Graham Bonnet (3,749 views)

[Steve]

Graham Bonnet (23 December 1947 -)
Years Active: 1967 - present
Associated Acts: The Marbles (1968 - 69), Alcatrazz (1983 - 87, 2006 - present with several hiatuses), Rainbow (1979 - 80), Blackthorne (1991 - 94), Forcefield (1989 - 90), Impellitteri (1988 - 90, 2000 -02), Michael Schenker Group (1982, 2016 - present)
Voice Type: The Amazing Iron Lung
Vocal Range: E2 - C♯6 (3 Octaves + 9 Semitones)

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{Vocal Summary}
He sings really high and really loud, all the time. What more do you want?

Written by falsetokaiba (credit to Timi for the image).

Significant High Notes:

C♯6 ("I Am The King")
C6 ("All Night Long" live Tokyo 2019, "Breaking the Chains", "Dirty Like the City", "Hiroshima Mon Amour" live Seattle 2018, "Stand In Line" live Tampere 2018)
B5 ("Jet To Jet" live Vegas 2018, "Model Inc.")
B♭5 ("Breaking the Chains", "California Air (Better Than Here)" Live 2018 "Cradle to the Grave", "Dancer" Live San Jose 2018, "Finn McCool", "Hiroshima Mon Amour" live San Diego 2017, "Lost in Hollywood" 1997 version)
A5 ("Blinded Pain", "Dirty Like the City", "Evil Touch", "Going Down", "Hard Feelings", "Killer" "Model Inc.", "Over and Over", "Too Young To Die, To Drunk To Live" Live Valencia 2017, "We're Free", "Whiplash")
G♯5 ("All Night Long" Blackthorne version, "Ball of Confusion", "Breaking the Chains", "Cradle to the Grave", "Dancer" The Book version, "Dreams (Out in the Forest)", "Hunting Time", "I'm Down" live at Easington Rock Garden 2001, "Kree Nakoorie" live Puolanka 2019, "Oh! Darling" live Culver City 2000, "Stand In Line")
G5 ("Afterlife" 1993 Rehearsal session, "Bad Girl", "The Book", "Can't Get Enough of Your Love", "Cold Lady", "Cryin' Heart", "Givin' Up My Worryin'", "Going Down", "Is There A Way To Sing A Blues", "Love's No Friend" live in New York 1979, "Mercy", "Over and Over", "Rock You to the Ground", "Sanctuary", "S.O.S." The Book version, "Stripper", "Underground", "Whiplash", "White and Perfect", "Wild Inside", "The Wind Cries Mary")
F♯5 ("All Night Long" Blackthorne version, "Assault Attack", "Blinded Pain", "Broken Promises", "Danger Zone", "Dangerous Games", "Dreamin' in the Hideaway", "Evil Touch", "Firepower", "General Hospital", "God Blessed Video", "Hard Feelings", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", "I Am The King", "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight", "I'll Go Crazy", "Island in the Sun", "Jet to Jet", "The Juggler", "Liar", "Makin' Love", "Mamma Mine", "Money Talks", "Oh! Darling", "Only One Woman" Dangerous Games version, "River Deep Mountain High", "Sail On", "Searching For A Reason", "Since You Been Gone" Impellitteri version, "Skeletons In The Closet", "Tired of Being Alone", "Tonight I Fly" "Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live", "White and Perfect", "The Wind Cries Mary", "Wire And Wood", "Won't you Join Me")
F5 ("Always", "Breaking The Heart Of The City", "Can't Complain", "Dancer", "Finn McCool", "Ghost Writer In My Eye", "Goodnight and Goodbye", "Here Comes the Rain", "Hold On", "Judgement Day", "Let Me Off This Time", "Lost in Hollywood" The Book version, "Ohayo Tokyo", "Painted Lover", "Paralyzed", "River Deep Mountain High", "S.O.S.", "Samurai", "She's A Nightime Lover", "Since You Been Gone" Impellitteri version, "Starcarr Lane", "Twist the Blade", "What She Says, You Hear It Means", "Who'll Be the Next In Line", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?")
