A list of well known music groups and the frontman or lead singer who performs with them. Names in brackets are the real names of the lead singers. Multiple names refer to the chronological order of frontmen that some bands have had.
This page should help with questions such as "Which band does BLANK sing for?" and "Who's the lead singer of BLANK?"
Band or Group | Lead Singer / Frontman |
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AC/DC | Brian Johnson, Dave Evans, Bon Scott |
Aerosmith | Steven Tyler |
A-ha | Morten Harket |
Black Sabbath | John "Ozzy" Osbourne |
Blind Melon | Shannon Hoon |
Blur | Damon Albarn |
Coldplay | Chris Martin |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | John Fogerty |
Crowded House | Neil Finn |
Def Leppard | Joe Elliott |
Depeche Mode | David Gahan |
Dire Straits | Mark Knopfler |
Doves | Jimi Goodwin |
Duran Duran | Simon Le Bon |
Echo & the Bunnymen | Ian McCulloch, Noel Burke |
Erasure | Andy Bell |
Foo Fighters | Dave Grohl |
Genesis | Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Ray Wilson |
Green Day | Billie Joe Armstrong |
Guns n' Roses | Axl Rose |
Hootie & the Blowfish | Darius Rucker |
Idlewild | Roddy Woomble |
INXS | Michael Hutchence |
Joy Division | Ian Curtis |
Keane | Tom Chaplin |
Led Zeppelin | Robert Plant |
Limp Bizkit | Fred Durst |
Linkin Park | Chester Bennington |
New Order | Bernard Sumner |
Nickelback | Chad Kroeger |
Nirvana | Kurt Cobain |
No Doubt | Gwen Stefani |
Oasis | Liam Gallagher |
Pearl Jam | Eddie Vedder |
Pulp | Jarvis Cocker |
Queen | Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) |
R.E.M. | Michael Stipe |
Radiohead | Thom Yorke |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Anthony Kiedis |
Roxette | Marie Fredriksson |
Scorpions | Klaus Meine |
Simple Minds | Jim Kerr |
Simply Red | Mick Hucknell |
Soundgarden | Chris Cornell |
Spandau Ballet | Tony Hadley |
Stone Temple Pilots | Scott Weiland |
Suede | Brett Anderson |
Supergrass | Gaz Coombes |
T. Rex | Marc Bolan |
The Animals | Eric Burdon |
The Beach Boys | Brian Wilson |
The Byrds | Roger McGuinn (James Joseph McGuinn III) |
The Cardigans | Nina Persson |
The Charlatans | Tim Burgess |
The Clash | Joe Strummer (John Mellor) |
The Cranberries | Dolores O´Riordan |
The Cure | Robert Smith |
The Darkness | Justin Hawkins |
The Doors | Jim Morrison |
The Happy Mondays | Shaun Ryder |
The Jam | Paul Weller |
The Kinks | Ray Davies |
The La's | Lee Mavers |
The Offspring | Dexter Holland |
The Pixies | Frank Black (Charles Thompson) |
The Police | Sting (Gordon Sumner) |
The Ramones | Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) |
The Rolling Stones | Mick Jagger |
The Smashing Pumpkins | Billy Corgan |
The Smiths | Morrissey (Steven Morrissey) |
The Stone Roses | Ian Brown |
The Sugarcubes | Björk (Björk Guðmundsdóttir) |
The Who | Roger Daltrey |
Thin Lizzy | Phil Lynott |
T'Pau | Carol Decker |
Travis | Francis Healy |
U2 | Bono (Paul Hewson) |
UB40 | Ali Campbell |
Ultravox | John Foxx, Midge Ure |
ZZ Top | Billy Gibbons |
This page was suggested by a Pub Quiz Help user, and a couple of other users have sent in other famous lead singer names