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February 28

Famous drummers who were the lead singers for their band

A bit of help, please - seeing Phil Collins on television sparked a spell of trying to name famous drummers who were lead singers or sang lead vocal on some or all of their band's songs. Don Henley and Karen Carpenter spring rapidly to mind - are there any others people can think of? Ezio fan | black boots | latin feet 15:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Roger Taylor sang lead on some Queen songs. DuncanHill (talk) 15:54, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Ringo Starr sang lead on a few songs, and Paul McCartney can play the drums, so there are songs where he plays all the instruments and sings (though none with the Beatles as far as I remember). Also Levon Helm, Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five...Jimmy Chamberlin occasionally sang lead. I don't think Dave Grohl ever sang in a band in which he was the drummer, so I guess he doesn't count. Adam Bishop (talk) 16:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

We considered Ringo, but figured that what he did didn't really constitute singing, per se ;-) Ezio fan | black boots | latin feet 16:02, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh now that's unkind! He was nearly as good a singer as me! DuncanHill (talk) 16:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Ringo sang with his own band and had a few hit songs, such as Photograph and It's Not Easy. -- kainaw™ 16:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Micky Dolenz sang a lot of Monkees songs. Of course, you have to decide if he was "the drummer" since a lot of people claim they never played their own instruments (which is not true). -- kainaw™ 16:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Beth was KISS' first top 10 hit, sung by Peter Criss. -- kainaw™ 16:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

The Four Seasons had a big hit with December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), with the drummer singing the verses. Frankie Valli sang the chorus, leaving no doubt who the real singer was. If I remember TV from the 70s correctly, I think the drummer sang others songs too when Valli was not with the group. —Kevin Myers 17:06, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Brandon Saller plays drums in the band Atreyu and shares vocals on most every song they have recorded. cheers and rock on! 10draftsdeep (talk) 19:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Some that people haven't yet mentioned: Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad and Greg Munford of Strawberry Alarm Clock. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 20:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

It was Nick Mason who provided the vocals on all 12 words of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days".  :-) Dismas|^(talk) 05:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Stevie Wonder did much of the drumming on his records as does Lenny Kravitz.91.111.64.177 (talk) 20:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Jimmy Marinos was the drummer and lead singer of The Romantics on "What I Like About You". Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 21:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Christian Vander is the leader and singer of his band Magma. --194.117.219.2 (talk) 09:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm know I'm a bit late here, but Dennis Wilson sang lead for The Beach Boys occasionally, including the hit Do You Wanna Dance?. MookieZ (talk) 14:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Profiles.met-art

Curious what happened to profiles.met-art.com. Some time ago it featured the user-generated galleries, but now it's quite unusual. 91.135.241.202 (talk) 19:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)