E5 ("Afterlife", "All Night Long", "Assault Attack", "Baby You're the Blood", "Bad Days Are Gone", "Bad Girl", "Breaking The Heart Of The City", "Can't Get Enough of Your Love", "Castles In the Air", "Cold Lady", "Dancer", "Danger Zone", "Dangerous Games", "Dirty Like the City", "Double Man", "Dreams (Out In the Forest)", "Eyes of the World", "Firepower", "General Hospital", "Girl from Uptown", "Going Down", "Happy Hour", "Hard Feelings", "Hit and Run", "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight", "I'm a Lover", "Insanity", "Island in the Sun", "Jet to Jet", "Liar", "Lost in Hollywood", "Makin' Love", "Mamma Mine", "Man in the Black Hat", "Mercy", "The Mirror Lies", "Mr. Genius", "No Imagination", "No Time to Lose", "Out on the Water", "Painted Lover", "Rider", "Rock You to the Ground", "Saturday's Over", "Searching For A Reason", "Set Me Free", "Since You Been Gone", "Sons And Lovers", "Spark Don't Mean a Fire", "Starcarr Lane", "Stripper", "Suffer Me", "Sunday 16", "That Ain't Nothin'", "Tired of Being Alone", "To Love Somebody", "Underground", "Walking The Talk", "White and Perfect", "Who'll Be the Next In Line", "Why Do They Do That", "Wild Inside", "Wire And Wood")
E♭5 ("Afterlife", "All Night Long" Blackthorne version, "Anthony Boy", "California Air (Better Than Here)" Several live performances "Don't Kill The Thrill", "Double Cross My Heart", "Dreamin' in the Hideaway", "Eyes of the World", "Flying Not Falling", "Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul", "Judgement Day", "Leviathan", "Long Time Gone", "Love From The Ashes", "Love's No Friend of Mine" Live New York 1979, "Mini Suite", "Not Dead Yet", "Out on the Water", "Paralyzed", "Reel to Real", "S.O.S.", "Sanctuary", "Save Me", "Secret Lover", "Skeletons In The Closet", "Skyfire", "Slow Kill", "Soul Seeker", "Spiked", "Stand in Line", "Suffer Me", "Summer in the City", "Warm Ride", "Whiplash" Reel to Real version)
D5 ("Ain't a Lot of Live in the Heart of Me", "All Night Long", "Always", "Anthony Boy", "Assault Attack", "Baby You're the Blood", "Bad Days Are Gone", "Ball of Confusion", "Be My Baby", "Breakaway", "Broken Promises", "Cajun Pink", "Can't Complain", "Catch the Rainbow" live Donnington 1980, "Cradle to the Grave", "Desert Diamond", "Desert Song", "Desire", "Don't Drink the Water", "Double Man", "Evil Touch", "Falling in Love With A Stranger", "Firepower", "General Hospital", "Ghost Writer In My Eye", "Girl from Uptown", "Givin' Up My Worryin'", "Going Down", "Happy Hour", "Here Comes the Rain", "Hit and Run", "Hold On", "The Holy Grail", "I Go To Sleep", "I Will Not Go Quietly", "Is There A Way To Sing A Blues", "It Ain't Easy", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "Jet to Jet", "Killer", "Kree Nakoorie", "Let Me Off This Time", "Lost in Hollywood", "Love's No Friend", "Makin' Love", "Model Inc.", "Money Talks", "Movin' On", "Night Games", "No Imagination", "Ohayo Tokyo", "Only You Can Lift Me", "Over and Over", "Painted Lover", "Rare Specimen", "Rock Island Line", "Rock You to the Ground", "Samurai", "Saturday's Over", "Searching For A Reason", "Show Must Go On!", "Stand Still Stella", "Starcarr Lane", "Stripper", "Such a Shame", "Sunday 16", "That Ain't Nothin'", "That's The Way That It Is", "Tired of Being Alone", "To Love Somebody", "Undercover", "Underground", "We're Free", "Welcome to America", "What She Says, You Hear It Means", "Who'll Be the Next In Line", "Will You Be Home Tonight", "Wino Song", "Wire And Wood", "Women On Wings", "Won't you Join Me", "Wrath Lane", "You Are Your Wallet")
C♯5 ("Anti-Social Disease", "Be My Baby", "Big Foot", "Blinded Pain", "Breaking the Chains", "By The Light Of The Burning Candle", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cold Lady", "The Dance", "Dancer", "Danger Zone", "Dangerous Games", "This Day", "The Day I Went Mad", "Don't Kill The Thrill", "Don't Look Down", "End Of The World", "Givin' Up My Worrying", "God Blessed Video", "Goodnight and Goodbye", "Goodnight and Goodmorning", "Greenwich Meantime", "Hard Feelings", "Hearts Under Fire", "Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", "Hungry Soul", "Hunting Time", "I Am The King", "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight", "Insanity", "Island