10 Musicians Who Turned Down Iconic Songs

When Daft Punk first made Discovery, there was already odds stacked against them about how the hell they were going to follow it up. They had essentially created one of the all time classic dance albums, and there was no real sense in making the same thing over again. And while Human After All was the sound of them stripping things back and getting raw, Robot Rock might have been a lot more accessible if those vocoded vocals had been done by someone else.

Although Daft Punk always saw this track as something special, their original vision for the song was to have George Michael on it, being the human voice amid all of the glitchy synths and heavy rock guitar. It might be a bit difficult to see the bluesy sound of George's voice clashing with this instrumental, but it's actually not that far off when you realize where they wanted to take it.

At this point, George was already changing his sound as well, going from the bombastic stuff that he was doing on albums like Faith and trying to incorporate that with 21st century dance textures, and Daft Punk may have been his way of breaking into the new millennium with ease. George would end up going down the way of easy listening in the next few years though, and Daft Punk would disappear off the face of Earth before giving us one last party on Random Access Memories almost a decade later. Given that that record was more about celebrating old school music the robots listened to, it's a wonder why George never came back into the fold to work with them again.