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: Who is the most iconic artist of all time, Michael Jackson, Beatles or Elvis?
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I was having this argument with my sister and I was wondering what other people thought on the subject. Personally I think that they are as iconic as each other but my sister is set on Michael Jackson being the most iconic. What do you think?
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Iconic? Beatles.
Michael Jackson did naff all in comparison.
Sarcasm?
She's well known but not iconic. She'll be around for several more years yet but I doubt she'll be up there with the likes of MJ, The Beatles, Madonna, Elvis, Kate Bush, Queen etc.
The KING of Pop with the highest selling album of all time would disagree.
You missed off the "Self proclaimed" part.
And Britney Spears has also sold a boat load of records, is she in the mix aswell?
Does Britney Spears have the highest selling record of all time? That alone is enough to descredit the claims above that MJ didnt do much.
He sold alot of records... that's about it. He doesn't even come remotely close to the Beatles or Elvis in cultural impact or iconic status.
Elvis Presley = Icon
Michael Jackson = Con
Looking at the charts in 1962 and just two years later reveals a completely different landscape, pretty much entirely because of the changes the Beatles brought about on both sides of the Atlantic. And, with the Beatles again in the vanguard, the latter half of the 1960s would see perhaps an even more pronounced shift.
Albums such as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album and Abbey Road are master classes in songwriting and musicianship. For a band that broke up over forty years ago it is astonishing that they are still regularly cited as influences by new acts.
Jackson was a phenomenon, but not in the same league as the Beatles and Elvis.
A couple of big selling albums. But he's not up with the big boys like the Beatles, Stones and Elvis. Even as far as Black singers go, Marvin and Stevie are probably far more iconic. They're certainly more consistent.
They're not, I was just stating not only was Jacko not as Iconic as Honky Homeboys the Beatles, Stones and Elvis, but he was also not as Iconic as Marvin and Stevie.
Bullshit Jacko is more Iconic than Marvin or Stevie. In forty years time will people be praising Bad, Thriller or Off the Wall like Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life, What's Going On? No.
If Jacko hadn't died he'd have continued his sliding journey to being an utter joke. Now he's brown bread all the Wacko Jacko nuts try and put sainthood on him. He invented this,he invented that, he was first at this, he was first at that. Jacko was first at doing nothing other than selling a ****load of one album.
Don't get me wrong, al three of his albums from that period are good but folk like Prince pissed all over him.
But he sold alot...
Who needs record sales when she had THE VOICE (although she did have a lot of record sales too).
If I had to rank them, I'd say Beatles are slightly more iconic than Elvis and Elvis is more iconic than Michael Jackson. I have a feeling our generation will be the last to really remember MJ's music, bar from a few all time classics like 'Billie Jean' and 'Beat It' maybe. But I may be proven wrong.