in the Sun", "Judgement Day", "The Juggler", "Let the Wild Run Free", "Leviathan", "Look Don't Touch", "Love From The Ashes", "Midnight Crossing", "Midnight Sun", "Mr. Genius", "Oh! Darling", "Only One Woman", "Paper Flags", "Paralyzed", "Perfect Crime", "Polar Bear", "Private Eye", "Pyramid", "Rider", "Rock & Roll Heroes", "Secret Lover", "Sex Crime", "Since You Been Gone", "Skeletons In The Closet", "Slow Kill", "Sons And Lovers", "Stand in Line", "Stay Away", "Tonight I Fly", "Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live", "Truth Hits Everybody", "Twist the Blade", "United We Stand", "Walking The Talk", "The Walls Fell Down", "We Won't Be Forgotten", "What Kind Of Sanity", "Whisper In the Night", "Why Do They Do That", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Wind Cries Mary", "Winter Skin")
C5 ("All Night Long", "Always", "Baby You're the Blood", "Back Row In the Stalls", "Ball of Confusion", "The Book", "Born Innocent", "Breaking The Heart Of The City", "California Air (Better Here Than There)", "C'est La Vie", "Colder Than Cool", "Cradle to the Grave", "Cryin' Heart", "Danny", "Dead Man Walking", "Desert Diamond", "Dirty Hand", "Dirty Like the City", "Don't Drink the Water", "Don't Kill The Thrill", "Don't Look Back", "Don't Stand In The Open", "Double Man", "Everybody Wants to go There", "Eyes of the World", "Fighter's Fist", "Finn McCool", "Firepower", "Givin' Up My Worryin'", "Gypsy Ways (Win, Lose Or Draw)", "Haunted", "Here Comes The Night", "Hey That's Me", "High School Angel", "I Can't See Nobody", "I Go To Sleep", "I'll Go Crazy", "I'm a Lover", "In a Perfect World", "Into the Night", "Is There A Way To Sing A Blues", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "It's My Life", "Kree Nakoorie", "Let the Wild Run Free", "Liar", "Living By Numbers", "London 1666", "Long Time Gone", "Makin' Love", "Mamma Mine", "Mercy", "Mini Suite", "The Mirror Lies", "Money Talks", "Motorbike", "Movin' On", "My Kingdom Come", "Night Games", "No Imagination", "No Time to Lose", "Not Dead Yet", "Out on the Water", "Reel to Real", "Relaxae", "River Deep Mountain High", "S.O.S.", "Samurai", "Sanctuary", "Saturday's Over", "Set Me Free", "She's A Nightime Lover", "Show Must Go On!", "Silent Fall", "Since You Been Gone", "Something That I Am Missing", "Soul Seeker", "Spark Don't Mean a Fire", "Spiked", "Stargazer" live Donnington 1980, "The Strange", "Strangest Day", "To Love Somebody", "Wall of Sound", "Warm Ride", "We Still Remember", "We're Free", "Welcome to My Home", "What's This 'Ere Then", "Where Were You?", "Will You Be Home Tonight", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "Wings On My Feet", "Wino Song", "The Witchwood", "Women On Wings", "The Wound Is Open", "Wrath Lane")
B4 ("Afterlife", "Anthony Boy", "Assault Attack", "Bad Girl", "Be My Baby", "Blinded Pain", "Blue Boar", "Body Beautiful", "Born Innocent", "Breakaway", "Breaking the Chains", "Broken Promises", "By The Light Of The Burning Candle", "Cajun Pink", "California Air (Better Here Than There)", "Can't Get Enough of Your Love", "Castles In the Air", "Catch the Rainbow" live Donnington 1980, "Coronation", "The Dance", "Dangerous Games", "Danny", "The Day I Went Mad", "Desert Song", "Don't Drink the Water", "Don't Look Down", "Double Cross My Heart", "Dreamin' in the Hideaway", "Earth's Child (I Am Your Son)", "Elizabeth Johnson", "End Of The World", "Evil Touch", "Feeding the Beast", "Flying Not Falling", "For Tony", "General Hospital", "Ghost Writer In My Eye", "God Blessed Video", "Goodnight and Goodmorning", "Gotta Get Home", "Greenwich Meantime", "Guys From God", "Gypsy Ways (Win, Lose Or Draw)", "Happy Hour", "Hearts Under Fire", "Here Comes the Rain", "Hold On", "The Holy Grail", "Hungry Soul", "Hunting Time", "I Am The King", "I Will Not Go Quietly", "Insanity", "Is