Rolling Stone Choses Top 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time; ROBERT PLANT, FREDDIE MERCURY Make The Top 2
November 12, 2008, 15 years ago
Rollingstone.com has chosen their Top 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time - the following hard rock/metal icons made the list:
#15 - ROBERT PLANT
#18 - FREDDIE MERCURY
#45 - KURT COBAIN
#47 - JIM MORRISON
#55 - PAUL RODGERS
#61 - ROGER DALTREY
#64 - AXL ROSE
#76 - STEVE PERRY
#99 - STEVEN TYLER
Check out the entire list here.
Read the Rolling Stone Robert Plant write-up below:
As a teenager in the English Midlands, Robert Plant was obsessed with the rawest American blues. "When I saw SLEEPY JOHN ESTES and heard that voice - part pain, part otherworldly - I went, 'I want that voice,'" Plant told Rolling Stone in 2006. Somehow, he got that voice, and more: The unearthly howl he unleashed with LED ZEPPELIN was a bluesman crossed with a Viking deity. Singing like a girl never seemed so masculine, and countless hard-rock singers would shred their vocal cords reaching for the notes Plant gained by birthright. "His voice is picturesque," says collaborator ALISON KRAUSS. "It sounds so new and so old at the same time, with this crazy European mystery to it."
Robert Plant and QUEEN:
