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OT- Which British rock legend sang backup on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" ?
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Please do not post the answer if you know, but I just found this out yesterday and was wondering if I was the only one in the world who didn't know this.
Listen to the song and see if you can tell who it is during the "you're so vain" part of the song. It's actually quite easy to figure out.
Listen from 2:32-2:47 for his voice.
Listen to the song and see if you can tell who it is during the "you're so vain" part of the song. It's actually quite easy to figure out.
Listen from 2:32-2:47 for his voice.
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<< <i>whenever they played it on the radio they would say who it was. The bigger question was who was it about, and that seemed almost as obvious. >>
There are quite a few people that many think it's about, but I don't think Simon ever came out and said definitively, although she supposedly told a couple of people in confidence.
Do you think that backup singer got any satisfaction singing that song?
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I've stumped a few friends with that one over the years.
Ask'em who's doing vocals on Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious," which was featured in Scorsese's Casino. That's a good one.
Or who is in background on Dire Straits' Money For Nothin'
I love these trivia questions.
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<< <i>Jagger.
I've stumped a few friends with that one over the years.
Ask'em who's doing vocals on Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious," which was featured in Scorsese's Casino. That's a good one.
Or who is in background on Dire Straits' Money For Nothin'
I love these trivia questions. >>
Sting is answer to last question.
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<< <i>Jagger.
I've stumped a few friends with that one over the years.
Ask'em who's doing vocals on Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious," which was featured in Scorsese's Casino. That's a good one.
Or who is in background on Dire Straits' Money For Nothin'
I love these trivia questions. >>
Sting!
How about who played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat it?
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Who played guitar on David Bowie's "Let's Dance?"
<< <i>Eddie Van Halen.
Who played guitar on David Bowie's "Let's Dance?" >>
Stevie Ray Vaughn.....(although Bowie did a nice job playing it off like he did in the video)
who sang back up vocals on two songs on Danzig's debut album?
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<< <i>Eddie Van Halen.
Who played guitar on David Bowie's "Let's Dance?" >>
Stevie Ray Vaughn.....(although Bowie did a nice job playing it off like he did in the video)
who sang back up vocals on two songs on Danzig's debut album? >>
Hetfield. Who played keyboard on the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album?
<< <i>Jagger.
I've stumped a few friends with that one over the years.
Ask'em who's doing vocals on Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious," which was featured in Scorsese's Casino. That's a good one.
Or who is in background on Dire Straits' Money For Nothin'
I love these trivia questions. >>
Rod Stewart?
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<< <i>Who played keyboard on the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album? >>
Rick Wakeman.
who was known as the 5th Beatle?
careful. it's a trick question.
Didn't Carly Simon finally say "You're So Vain" was about a record producer who later married (dumb move) and then divorced (smart move) Mariah Carey?
What baseball great and, later, announcer, won a Grammy for a rock song?
<< <i>What baseball great and, later, announcer, won a Grammy for a rock song? >>
Rizzuto?
<< <i>....who was known as the 5th Beatle?
careful. it's a trick question. >>
I'm gonna go with George Martin.
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<< <i>....who was known as the 5th Beatle?
careful. it's a trick question. >>
I'm gonna go with George Martin. >>
Could'nt agree more. Producer extraordinaire. Beatles had the raw talent/material but George "assembled" it.
<< <i>In re: Ain't Superstitious, that whole album (Truth) is fantastic. >>
+100. Shapes of Things is killer.
Ok, here's an easy one. Speaking of Truth, what do these three albums have in common?:
<< <i>If you grew up in NYC in the '60's, it was "Murray the K" Kaufman. Otherwise, Billy Preston. (Or did you want Pete Best or Stu Sutcliff?)
Didn't Carly Simon finally say "You're So Vain" was about a record producer who later married (dumb move) and then divorced (smart move) Mariah Carey?
What baseball great and, later, announcer, won a Grammy for a rock song? >>
Phil Scooter Rizzuto!!!
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Don't know B U singer.
I was listening to a carly Simon interview many years ago.
When she was asked about this song specifically she said she would refuse to do it unless they could get
a specific drummer for the song....which they did do.....and rest is history.
Don't know/remember his name either
I didn't know she has massive stage fright
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<< <i>In re: Ain't Superstitious, that whole album (Truth) is fantastic. >>
+100. Shapes of Things is killer.
Ok, here's an easy one. Speaking of Truth, what do these three albums have in common?:
>>
Jimmy Page on guitar
Which Rock and Roll hall of fame singer and huge baseball fan recently donated 200 autographed baseballs to the Negro league baseball museum?
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Jimmy Page on guitar
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Nope... he only played on the Zeppelin album.
Believe the answer to your question is Geddy Lee?
<< <i>....what do these three albums have in common?:
>>
songs by Willie Dixon. i looked it up, though. my first inclination was to say Robert Johnson.
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songs by Willie Dixon. i looked it up, though. my first inclination was to say Robert Johnson. >>
Good call, itzagoner, I hadn't thought of that actually. My answer was that each of the guitar players on those three albums (Beck, Page, Clapton) had previously played in the Yardbirds, and the albums shown were the first albums they each made after leaving the Yardbirds.
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Which Rock and Roll hall of fame singer and huge baseball fan recently donated 200 autographed baseballs to the Negro league baseball museum? >>
That would be Geddy Lee of Rush.
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