»»Not necessarily. Uncredited cameos are a thing. This is not one of those cases, but they do happen.
Exactly. Like Freddie with his Backing Vocals on Andrew Gold's "Never Let Her Slip Away".
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TomP63
Regarding to the Ultimatequeen on the BV on Never Let Her Slip Away: Freddie is also rumoured to appear on Andrew Gold's 1978 single 'Never Let Her Slip Away', singing backing vocals, but apparently this is not the case. This website included full details of the song, but as of August 2017, all references have now been removed. Another nasty rumour is Freddie on BV on Leo Sayer's Thunder In My Heart....
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Sebastian
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
...who would love to hear Rod Stewart and Andy Gibbs on Queen tracks.[/QUOTE]
What Andy Gibb did, according to the 1980 report (penned right after the fact, therefore its error margin is far lower than what people who weren't there may speculate 38 years afterwards), was join the three founding members on the backing vocal recordings they happened to have been doing that day. Frederick was reportedly quite impressed with Andy's voice. Which leaves two options:
- Those bits were wiped out or simply muted and they re-did them later without Andy for whichever reason (lyrics may have changed, Andy may have asked for royalties or credits, etc). In that case, there probably is a version of that song with him on BV's, assuming Mack didn't delete it (which he seemed to be fond of doing at the time in order not to hoard, according to several WT's), but his voice won't stand out as it's mixed with Brian's, Roger's and Frederick's.
- Those bits may well be on the version we all know and love. That could very well be one of those uncredited cameos I mentioned earlier.
...who would love to hear Rod Stewart and Andy Gibbs on Queen tracks.[/QUOTE]
What Andy Gibb did, according to the 1980 report (penned right after the fact, therefore its error margin is far lower than what people who weren't there may speculate 38 years afterwards), was join the three founding members on the backing vocal recordings they happened to have been doing that day. Frederick was reportedly quite impressed with Andy's voice. Which leaves two options:
- Those bits were wiped out or simply muted and they re-did them later without Andy for whichever reason (lyrics may have changed, Andy may have asked for royalties or credits, etc). In that case, there probably is a version of that song with him on BV's, assuming Mack didn't delete it (which he seemed to be fond of doing at the time in order not to hoard, according to several WT's), but his voice won't stand out as it's mixed with Brian's, Roger's and Frederick's.
- Those bits may well be on the version we all know and love. That could very well be one of those uncredited cameos I mentioned earlier.
Martin Packer
Except I thought Queen were quite good at crediting cameos.
Sebastian
Not really, no:
- The ending of 'Seven Seas of Rhye' featured loads of people, none credited. So did the ending of 'Teo Torriatte' and the 'We Will Rock You' percussion and vocal ensemble.
- The three main external producers had several instances of uncredited appearances. Granted, Roy was mentioned on castanets, Mack on Fairlight (on one song) and Dave on computer programming, but loads of stuff they left out.
- The fairground thing from which the 'Brighton Rock' intro was taken was not credited officially. Brian has since said where it came from and all that, but it wasn't on the liner notes.
- The six horn players on 'Staying Power' aren't mentioned. Neither is the engineer who worked on those sessions. They only credit the arranger and producer.
- The string players on 'One Year of Love' aren't mentioned either, only the arranger.
- Dino Solera's cameo on 'Action This Day' isn't mentioned officially. In fact, 'Hot Space' has no performing credits for anyone.
So, they did mention Steve Howe, Joan Armatrading, Steve Gregory and a few others, but they didn't list everything and everyone. Keeping that in mind, the possibility that Andy Gibb is there but they didn't mention him is not too far-fetched, though there's also, quite obviously, the chance that they simply re-did the harmonies without him and used those ones.
- The ending of 'Seven Seas of Rhye' featured loads of people, none credited. So did the ending of 'Teo Torriatte' and the 'We Will Rock You' percussion and vocal ensemble.
- The three main external producers had several instances of uncredited appearances. Granted, Roy was mentioned on castanets, Mack on Fairlight (on one song) and Dave on computer programming, but loads of stuff they left out.
- The fairground thing from which the 'Brighton Rock' intro was taken was not credited officially. Brian has since said where it came from and all that, but it wasn't on the liner notes.
- The six horn players on 'Staying Power' aren't mentioned. Neither is the engineer who worked on those sessions. They only credit the arranger and producer.
- The string players on 'One Year of Love' aren't mentioned either, only the arranger.
- Dino Solera's cameo on 'Action This Day' isn't mentioned officially. In fact, 'Hot Space' has no performing credits for anyone.
So, they did mention Steve Howe, Joan Armatrading, Steve Gregory and a few others, but they didn't list everything and everyone. Keeping that in mind, the possibility that Andy Gibb is there but they didn't mention him is not too far-fetched, though there's also, quite obviously, the chance that they simply re-did the harmonies without him and used those ones.
aristide1
Fellow musicians attending great musicians at work is not uncommon. Rod Stewart was curious to see them and they generously invited him to sing not only to stare. But obviously there was no intention to use the material, or to be associated with him.
Sebastian
Sure, and most of the times it is indeed like that, just jamming and that's it. But then there are things like 'Innuendo' or 'Under Pressure' as well.