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Bliss
Dylan excels as a lyricist but hardly as a vocalist, his compositions aren't all that great, guitar playing is average, and he is not visually exciting.
Elvis rates extremely highly as a performer and singer, plus his early wonderful looks, but he wasn't a great composer or lyricist.
Paul McCartney is a contender, but his compositions and lyrics are uneven, to say the least. (Wings)
Eric Clapton writes, sings and especially plays exceptionally well, but is not much of a performer.
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Bliss
It should be someone who ideally excels as a musician, vocalist, lyricist, composer and performer, and whose originality pushed the artistic standards and boundaries of his/her time higher. Obviously, no one is at the top in all those categories, and it's possible to miss out on one category altogether, eg, Elton John is not a lyricist.
Contenders:
Mick Jagger
Michael Jackson
Joni Mitchell
Jim Morrison
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
It seems essential to have your name begin with J.
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Bliss
Dylan excels as a lyricist but hardly as a vocalist, his compositions aren't all that great, guitar playing is average, and he is not visually exciting.
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Gazza
all of them more important than Bob Dylan?
Laughable.
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Redhotcarpet
Hendrix. No contest.
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Bliss
Dylan excels as a lyricist but hardly as a vocalist, his compositions aren't all that great, guitar playing is average, and he is not visually exciting.
Elvis rates extremely highly as a performer and singer, plus his early wonderful looks, but he wasn't a great composer or lyricist.
Paul McCartney is a contender, but his compositions and lyrics are uneven, to say the least. (Wings)
Eric Clapton writes, sings and especially plays exceptionally well, but is not much of a performer.
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superrevvy
Jagger is the most important culturally, because of his strength in all the
mentioned categories plus additional categories like fashion and staging and dance
and conceptual art and media manipulation and fan manipulation and spiritual
enlightenment and emotional health and business success, but all of the artists on
the following poster are greater than Mick in some or at least one of the
categories and so deserve at least honorable mention.
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Bliss
Dylan excels as a lyricist but hardly as a vocalist, his compositions aren't all that great, guitar playing is average, and he is not visually exciting.
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Bliss
Dylan excels as a lyricist but hardly as a vocalist, his compositions aren't all that great, guitar playing is average, and he is not visually exciting.
The credibility of this thread is shot to f**k in the space of six words.
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Rollin' Stoner
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