There A Way To Sing A Blues", "Island in the Sun", "It Ain't Easy", "Judgement Day", "The Juggler", "Let Me Off This Time", "Leviathan", "Lolita Crush", "Lost in Hollywood", "Love From The Ashes", "Makin' Love", "Mercy", "Midnight Sun", "Model Inc.", "Motorbike", "My Kingdom Come", "Night of the Shooting Star", "Oh! Darling", "Only You Can Lift Me", "Over and Over", "Perfect Crime", "Pyramid", "Radio Luxembourg", "Rare Specimen", "Rider", "Rock Island Line", "Rock & Roll Heroes", "Rock You to the Ground", "Sail On", "Save Me", "Secret Lover", "Set Me Free", "Show Must Go On!", "Since You Been Gone", "Skeletons In The Closet", "Skyfire", "Slow Kill", "Spiked", "Stand in Line", "Starcarr Lane", "Stargazer" live Donnington 1980, "Stay Away", "Such a Shame", "Suffer Me", "Summer in the City", "Sunday 16", "That Ain't Nothin'", "This Day", "Tired of Being Alone", "Tonight I Fly", "Too Young to Die, Too Drunk to Live", "Truth Hits Everybody", "Trying to Say Goodbye", "United We Stand", "Walking The Talk", "The Walls Fell Down", "We Won't Be Forgotten", "Welcome to America", "Welcome to my Home", "Where Were You?", "Whiplash", "Whisper In the Night", "White and Perfect", "Why Do They Do That", "Wild Inside", "Will You Be Home Tonight", "Winter Skin", "Wire And Wood", "The Witchwood", "Won't you Join Me", "The Wound Is Open", "Wrath Lane", "You Are Your Wallet")
B♭4 ("Ain't a Lot of Live in the Heart of Me", "Anti-Social Disease", "Ball of Confusion", "Big Foot", "Body Beautiful", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Desire", "Earth's Child (I Am Your Son)", "Goodbye Mr. C", "Goodnight and Goodbye", "Gotta Get Home", "Haunted", "Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul", "Hit and Run", "I Can't See Nobody", "Living By Numbers", "London 1666", "Long Time Gone", "Love's No Friend", "Man in the Black Hat", "Midnight Crossing", "Not Dead Yet", "Paper Flags", "Please Call Me", "Sex Crime", "Something About You", "Soul Seeker", "Stand Still Stella", "Storybook Children", "The Strange", "Strangest Day", "Too High to be Falling", "Twist the Blade", "We Won't Be Forgotten", "What Kind Of Sanity", "What She Says, You Hear It Means", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "Wings On My Feet", "Women On Wings")
A4 ("10/12 Observation", "Ade's Song", "Back Row In the Stalls", "The Book", "Breakaway", "Breaking The Heart Of The City", "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", "C'est La Vie", "Catch the Rainbow" live Donnington 1980, "Colder Than Cool", "Cryin' Heart", "Dead Man Walking", "Desert Diamond", "Desert Song", "Dirty Hand", "Don't Drink the Water", "Don't Look Back", "Don't Look Down", "Elizabeth Johnson", "End Of The World", "Everybody Wants to Go There", "Feeding the Beast", "Fighter's Fist", "Finn McCool", "God Made Us Free", "Going Down", "Goodbye Mr. C", "Guys From God", "Here Comes The Night", "Here Comes the Rain", "Hey That's Me", "High School Angel", "The Holy Grail", "A House Is Not A Home", "I Who Am I", "I'll Go Crazy", "I'm a Lover", "Imagining Confucius", "In a Perfect World", "Into the Night", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", "Killer", "Kukarracha", "Let Me Off This Time", "Lolita Crush", "Long Time Gone", "Look Don't Touch", "Mamma Mine", "The Mirror Lies", "Movin' On", "Night Games", "Not Dead Yet", "Oh! Darling", "Only You Can Lift Me", "Polar Bear", "Private Eye", "Relaxae", "Rider", "Sail On", "Searching For A Reason", "She's A Nightime Lover", "Silent Fall", "Sons And Lovers", "Spark Don't Mean a Fire", "Spiked", "Sunday 16", "That's The Way That It Is", "This Day", "Undercover", "Underground", "Walking The Talk", "Wall of Sound", "The Walls Fell Down", "We Still Remember", "Welcome to my Home", "What's This 'Ere Then", "Where Were You?", "Why Do They Do That", "Wild Inside", "Wino Song", "The Witchwood", "Won't you Join Me")


