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2 | Over the years many musicians have made a collaborative album and/or single [[{{Crossover}} together]]. This is still promoted as a big deal, because many artists are signed to different labels, making it not always easy to do so without contractual breaks. |
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4 | Since two musicians from different labels appearing on stage together is quite common we only list actual public releases on single, LP or CD here. |
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7 | * [[Music/{{Yes}} Jon Anderson]] and ''Vangelis'' recorded the studio album ''The Friends Of Mr. Cairo'' (1981), which spawned the hit singles ''Somehow I'll Find My Way Home'' and ''State Of Independence''. |
8 | * Music/LouisArmstrong and Music/DukeEllington recorded the studio album ''The Great Summit'' in 1961. |
9 | * Music/{{Bjork}} and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]] recorded ''I've Seen It All'' together. |
10 | * Music/DavidBowie and [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]] had a 1985 hit single with ''Dancing In The Street''. |
11 | * Music/NickCave and Music/KylieMinogue had a hit single with ''Where The Wild Roses Grow'' (1995). |
12 | * Neneh Cherry and Youssou N' Dour had a hit single with ''Seven Seconds'' (1994). |
13 | * Music/EricClapton and Music/BBKing recorded the album ''Riding With The King'' together. |
14 | * Music/BobDylan and Music/TheBand recorded the album ''Music/PlanetWaves'' together. |
15 | * ''Music/GunsNRoses'' performed together with Music/AliceCooper on "The Garden" from ''Music/UseYourIllusion'' (1991). |
16 | * Julio Iglesias and Music/WillieNelson recorded the song ''To All The Girls I Loved Before'' in 1984. |
17 | * Music/PJHarvey and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]] recorded ''This Mess We're In'' on ''Music/StoriesFromTheCityStoriesFromTheSea''. |
18 | * Music/MichaelJackson has done this often: |
19 | ** He and Music/PaulMcCartney performed together on Paul's single "Say Say Say" (1981) and Jackson's "The Girl Is Mine" from ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' (1983). |
20 | ** He sang a duet with Music/StevieWonder on "Just Good Friends" from ''Music/{{Bad}}''. |
21 | ** He and Music/TheNotoriousBIG performed together on ''Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI'' (1995) during "This Time Around". On that same album "2Bad" is a rap segment with basketball player Shaquille O' Neal and "Scream" a duet with his sister Music/JanetJackson. |
22 | * Music/JayZ and Music/LinkinPark in their collaboration mash-up ''Collision Course''. |
23 | * Music/BrianJones from Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} recorded an album with the Moroccan folk group The Master Musicians of Jajouka, ''Music/BrianJonesPresentsThePipesOfPanAtJajouka'', even though his only input was producing it and adding some phasing effects. Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} also collaborated with this group on the track "Continental Drift" from ''Music/SteelWheels''. |
24 | * Music/JohnLennon, Music/YokoOno and Music/FrankZappa once shared a stage together. Their performance can be heard both on Lennon's "Some Time In New York City" (1973) as well in a more complete and unedited version on Zappa's "Playground Psychotics" (1993). |
25 | * Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/MichaelJackson recorded Macca's song ''Say Say Say'' in 1981 and ''The Girl Is Mine'' on ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' (1982), after which they had a fall-out when Jackson bought the rights to the entire Beatles catalogue in 1985. |
26 | ** [=McCartney=] and Music/StevieWonder also recorded the hit single "Ebony and Ivory". |
27 | * Music/FreddieMercury and Spanish opera diva Montserrat Caballé recorded an album together called ''Music/{{Barcelona}}''. |
28 | * ''Music/{{Metallica}}'' and Music/LouReed recorded the album ''Lulu'' together in 2011. |
29 | * ''Music/{{Nirvana}}'' and Music/MeatPuppets recorded three songs together during the ''Music/MTVUnpluggedInNewYork'' concert. |
30 | * ''Music/{{Oomph}}'': |
31 | ** In ''Plastik'', Dero Goi duets with Music/NinaHagen in "Fieber". |
32 | ** "Brennende Liebe" crosses over ''Oomph!'' with the Austrian duo ''L'Âme Immortelle''. |
33 | ** From ''[=GlaubeLiebeTod=]'': the single version of "Die Schlinge" crosses over ''Oomph!'' with ''Music/{{Apocalyptica}}'', while the single version of "Träumst du?" becomes a duet of Dero Goi and Czech singer Marta Jandová. |
34 | ** "Land ahead", the English version of "Land im Sicht", includes of Sharon den Adel from ''Music/WithinTemptation'' as backing vocalist. |
35 | * Music/{{Queen|Band}}: |
36 | ** The band and Music/DavidBowie had a hit single in 1981 with [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]]. |
37 | ** Queen also collaborated with Music/{{Yes}}'s guitarist Steve Howe during the recording of the song "Music/{{Innuendo}}", having him provide a Spanish guitar part that was too difficult for Music/BrianMay. |
38 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and Music/PeterTosh recorded the 1978 hit single ''(Walk And) Don't Look Back'' together. |
39 | * Music/FrankSinatra, Music/BingCrosby and Fred Waring and his orchestra performed together on a Christmas Album called ''12 Songs of Christmas''. |
40 | ** Sinatra also sang a duet with his daughter Music/{{Nancy|Sinatra}} on "Somethin' Stupid". |
41 | * Music/VelvetUnderground and Music/{{Nico}} recorded their collaborative debut album ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' together in 1967. Only after that did Nico record her own debut solo album. |
42 | * The Three Tenors concerts were heavily promoted at the time because it featured Music/LucianoPavarotti, José Carreras and Placido Domingo singing together on one stage. |
43 | * Music/SarahVaughan collaborated with many artists throughout her career, including Michel Legrand, Godley and Creme, Music/SergioMendes and Clifford Brown (''Music/SarahVaughanWithCliffordBrown''). |
44 | * Music/TomWaits and Music/KeithRichards have performed together three times on a Waits album, namely ''Music/RainDogs'' (1985), "That Feel" on ''Music/BoneMachine'' (1992) and on ''Music/BadAsMe'' (2011). |
45 | * Music/RobbieWilliams and actress Creator/NicoleKidman once covered "Somethin' Stupid". Their version also hit the charts. |
46 | * Music/FrankZappa and Music/CaptainBeefheart worked together on the track ''Willie the Pimp'' on Zappa's ''Music/HotRats'' and recorded an entire collaborative album too: ''Music/BongoFury''. |
47 | * Music/JohnZorn has worked together with Music/MikePatton, Music/BillLaswell, Thurston Moore (Music/SonicYouth), Bill Frisell, Music/EugeneChadbourne, Music/MrBungle, Music/DerekBailey, Marc Ribot (of Music/TomWaits fame) and Music/{{Boredoms}}. The live album ''The Stone: Issue Three'' is an improvisation between Zorn, Music/LouReed, and Music/LaurieAnderson. |
48 | * Music/{{Sabaton}}'s frontman Joakim Brodén sang on Music/VanCanto's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agWwSsCP6KI cover of Sabaton's "Primo Victoria"]]. The whole band later showed up for TheTeaser of Music/RadioTapok's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw "The Attack of the Dead Men"]], with Joakim joining Oleg in singing the outro. |
49 | * The unlikely pairing of Dutch progressive rockers Music/{{Focus}} and 60s rocker P. J. Proby produced the album ''Focus con Proby''. |
50 | * Music/{{Starset}} and Music/BreakingBenjamin came together for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQVB2W1KAQ "Waiting on the Sky to Change"]][[note]]originally from Downplay, the former band of Starset's frontman Dustin Bates[[/note]] in 2022. |
51 | * French rock band Ultra Orange and Creator/EmmanuelleSeigner collaborated for the album "Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle" in 2007. |
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