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* Memphis Soul managed to survive the death of Otis Redding and the original Bar-Kays, thanks largely to the ''Wattstax'' event (which the national debut for the new Bar-Kays). But Al Green's leaving the industry to dedicate himself to the church seemed to rip the soul (pun not intended) out of the city's music industry and Memphis Soul never regained it's prominence.
** Around the time of his death, Otis Redding was supposedly planning a ''Sgt. Pepper'' or ''Pet Sounds'' style album consisting of songs in the mould of ''(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay''. If this had gone ahead, it's entirely possible that soul might not have lost as much ground to funk in the 1970s.
* The supergroup that was formed to portray the wizarding group The Weird Sisters in the film version of ''[[Harry Potter and
* [[The Smashing Pumpkins|Billy Corgan]] was once working on backing music for a Shaquille O'Neal rap album (At his own publisher's suggestion). Around the same time, [[David Lynch]] wanted a new Smashing Pumpkins song for [[Lost Highway]], but didn't like their original contribution, "Tear". So Corgan took the electronic instrumental he intended to submit to the Shaq album, built it into a more-electronic-than-usual Smashing Pumpkins song, and the resulting song "Eye" appeared in [[Lost Highway]] instead. Would ''Adore'' still be a [[New Sound Album]] if "Tear" was released on the [[Lost Highway]] soundtrack and was less well received than "Eye" was? Perhaps more importantly, what on earth would "Eye" sound like with Shaq rapping over it?
* [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]] wanted to work with [[REM|Michael Stipe]] in a solo album. And there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTPLxtpenk this interview], where Kurt expresses his love for [[New Wave]].
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* [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] recorded a somber, acoustic folk album as his major label followup to ''Mellow Gold'', then decided to scrap the material, collaborate with The Dust Brothers and release the much more eclectic ''Odelay'' instead. Two songs from those sessions, "Brother" and "Feather In Your Cap" saw release as b-sides, while another, "Ramshackle", actually appeared on ''Odelay'' itself. Still, the most critically and commercial successful Beck album almost didn't happen.
** He also had the idea of getting David Eggers and Spike Jonze to do a "commentary track" for the entirety of ''The Information''. This is what led to the recording of Eggers and Jonze having a strange conversation at the end of "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton".
* Voices: [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] The Music, Vol. 9, was originally planned to be a sequel to WWE's 2002 album ''WWE Anthology'', titled ''WWE Anthology II''. ''WWE Anthology II'' was going to be a three-CD set that would have had new music and alternate mixes of older material. It was also going to have unreleased music as well.
* After Jim Morrison's death, there was talk of [[Iggy Pop]] joining [[The Doors]], replacing him as lead singer.
* Before Simple Minds ended up recording it, "Don't You (Forget About Me)" was shopped to [[Roxy Music|Brian Ferry]], Cy Cumin from The Fixx, and [[Billy Idol]], all of whom turned it down. Idol later recorded a version in 2001, as the token new track on a [[Greatest Hits Album]].
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** For the first couple years of the band's existence, where there were still official band members other than Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, David Palmer was added as a singer (he sang lead vocals on "Dirty Work" and "Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)" from ''Can't Buy a Thrill''). This was because Donald Fagen had terrible stage fright, and didn't want to sing in concert.
** A ton of their demo material [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|has been leaked]], and in some cases officially released; some are early versions of songs that would appear on later albums, like "Parker's Band" and "Everyone's Gone To The Movies," while others are unique compositions. However, most of it is of very poor quality. It's maddening to try to imagine what "Old Regime" or "Mock Turtle Song" would've sounded like if it was produced with the Dan's trademark studio perfectionism.
** During the [https://web.archive.org/web/20171130233030/http://www.steelydan.com/dennys3.html troubled production] of Katy Lied, a song called Mister Sam was recorded, but due to sound processing issues wasn't considered in good enough shape to be released, and was cut from the album.
** During the [[wikipedia:Gaucho (album)|even more troubled]] production of Gaucho, a technician accidentally erased most of the master recording of the first song completed on the album, "The Second Arrangement." Attempts at re-recording were apparently unsuccessful, and to this day the song has never been performed in concert or (officially) released.
* [[Bob Dylan]] allegedly considered following up 1969's ''Nashville Skyline'' with an album where he would be backed by frequent Dylan-coverers The Byrds. It's not clear how serious the infamously fickle Dylan was about this, however. Bob Johnston had produced the most recent albums for both artists and would have been the producer for this project, but Johnston didn't get along with The Byrds and never produced anything else for them, which may have helped kill the album. Dylan wound up recording the [[Dork Age]] album ''Self Portrait'' instead.
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* According to vocalist Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke originally wanted their 2003 [[Self-Titled Album]] to feature "three of our favorite drummers", [[Dave Grohl]], [[System of a Down]]'s John Dolmayan, and [[Tool]]'s Danny Carey. Dave Grohl decided that he wanted to play on the whole album instead, and that's what ended up happening.
* [[ABBA| Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus]] were originally approach to perform the song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”, possibly reunited with Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog for the song. The task was ultimately given to [[Elton John]].
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