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Bob Dylan Stevie Wonder Neil Young Aretha Franklin Mick Jagger Keith Richards Joni Mitchell David Byrne Bruce Springsteen Iggy Pop Diana Ross Robert Plant Jimmy Page David Gilmour |
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I think you have to factor in sales because it's the only way to measure wide broad appeal.
Michael Jackson had the biggest selling album in the world - Thriller. In terms of music icons he's arguably the biggest music icon that's gone this century. I would imagine Paul McCartney is the closest living equivalent given the world wide appeal of the Beatles. Madonna would be the female equivalent. In terms of UK sales, Cliff Richard would have to be up there too. He is the third best selling artist in UK pop history. Even if you're not a fan of Cliff, he is a pop icon. And let's face it, this is a great pop song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNP5yqg7hc
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Cliff Richard yes....it's funny people are so famous they can be forgotten, yet known globally by his first name.
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Fats Domino is still around on Bluebery Hill at 88 years old.
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Gilmour but not Waters?
It's what stops me from adding Phil Collins to the list .. and Bono though they undoubtedly deserve to be there but Peter Gabriel should be added for sure. |
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Michael Jackson had the biggest selling album in the world - Thriller
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A very subjective list, I would not have anyone listed above in any list I could draw up.
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I think you have to factor in sales because it's the only way to measure wide broad appeal.
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Fats Domino is still around on Bluebery Hill at 88 years old.
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A very subjective list, I would not have anyone listed above in any list I could draw up.
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Is Jerry Lee Lewis still alive as i never heard him passed away recently
I'd include Doris Day and Keeley Smith in that list too. |
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Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated and important artists of the 20th century. I will even go as far as to say she’s the most influential female artist of all time. She’s had a profound effect on music, and she has inspired a vast number of artists from many genres of music. Madonna herself has talked about her admiration for Joni’s music. Blue and Court & Spark are considered benchmark recordings and are still routinely discussed and referenced today. She’s a formidable talent, and it will be a great loss when she goes. Sales aren’t the be-all and end-all. Joni's Blue has only sold an estimated five million copies worldwide but has had a bigger and more valuable effect on other artists and their work than any album released by Madonna. Madonna’s death will make a bigger splash in the media. She’s always been a celebrity as much as she is a performer. Her influence is a superficial one. It’s very rare for credible and respected artists to reference Madonna’s work as a source of inspiration. It’s mostly manufactured pop singers of varying degrees of talent who talk about Madonna and they always seem to talk about her longevity and reinvention more than her music. Even Joni Mitchell said Madonna marks the turning point when Americans started to become dumb. Paul McCartney has also been less than complimentary in the past. She’s the precursor to all of these mildly talented female singers who rely on writers and producers as well as their looks and sexuality. She has inspired Katy Perry and Britney Spears while Joni has inspired Kate Bush and Prince. I admire Madonna for going out and forging a successful career for herself, but she’s still an overrated, reductive, thin-voiced, delusional narcissist who wouldn’t have a career without a good team behind her. Even George Michael wrote and produced most of his material by himself. He admired Joni's music a lot. Quote:
A very subjective list, I would not have anyone listed above in any list I could draw up.
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TBH I always thinks of that as being a Quincy Jones creation with MJ doing the vocal stylings (very poor singer at that point in his career) and the name on the front to sell to the punters.
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Thinking of tons of others now. The problem is you start off with Dylan and McCartney and before long you are remembering Paul Simon, Brian Wilson and wondering which Kinks, Byrds, Animals, etc are still alive. Then there's always ones you forget from even further back (Doris Day, Little Richard, Tony Bennett) and you've not even touched punk, soul (much), rap or disco. Never mind John Williams and all the movie soundtracks or a million other areas. Then there's a ton of huge-selling bands like Abba, ELO, ACDC.......and on and on and on through every decade.
It's difficult to draw a line between the ''would be agreed by anyone with any knowledge of music to be a musical icon like Dylan'' and the many many others who could be seen in the same light by some depending on their tastes. And it's impossible not to bend such a list towards your own tastes somewhat. That's only natural. The closest you could get to objectivity would be to ask a thousand 'experts' (however you want to decide that but to judge such a thing you'd need to have heard a wide range of music I suppose) and have a giant blackboard where everyone names suggestions, then have them all compile individual lists, then amalgamate the lot and see which names get the most votes. And there would be a lot of checking about who is still alive because some of those names are surprising. |
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Britney seems safe for now.
I am wondering about either Elton or (strangely) Eminem. |
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What a stupid thread
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Tina Turner.
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Blimey.
The Watership Down writer was the main story on the BBC for just a few minutes until Carrie Fisher
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Billy Joel
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Yeah he's still going strong at 81 and married wife number 7 as recently as 2012.
I'd include Doris Day and Keeley Smith in that list too. |
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I'm not sorry to say that I find this thread to be in very bad taste.
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Sade
Diana Ross Janet Jackson Annie Lennox Madonna Mick Jagger Paul McCartney Sting Phil Collins Aretha Franklin Dionne Warwick Stevie Wonder Billy Ocean |
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Brian Wilson Don Everly Still some legends standing Pop icon Chuck Berry is still alive too! We forget these 50s icons are still alive. |
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Fats Domino is still alive incredibly, as is Jerry Lee Lewis.
Pop icon Chuck Berry is still alive too! We forget these 50s icons are still alive. Maybe the icons from fifties hardly took any drugs. And the during the sixties they were so many types of drugs to choose from. So more celebrities took them which meant more would pass away later in life |
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