, but had strained his voice while recording "shine on you crazy diamond" and david gilmour declined to sing. harper was recording his album "hq" in studio 2 of abbey road at the same time as pink floyd were working in studio 3; learning of the band's dilemma, harper offered to sing the lead. the song is one of only two songs by pink floyd not sung by one of their permanent members (the other one being the great gig in the sky). david gilmour returned the favour by appearing on "hq", along with harper's occasional backing band, 'trigger' (chris spedding, dave cochran, bill bruford and john paul jones). the single "when an old cricketer leaves the crease", taken from "hq", is one of harper's best known songs. harper also co-wrote the song "short and sweet" with gilmour for gilmour's first solo record, "david gilmour", released in 1978.
roy harper (singer)
in 1980, bowen had been invited by scarlet rivera to sing vocals for the first time on a record album for the song “lift away”, which was on rivera's jerry wexler-produced second album: "scarlet fever". then, upon clemons’ opening big man's west, a nightclub in red bank, new jersey, bowen started working as the doorman. around this time in 1981, clemons had asked bowen to join him as lead vocalist for the red bank rockers, where he would sing lead on their debut album "rescue", which featured "woman's got the power" and a bruce springsteen composition, "savin' up".
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