Lee Aaron - Barely Holding On - Power Rock Vocals

[@theister]

This is my favorite Lee Aaron. That chorus vocal tone is wicked heavy.

[@rockaxis10]

One of my favourite female rockers all time.

[@TotalSinging]

whats up with the people who hit "dislike" for this? No taste.

[@silviaramakers5940]

i was just thinking the same ..high five :)

[@deathblowhere]

Yeah, basically, haters gonna hate :D

[@bartolomeociuffreda8375]

I always get goose bumps when I listen to this song, I will never get tired of it, Lee Aaron rocks

[@Sabbathman1979]

Lee Aaron will always be my Metal Queen. This is a fantastic song. I love her first 6 albums through and through. Lee Aaron looked ridiculously hot (I know, she's still hot), but for a young girl of only 23 years at the time of this video her big rough edged voice is amazing, it's just pure heart piercing and wall shattering power!!!

[@Ambaryerno]

Incredible vocals AND a stunning woman.

[@TotalSinging]

Oh I wouldn't steer you anywhere that isn't good! This is one POWERFUL vocal performance. Probably one of her best on record.

[@wesloroff646]

Man this number STILL gives me chills! Love Lee Aarons voice forever

[@pascaaaalc1099]

The true Metal Queen.

[@wesloroff1]

i could listen to this song over and over. classic

[@mikekool9066]

FANTASTIC

[@geoffedwards2802]

So beautiful and talented. Love Lee Aaron.

[@lucianocolomboalves6470]

masterpiece !!!

[@serenityforsquirrels]

I saw Lee Aaron on stage live at the Spectrum in Montreal. She was not only breathtakingly beautiful but her voice blew me away at the time. Very memorable. My first concert was Dio at the Forum, followed by the Scorpions - Love at First Sting. 80s were an awesome time for music. I think we're finally getting some comparable stuff now with bands like Within Temptation, Metric, Paramore, Airborne Toxic Event, etc...

[@SwordInTheSky]

How the fuck is she stunning and such a talented singer. Soo perfect

[@JonBecker200]

I love this stuff. 80's power vocals leave nothing to the imagination. Thanks for posting this, Kevin. Great site, by the way.

[@mildredmaruri1919]

Siempre grande a través de los siglos mi favorita inspiración desde mis 12 años, 19 años después sigo pensando lo mismo Lee Aaron la mejor, sin dejar atrás a Doro ambas excelentes

[@johnathanraye5346]

Other than being totally hot.... she has great pipes !

[@TotalSinging]

@simplegr33n420 - there is no way I know of that can teach someone that Dio/Bryan Adams type rasp. Most people that do that, can just do it and can't really tell you how they do it. Anantomically whats going on is a partial closing of the vocal cords. A sort of heavy vocal fry but not quite exactly. Its hard to explain. There is a way to get distortion in the voice but ti doesn't sound exactly the same. I won't out up a video on this because of the legal problems if someone hurts themselves.

[@TotalSinging]

I knew of Lee as far back as '84. There was a free music video channel here in NYC called U68 and they played every metal/hard rock video they could get their hands on when they came on the air in Summer of '84 - including this one and "Metal Queen".

[@alexrossi4464]

So much better than most male singers! 😮😮😮

[@RabuHina]

She is such an underrated Canadian Gem

[@RabuHina]

Such a Canadian Lee Aaron is

[@johnathanraye5346]

She is THE Metal Queen !

[@gaetanlandry5323]

Awesome, great song

[@Desslar]

This would have been great as a Bond movie theme song.

[@johnathanraye5346]

you are so right

[@TotalSinging]

she does one-off shows at the festivals in Europe. She sticks mainly to her later period of music that was more AOR - more commercial. She's been doing a lot of Jazz recordings in recent years and given up the gritty Rock vocal stuff. She's still smoking hot though!

[@helmutbiehl2454]

Kevin, you are 666% right. She really was the female version of Ronnie James Dio. Her voice in this song is incedibly passionate. Doro did not have that volume.

[@0LukasYagami]

She Really has a Great voice, and really makes me remind DIO, totally aproved! the song is nice too, great ballad!

[@revertinotse8582]

Nicely Done👍

[@harryurz]

Saw her at the Reading festival circa 1987; still got the live tape of the set off the BBC! Brilliant singer......

[@jamesmusisca7547]

she's awesome hot

[@jdejaer]

Love Lee Aaron...teary-eyed every time...

[@nahoj68]

@RocktheStageNYC Was mainly her management and record companys fault. A lot of record companies was lining up to sign her for the US market (Atlantic, Chrysalis and EMI to name a few) but her Canadian record label boss said no as he wanted to open an US part of his label. But that never happened!

[@undeadda]

Wow. She's amazing. I wish girls today would try to rock like that instead of all trying to sound cute. Cute is cute but rock is forever.

[@ErichHardRock]

POWER BALLAD! WONDERFUL!

[@patrihardrock]

Desearía que esta canción durase 10', la amo. Cuánta fuerza vocal tiene Lee, es inmensa esta mujer.

[@TotalSinging]

Not saying Doro isn't great too but in my opinion Lee was better - BEFORE she went too commercial on her 3rd album. Doro has stayed more true to her metal roots but isn't as big a metal screamer as Lee was.

[@matoe123]

so beautiful, didn't hear this for a long long time

[@ВладимирУшаков-р5з]

Фантастика какой голос . Люблю ее с80 х

[@spartaflorbal]

@RocktheStageNYC well for example I can create so hard distortion in head voice ( or in heights-still have little mess in it), but not in chest:(

[@TotalSinging]

Its been my life for 25 years - I hope so!

[@otronixx]

powerful voice !!!! love it

[@seasoul2007]

I love all her albums from 80s

[@ACCH-cm9ou]

what she s singing about here,it s exactly what i m feeling........her style in this song reminds me of Dio

[@axxellein]

Heavy Metal Blues!

[@TotalSinging]

@JonBecker200 - Thanks Jon. Love your stuff too. The Tom Jones stuff is killer.

[@jahiddle]

Very underrated. She should have been up there with other successful female power vocalists like Pat Benatar and Bonnie Tyler.

[@TotalSinging]

Yes. She just couldn't get it together with a band here in the states. When she did they took all the "power" out of her voice and tried to make her a pop star like Taylor Dane. It didn't work.

[@TotalSinging]

Watch this and you'll see why I said that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3WopWN_qNuAmNE I'm also talking about the time period of the early 80's - the other female singers you are probably thinking of (like Doro Pesch) came later on after Lee. She is the original female metal screamer of the 80's.

[@kentduggan8626]

Doro first band snake bite 1979 and beast 81 warlock 83 i love lee but doro can inhale her with ease.

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

She does that suppressed vocal thing, just like Dio.

[@TotalSinging]

@AtariMaxiToriyama - Her management & label turned her away from her core hard rock sound and tried to make her into a pop sex symbol type of artist. Even she admits her music got away from her core sound and went too "pop" to try to sell more records. What bands want to do musically and what they are pressured to do by the people who guide their careers are two different things. "Cherry Pie" haunted Jani Lane until his death - a type song he was pressured into writing.

[@Imfromtheearth]

2:09 probably one of the best guitar solo's i've ever heard in my life!

[@federicozc9325]

Great song 🎵👌👏

[@jahiddle]

Nothing says 80's power rock than long hair and mustaches :)-

[@carlst-onge6446]

What a voice

[@KRF1984]

For my money she had everything but the songs. If she could've collaborated with Desmond Child or Holly Knight or the like back in the 80's she'd have been an international superstar for sure. Still, I love a lot of the stuff she did do anyway.

[@Igboman87]

Or even David Geffen

[@matthughesrocks]

She STILL can scream with the best of them.

[@Selrisitai]

@spartaflorbal Most singers who do rasp seem to get MORE rasp as they sing higher. Check out Wuthering Height's song I Shall Not Yield.

[@stratluvr]

i think lee aaron is great and and tonight is the first time I heard this song because a german guitarist said it was a good song and he was right,keep rocking lee,I told him I like burning heart by vandenburg and he said he liked holding on by lee aaron

[@glennjones2635]

I've always loved this song.... not so sure about the video though, Lee has such a powerful voice matched by only Anne Wilson & latterly Floor Jansen

[@TotalSinging]

Cheesy 80s video but man could she sing.

[@elainemarielapointe8681]

Sounds like my life. Hanging on by a thread.

[@dinaverdina4887]

Her vocal is powerfull 👍

[@maureenwagg5305]

Time machine please

[@dexm2010]

Great song, admittedly not my favorite from her, but still great. I do wonder--if she had continued to try to sing many songs like this after this album and then even on into the 90's, what effect this would have had upon her voice? I'm not a vocalist but I would think singing a song like this (especially the last chorus) must have put an incredible strain on her vocal chords.

