At the gym this morning, the track “Ladykiller” by Nicky Holland popped up on my playlist. It’s from her debut solo album from 1992 (and is a rather good track). An artist that has been very much under the radar – she was originally in the Tears For Fears live band and co-wrote some of their tracks before releasing a couple of solo albums in the early 90s. Since then, I’m not aware of any further activity.

Anyway, the track in question (see video in first comments) has backing vocals from non other than Lloyd Cole which are very very distinctive (he’s actually in the video playing bass guitar also which kind of gives it away – but if you hear it “blind” to my mind its obvious). I think that the song is actually written by Lloyd Cole.

So , other examples of distinctive “guest” backing vocals that add to the song ?