One for the people who know about vocals/singing...

I think Fred had a remarkable voice, he seemed to have this natural feel for when to put emphasis on lines, when to pause, when to switch to bark mode. He had such a variety of voices too, his gravelly hard rock voice, the falsetto for disco songs, the slightly frayed voice he used for orchestral songs; he was almost unique in his ability to adapt his voice to the demands of a track.

For me, his most memorable live voice was in 1986. I'm aware that many disagree with me but the sheer power he demonstrated in WWTLF, TYMD and ITLOTG is startling. His voice recovered a lot of power from the Works Tours shows. My favourite studio voice was Innuendo because it was a combination of his powerful eighties voice with the subtle nuanced approach of the seventies. Parts of DTSH for example, could have been recorded in the seventies, such was the delicacy but he embellishes parts with the power of his later voice e.g. "treasure e-e-every moment" to good effect. His vocal line on IGSM is perfect, low and frayed like a disgruntled jazz singer, and then he follows up with a throaty bark on headlong. It could be two different singers.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Adam Baboolal wrote: [/QUOTENAME]No Zeb, you misunderstand what I was getting at. I didn't mean just having backing singers in general. But to actually sing the high note for him while he mimed he was doing it!
I saw an interview where they were doing a section on Elvis. And when a backing singer was interviewed, he mentioned this little technique in those 70's shows.

So, how often did that happen?

Adam.[/QUOTE]

Well...

I dunno how often it happened. But it wasn't in that performance of Hurt. That is Elvis' voice. Either that, or the film "Bubba Ho Tep" just jumped up in credibility.

Lol! I like that!