[@TotalSinging]

No. That rasp was natural to her voice. She can still do it today, she just doesn't do it much

[@TotalSinging]

@KRF1984 - Yeah poor Lee Aaron suffered from being Canadian. She made bad choices in band members and song material. I was saying even back then she needed to hook up with a great group of hot, young American musicians and get on some US tours. Didn't happen. And then she went too commercial and that was it.

[@catrinab3294]

Does this still keep you up at night. lol. Your comments are so random.

[@davevirag5423]

😍❤💯🤟👍

[@ZX9RDan]

The iconic guitar solo has been cut short... disapointing.

[@jensschmidt3687]

"Before there was Doro...", didn't they both record their first album 1982? 🤔

[@TotalSinging]

@AtariMaxiToriyama - Watch this video and let Jani Lane explain it - /watch?v=OR1xpknCHCQ

[@TotalSinging]

if it doesn't hurt than its OK. If anything hurts when singing - its very wrong and you should stop what you are doing. But if it doesnt hurt - go for it.

[@Selrisitai]

@RocktheStageNYC Could you explain that, then? Cherry Pie is catchy and it still had that lame echo effect sound with a nice guitar solo. So people liked it. He still made other songs. What is the problem with that?

[@Coachgun67]

Agreed.

[@tim37021]

Doro Pesch is a good female rock singer too!

[@f-tech5497]

and her English even has that adorable german "Ruhrpott" accent ❤ Rgds from Germany

[@mikekool9066]

the video is great until her "Spinal Tap"dudes make an appearance

[@vinnievincent85]

Mike Kool are you kidding? They looks badass

[@starrshine5976]

Mike Kool Hahahahaha!

[@vlastacerna2183]

ještě že jeto jen písnička žejo neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@engelchenwithblueeyes]

F.... die hat ja eine Stimme

[@MrSokec]

Works perfectly thanks

[@Selrisitai]

@RocktheStageNYC What's with "went too commercial" stuff? You like what you like. If you like power metal, then that's what you do. If you like more technical, melodic music, you do that. So why do these people "go commercial"? Is that what they LIKE? Because commercial music is like -- maybe a shot of Red Bull, but the REAL music is like steak and potatoes! Did she go commercial because SHE wanted to and liked the style, or because it was the easiest way to make money?

[@Jermusicislife84]

It's kinda pathetic that whoever uploaded this and referred to her as a 'screamer'. Lee Aaron was and IS NOT a "screamer" she SINGS.....how can you refer to her as a 'screamer'. That's actually insulting.

[@TotalSinging]

oh for the love of God. relax. Dio was a screamer too. AND he sang. You can be both. Geez.

[@vinnievincent85]

@RocktheStageNYC well most people got no taste today...

[@Selrisitai]

She sounds very similar to Axel Rudi Pell.

[@МихаилШульгин-ъ9к]

Дьявольски крутой голос !!!!!

[@dkd7239]

Seriously Karen, how many cigs and whiskey did you have to do before the recording?

[@johnathanraye5346]

I know, that is the raspyest I have ever heard her.... but still great.

[@sonnycrockett5500]

Always loved this song, but man the edit in the solo is totally awful and cuts your ongoing feel.

[@alexrossi4464]

One of the best metal songs ever! Forgot the same 4! That get all the attention! This and ( don't talk to strangers), breaking the chains, are better than Metallica! ❤ Dio, Lee Aaron', dolkken, Metallica, is overrated 😢.. ...

[@harryurz]

moustache overload with Lee's band here....otherwise brilliant!

[@TotalSinging]

Yeah - cowardly lion on drums

[@drewmontez3831]

Nice pop-metal singer, and cute too (about 30 years ago in her Penthouse centerfold!) but certainly NOT the female version of Dio. I can think of at least five female singers that are much closer to Dio than Lee Aaron. She is trying to be Pat Benetar in my opinion.

[@dennis8309]

You're a moron...she wasn't in penthouse, and she's still mega hot at 56. Nobody had ever compared her to Dio but you. She has metal pipes like no other female, and where you pulled a Pat Benitar comparison is beyond me...

[@berniemadoff7105]

Great song. Terrible video.

[@TotalSinging]

Yes. A little overshadowed by the child pedophile thing.

[@stighaaland5357]

Wrong.