Best guest appearance, musical division

'Shiny Happy People' was Kate Pierson, not all of the B52s. She also guested on a bad Iggy Pop song called 'Candy' around the same time.

 

True. Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were prolific session guys on the other side of the Atlantic.

 

And crap, how did we go this far with no mention of Rick James on Eddie Murphy's "Party all the time."

 

Another guest on another Foreigner song: Thomas Dolby on Waiting for a girl like you (although he was an unknown at the time).

 

John Lennon on David Bowie's "Fame"

Michael Jackson on Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" (which probably was the only reason it became a hit)

 

Queen with Bowie mentioned yet?

 

I lost a lot of respect for Dire Straits when the caved and deleted that verse from the song on their greatest hits CD.

 

The members of Toto on every song recorded in LA from 1975 to 1985. Oh, best guest appearance? Never mind...

 

Not to mention being part of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" for many of the acts he recorded.

 

I guess you won't supply the love.

 

Kate Bush and David Gilmour, "Comfortably Numb"

The E Street Band and Win Butler & Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, "Keep the Car Running"

Neil Young and R.E.M., "Country Feedback"

YouTube "Bridge School" - all kinds of great Neil collabos. He usually does a song with each of the performers.

 

Interesting about 'Leather and Lace,' Stevie Nicks wrote it for Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter to perform on their duets album of the same name, but they didn't.
Nicks and Don Henley were a couple at the time and performed the duet on Nicks' album.