Name a band where arguably their singer isn’t the most famous member

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I have two considerations:

Blink-182 and Led Zeppelin

Another one for fall out boy.

Eagles of death metal

Queen??? seriously??

No one is more famous than Freddie Mercury.

Think we might need a definition of famous here because some of the people named aren't famous in their own living rooms.... <scurries for cover>

Not at the time, though.

Yes, great example. So many people have assumed that Mike was the singer - and Paul Carrack and Paul Young (not that one) are and were criminally underrated.

The spice Girls Victoria Beckham did virtually non of the singing but far more famous then the rest of them

Queen was super egalitarian at the height of their success. Every single member wrote at least one gold single.

I haven't heard of anyone in Blink 182 OP. Sorry.

That's as may be. But Freddie is the famous frontman. It's not about sharing out the tasks of writing.

But he was the singer and the drummer. There wasn't another singer as such.

Obviously different in the Peter Gabriel days.

At the time Geri was the big star. Most column inches etc. Victoria's fame came form courting DB.

I'd put Freddie as possibly the best frontman ever.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy are also up there. Both had this eerie ability to shrink a venue and make it feel like you are in a tiny club, or someones front room. Robert Plant can do the same - especially when he reminisces about smoking "jazz cigarettes" walking down Dudley high street.

Vince Neil was quite high profile after his drink driving killed Razzle.

Def Leppard - everyone knows the drummer has only got one arm, can't tell you anything about the lead singer

Not sure some vocal bands really have a lead singer as such... but was Harry Styles the main singer in One Direction? If not, he was and is by far and away the most famous of all of them.

Yes. I'd say that Rick Wakeman is the best well-known of all of them by a long way - certainly nowadays. I've heard him attempt to sing random little snippets when he's featured on talk or game shows and...... he's an excellent composer and keyboard player, shall we say?!

This is very true 😂

Squeeze - pianist more famous than lead singer

Jools Holland ? He was only with them for about 1% of their (still continuing) career.

The Beach Boys

But that just goes to prove the point: he's still much better known to the general public than any of their lead singers.

Chic - Nile Rogers is the only one anyone knows

The Banana Splits. Fleegle was the generally acknowledged main guy, but everyone knows the real power lay with Snorky.

Nowadays, the Communards.

The Osmonds. Donny Osmond played keyboards
The Honeycombs. Honey Lantree was the female drummer

Kiss. Gene Simmons.