Significant Low Notes:

E3 ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love", "Catch the Rainbow" live Donnington 1980, "Conqueror of Both", "Don't Look Down", "Feeding the Beast", "Going Down", "A House Is Not A Home", "Killer", "Mr. Genius", "My Kingdom Come", "Ohayo Tokyo", "Paper Flags", "Pyramid", "The Soft Parade", "Such a Shame", "Trying to Say Goodbye", "Underground", "The Wind Cries Mary", "Won't you Join Me")
E♭3 ("Greenwich Meantime", "Relaxae", "Summer in the City", "Winter Skin")
D3 ("10/12 Observation", "Cajun Pink", "Catch the Rainbow" live Donnington 1980, "Conqueror of Both", "Imagining Confucius", "In a Perfect World", "Mini Suite", "Money Talks", "Sail On", "Trying to Say Goodbye", "Underground", "Wino Song")
C♯3 ("Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul", "The Loving Touch", "Oh! Darling", "Summer in the City", "Why Do They Do That", "The Wind Cries Mary")
C3 ("Don't", "Double Man", "High School Angel", "In a Perfect World", "Storybook Children", "What's This 'Ere Then")
B2 ("All Night Long" Live Munich 1980, "Back Row In the Stalls", "Eyes of the World" The Book version, "Hunting Time", "I Will Not Go Quietly", "The Loving Touch", "Only You Can Lift Me")
B♭2 ("In a Perfect World", "Ohayo Tokyo", "The Soft Parade")
A2 ("Double Man", "Imagining Confucius", "Killer", "The Soft Parade", "Sons and Lovers", "Won't you Join Me")
G♯2 ("All Night Long" Live Munich 1980, "Only One Woman" Eric Blair interview 2016)
G2 (Graham Bonnet sings and talks, "Mercy")
F♯2 ("Hunting Time")
F2 ("Mercy")
E2 ("The Soft Parade")

