Good rock songs featuring choirs?

[ROConnell]

Okay, my band is playing the school concert (this year featuring a stage in the shape of and lit up like a jukebox) and we need a great number which features a choir. Last year we done something similar with Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall Part II, which went down brilliantly.

All suggestions welcome, it doesn't have to be specifically rock but we'd like to stay around that genre.

Cheers.

[Musky]

You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Stones?

[bremen]

Career Opportunities by The Clash (feat. St Winifred's School Choir)

[Ed_S]

Not exactly a 'choir', but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7eqxg92YG0

[pobrien_ie]

Somebody to Love by Queen..think there's a choir in that.

[Doctor J]

Rock with a choir? Sounds like you need some heavy cheese. There can be only one. Manowar!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLvPNt2KsAU[/media]

[LiamPodmore]

Kings of Leon - Radioactive
Meatloaf - Testify (Live at Melbourne 2004)

Liam

[paulpirie8]

+1 for "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones!

Great choir intro!

[paul torch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF9MLh13EwE

[Commando Jack]

The G 'n' R version of Knocking on Heaven's Door.

[KevB]

If they are happy doing the 'ahhs and oohs' type vocal backing then;
Mr Blue Sky - serious choral stuff going on toward the end. Also check out things that bands have done live with choirs that aren't on the original versions. Thinking of stuff like 'Question' by Moody Blues.

[wateroftyne]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EvEMObKUsE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EvEMObKUsE[/url]

[musophilr]

Rick Wakeman used choirs on some of [i]The Six Wives of Henry VIII[/i], and [i]Journey To The Centre Of The Earth[/i]. Try also Enya - she layered her voice a lot but that doesn't mean you can't do her songs with lots of voices.

[Shambo]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkOZTSvrHs[/media]

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Supertzar by Black Sabbath.

Or for the very ambitious, Queensryche's Suite Sister Mary.

[Silvia Bluejay]

Rock You Like A Hurricane - The Scorpions
Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Medicine, and practically anything non-ballady by Bon Jovi...

Edited June 14, 2012 by bluejay

[Ed_S]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1339694578' post='1692930']
Or for the very ambitious, Queensryche's Suite Sister Mary.
[/quote]

I like your thinking!

Taking ambition even further, maybe something like "The Hourglass" from Savatage's "The Wake of Magellan".

[charic]

Bohemian rhapsody might work

What about schools out for summer :-P

[Hamster]

I did this one once for a school - we got the kids to sing the chorus - have a listen -

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qga5eONXU_4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qga5eONXU_4[/url]

[seashell]

[quote name='paulpirie8' timestamp='1339663112' post='1692058']
+1 for "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones!

Great choir intro!e
[/quote]

Ooh yes this would sound great :-)

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1339676465' post='1692465']
Rick Wakeman [/quote]

Oh, you so beat me to it.

Big up (as they say) for The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

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Edited June 14, 2012 by skankdelvar

[chrismuzz]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnz2O4Chfw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnz2O4Chfw[/url]

[charic]

Nice one Chris!

Or forsaken could work nicely too :-)

Actually so could Hollow Years

Edited June 15, 2012 by charic

[sticker]

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1339656332' post='1691956']
You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Stones?
[/quote]

I saw the thread title and ^^^^^ this^^^^^^ is what immediately sprung to mind !

[flyfisher]

Yep, me too.

Ray Davies recently released a CD with choral arrangements for many of his famous songs. Not really an improvement, in my view, but could be useful for the OP's project?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Kinks-Choral-Collection-Davies/dp/B001W6Q4BU