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Also ranks #13 on The 250+ Best Songwriters Of All Time, Ranked 67 Sting Medieval music, Classic rock, New Wave 1,937 votes With his unmistakable voice and poetic lyricism, Sting has carved out a multi-decade career as both the lead singer of The Police and a ...
Also ranks #4 on The Greatest Living Rock Songwriters 8 Paul McCartney 2,316 votes As a founding member of The Beatles and an accomplished solo artist, Paul McCartney arguably stands as one of the most influential figures in popular music. His incredible talent, both as a singer and so...
The first great British reggae band — and some of the style’s finest songwriters — made their Island Records debut with this incendiary look at the rising tide of racist violence in late-Seventies Britain: “The Ku Klux Klan/Here to stamp out Black man.” They underlined the lyric by ...
[22] Pop music in China in this period was dominated by Mandopop songs from Taiwan and Cantopop from Hong Kong, however the 1980s saw the beginning of rock music in China, with the emergence of singer-songwriters such as Cui Jian, followed by others such as He Yong and bands such as ...
We’re celebrating one of the UK’s most consistently creative singer-songwriters and frontmen of the past five decades, with 20 of the best songs in the extraordinary catalog ofPaul Weller. Weller, born on May 25, 1958, had already achieved more than most musicians ever do with his two ...
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history o
Singles like “Fu-Gee-La” and “Ready or Not” showed that the kids from New Jeru had grown into seriously thoughtful songwriters and producers who could craft hits with the best of them. Even the covers on the album were incredible. All told, Lauryn Hill, Pras Michel, and Wyclef Jean...
Towing nine Grammy awards and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she’s been hailed as “one of the greatest songwriters ever.” What makes Mitchell so unique is her ability to write songs with the same chords but in different tunings – one song had 50 different var...
“The Girl From Ipanema,”“Waters of March,”“Desafinado" — Antonio Carlos Jobim’s songs speak for themselves about the magnitude of his impact. The Brazilian musician is one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century in any language. The bossa nova founder’s compositions are ...