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{Notewatched Material/Album Ranges}Solo or with The Graham Bonnet Band:
Graham Bonnet (1977) D3 - F♯5
No Bad Habits (1978) A2 - G5
Line-Up (1981) ? - F♯5 (at least)
Here Comes the Night (1991) C3 - F♯5
Underground (1997) C♯3 - B♭5
The Day I Went Mad (1999) A2 - B5
Private-I/Back Row in the Stalls (Recorded 1975, released 2015-16) B2 - A5
The Book (2016) B2 - ? - G♯5 (at least)
Reel to Real: The Archives 1987-1992 (Recorded 1987-92, released 2018) C♯3 - F♯5
Meanwhile Back in the Garage (2018) STILL TO DO

With Alcatrazz:
No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll (1983) ? - F♯5
Disturbing the Peace (1985) F2 - G2 - G5
Dangerous Games (1986) A2 - F♯5
Born Innocent (2020): E3 - C♯6

With Michael Schenker Group/Michael Schenker Fest:
Assault Attack (1982) ? - G5
Resurrection (2018) STILL TO DO *
Revelation (2019) STILL TO DO *

With Impellitteri:
Stand in Line (1988) ? - G♯5
System X (2002) C♯3 - ? - F5 (at least)

With Forcefield:
Forcefield III: To Oz and Back (1989) ? - F♯5
Forcefield IV: Let the Wild Run Free (1990) B♭2 - G♯5

With Blackthorne:
Afterlife (1993) ? - C6
Blackthorne II - Don't Kill the Thrill (Recorded 1994, released 2016) ? - G5 (at least)

With The Marbles:
The Marbles (1970) C3 - E5

With Rainbow:
Down to Earth (1979) ? - G5

With Anthem:
Heavy Metal Anthem (2000) F♯2 - E3 - A5

With Taz Taylor Band:
Welcome To America! (2006) ? - E5

With Lyraka:
Lyraka Volume 1 (2010) ? - B4

With EZoo:
Feeding the Beast (2017) E3 - E5 (at least)

*Note that this album features the singer on only a few tracks.

A '?' in the album ranges indicates the singer recorded no significant low notes on this album.

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{Tracks not in the OP:}
(For all I know these tracks had no significant notes in them or were even instrumentals and that's the reason they weren't in the OP before, but they should probably be checked again if possible before the thread is considered to be finished.)
Daytime (The Marbles- The Marbles)
Stay With Me Baby (The Marbles- The Marbles)
Little Laughing Girl (The Marbles- The Marbles)
Weiss Heim (Rainbow- Down To Earth)
Ulcer (Michael Schenker Group- Assault Attack)
Incubus (Alcatrazz- No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll)
Tokyo (Forcefield- Forcefield III: To Oz and Back)
Rendezvous (Forcefield- Forcefield III: To Oz and Back)
Eyes of A Child (Solo- Here Comes the Night)
Parisienne Walkways (Taz Taylor Band- Welcome To America!)
The Reprise (Taz Taylor Band- Welcome To America!)
Palace Guard
Errandia
Beyond the Palace (Lyraka- Lyraka Volume 1)
Everybody Has To Go There (Solo- The Book)

All research in this thread was done by Platypus
Additional formatting by falsetokaiba

[Henny Macc]

Nice job! My only critique would be that that one G2 clip would look much better listed as "Graham Bonnet sings and talks" than "clip from Timi's range video".

[Henny Macc]

Here's a clip that was featured in Jowox's vocal range video for Bonnet back in the day that he called an A1. Obviously it doesn't actually get that low, and I think we ultimately wrote it off as having any pitch because of how whispery it is, but listening back I think I actually hear an audibly enough vocalized E2 in there. Definitely not sung and less solid than his other E2, but perhaps worth some acknowledgment.

Thoughts?

[Henny Macc]

Impellitteri deep cut here - featuring tradeoff vocals between Bonnet and what sounds like Curtis Skelton. B♭4s by Bonnet at 0:36 and D♭5s at 1:32.

[Henny Macc]

Hey Platypus, Where did we end up landing on the "Desert Diamond" D2s? I don't think they sound like Graham's voice myself, but I'm just curious if they were ruled as another band member's voice or what.