Hard rock/metal songs by artists better known for other genres

Metal master Number of posts : 648 Age : 30

So, we all know Michael Jackson flirted with hard rock on these two tracks:

And his sis' followed in his steps a few years later too:

So I was wondering, can anyone think of any other bands/musicians from other genres that had similar dabblings into hard rock or metal?

Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts : 25557 Age : 53

This is as rockin' as the Osmonds every got. Love this song.

Puny Human (a stoner rock band) did a decent cover of this.

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Metal is Forever Number of posts : 7641 Age : 56

So did Tank:

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Of course, there is Prince, but he does what he wants.

En Vogue did this tune:

Then there is Martika (yes that Martika). I saw her band Oppera open for Pat Benatar around 2004. I didn't even know that it was her. They sounded really good live......... So I bought the album that was out at that time.

I guess that they released two albums

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