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Post by mrmustard on Sept 18, 2008 22:45:45 GMT
Ask your average rock music fan who their favourite lead vocalists are and I bet Lennon and McCartney would not likely feature. The typical top 5 would likely include the likes of Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, Ian Gillan, Elton John, Elvis, Jim Morrison Steven Tyler perhaps. All great singers but for my money Lennon and McCartney are every bit as good, and better, both technically and inspirationally even though they are not front men type vocalists as such. Does anyone agree/disagree with this? For what it's worth my top 5 would include Lennon, McCartney, Paul Rodgers, Chris Cornell, Jon Anderson. On another day it would include Greg Lake, John Wetton or Rob Lamothe. Who would be in yours?
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Post by The End on Sept 19, 2008 13:32:00 GMT
Good point.
I guess it all depends on the type of people you are asking - nowerdays, for me the term "rock" means bands from the Seventies and on - basically anything post Purple Haze! So if you were to ask me best Rock vocalist I wouldn't immediately think of Lennon/McCartney.
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Post by Bobber on Sept 22, 2008 7:43:09 GMT
Who said that 'in Liverpool, nobody sang like Paul McCartney'. I've read it somewhere, but can't remember properly.
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Post by alexis on Sept 22, 2008 16:33:37 GMT
I remember reading that too, it was someone from one of the other bands of the time/place ... maybe Rory Storm's. What I remember about the quote is that it was referring to how powerfully they closed out sets/gigs when he used that Little Richard voice of his - Long Tally Sally, Kansas City, etc.
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