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Greatest backup singer ever
No Beatles are eligible.
Pete Townshend is not eligible (not that he was any Pavoratti, but he was not "backup"...he was occasional lead....)
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I'm going with Mike Mills in R.E.M.
Got the headphones on and am going thru these transcendent new deluxe editions of the first 4 albums. Revelatory.
He was huge.
Listen to Fall On Me again, asap......
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Sorry, can't narrow the field to a single person, but a few noteworthy performances:
Merry Clayton--Gimme Shelter
Doris Troy and Clare Torry for their work on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Emmylou Harris--her work with Gram Parsons.
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As a pure backup group, I am quite enamored with Thunderthighs, who not only did the backups on "Walk on the Wild Side", but this slab o' joy:
Mott the Hoople "Roll Away the Stone"
Also worked with Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Elephant's Memory, and had the best name EVER for a female backing group.
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Some stellar stylin' and profilin' by those gals, too.
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Although a "group"--the Dixie Hummingbirds did a fine job behind John Fogerty:
You might remember them behind Paul Simon on "Loves Me Like a Rock."
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