Guide vocals

I was just thinking- how many tracks are there in the vaults with the guide vocals sang by Roger or Brian- songs that eventually ended up on albums with Freddie's vocals...? Anyone knows any egzamples...? There was sth about "Innuendo" sang by Roger, Brian sang "Hitman" on demo... What else...?
ALSO- are there any known versions sang by Freddie in the studio of the songs that on the album feature either Brian or Roger...?

PS.:
Forgive my poor gramma...:)

I think Rock It was recorded completely sung by both Roger and Freddie, then they chose to take the intro of Freddie's version and the body of Roger's.

I think there's Tear It Up with Brian's vocal too. There must be Headlong as well

I think most of the songs Brian and Roger wrote were recorded with guide vocals by them, just to show Freddie the melody and the way they wanted him to sing. But the question is....do they still excist?

To FC: Yes - they do!

To John>> Can you give us a little bit more...?

What I want to know is: how did John present songs to the band? He would have had to do some sort of a guide vocal to show them how the tune would go. Imagine John presenting them with You're My Best Friend or Break Free?

He probably turned red in the face a lot when the others mocked him relentlessly.

John did sing Another One Bites The Dust to Freddie. In the later days John recorded the demo in his house with melody lines and handed the lyrics to Fred

I could sell you the following demos sung by Brian:
Prophet's Song
Dreamer's Ball
Save Me
Sail Away Sweet Sister (bridge)
Hammer To Fall
Who Wants To Live Forever (second verse and refrain)
Scandal
I Want It All

One thousand euros each could be a fair price, considering all the efforts to get hold of them...

Why couldn't John (or anyone else) simply have written the vocal melody down in standard musical notation?

Because they probably couldn't, and it's far easier and less time consuming to just record a simple demo singing the melody.

Because Freddie was not able to read scores.

How could he not be able to? I thought he took piano lessons when he was young? No?

Of course Fred could read scores, but he didn't do it. It'd be faster for John to sing the notes to Fred or in later years do them in keyboard and handle the lyrics. Also consider that a big part of melodies in John's tracks come from Freddie (My Baby Does Me, probably Cool Cat or Pain Is So Close...)

"One thousand euros each could be a fair price, considering all the efforts to get hold of them... "

Getting friendly with David Richards probably helped eh? ;) I'm refering to your profile pic. BTW, you're the most handsome person I've seen around here.. no offense to anyone else :-P