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Texas -  Sharleen Spiteri

Hot Chocolate  -  Errol Brown
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Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with the musician Neil Young. Since 1969, fifteen studio albums and eight live albums have been billed as being by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. They have also released six studio albums of their own between 1971 and 2009.

I know Neil Young fired the band at one point so I don't know if that makes him a member but as above they recorded more albums with Young that they did on their own.
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DION and the Belmonts.

The Verve

 
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Tak.

Totally get you on that one, I was coming from the angle of a moderately interested fan. Anyone who is a big fan of INXS will know they were so much more than MH and a few mates but to the casual fan, Hutchence wooul d be the first name (and possibly) only that comes to mind.
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Far Cough UKunt" wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 16:37 Neil Young from Crazy Horse
That's a curious one. As far as I know Crazy Horse the band existed as a separate entity and Neil Young happened to do a lot of work with them. Not sure whether he was really a member or whether it was just a very long running collaboration? I don't think they were ever just his backing band either.

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Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 15:47
Bungo wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:55
WHU(Exeter) wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:10 The Fall
Although honourable mention for Marc Riley I think.😁
Mark E. Smith once said, "If it's me and your Granny on bongos, it's the Fall".

Riley wrote most of the tunes during the band's best period (78-82) but I reckon Steve Hanley made the biggest contribution to their sound (and somehow managed to stay in the band for 20 years).
He was right of course. I think I read once that there were more than 60 members of The Fall over the years!
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Bungo wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:55
WHU(Exeter) wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:10 The Fall
Although honourable mention for Marc Riley I think.😁
Mark E. Smith once said, "If it's me and your Granny on bongos, it's the Fall".

Riley wrote most of the tunes during the band's best period (78-82) but I reckon Steve Hanley made the biggest contribution to their sound (and somehow managed to stay in the band for 20 years).
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bill, a bit of an insult there to andrew farris who wrote most of their best songs. agree though, michael was one of the best ever front men
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The Dave Clarke five

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band.

Kenny Rogers and the first edition

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A lot of people would say Bon Jovi but that does overlook Ritchie Sambora’s talent as a guitarist.  I personally felt Bon Jovi was a waste of his talent and he should have been in a better band. 
 
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Most people would say this about Adam and the Ants, but that overlooks Marco Pirroni’s contribution to the songwriting and Chris Hughes’ expertise as a drummer and producer. 
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Although I’m not into The The, weren’t they essentially Matt Johnson’s vehicle?
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I think Rainbow and Hawkwind must be the ultimate examples of this. 

UFO also went through a few years of being essentially Phill Mogg’s band 

 
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Leonard Hatred" wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 12:10 Jethro Tull.
That’s a little unfair on Martin Barre. He was a major part of the Jethro Tull sound for decades
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Leonard Hatred" wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 12:10 Jethro Tull.
Perhaps an honourable mention for Martin Barre?
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Jethro Tull.
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Far Cough UKunt" wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:56 Diamond Dave?
I just saw a video of him from a recent show. I honestly couldn't tell which song he was 'singing' until it reached the chorus and the other singers came in...😶

There's another one who should have just stopped long ago.
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WHU(Exeter) wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 11:10 The Fall
Although honourable mention for Marc Riley I think.😁
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