Have a look here to compare Mick's vocal range with various other singers. It will also tell you the song he hits his lowest note on and the song he hits the highest. Any guesses?

[www.concerthotels.com]

Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

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Have a look here to compare Mick's vocal range with various other singers. It will also tell you the song he hits his lowest note on and the song he hits the highest. Any guesses?

[www.concerthotels.com]

I would guess the lowest note is in All The Way Down. The highest might be in Too Tough or Hearts For Sale. Possibly also God Gave Me Everything.

Nice try dandelion but no cigar sorry

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

That just can´t be true. Can you imagine Robert Plant sing the low notes in Love is strong or Dead flowers and Mick Jagger singing Black Dog?

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

That just can´t be true. Can you imagine Robert Plant sing the low notes in Love is strong or Dead flowers and Mick Jagger singing Black Dog?

Immigrant Song, more to the point!

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Nice try dandelion but no cigar sorry

All The Way Down has to be correct??

From 0 to 100 on 3 seconds...That's what I call a vocal range...

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

That just can´t be true. Can you imagine Robert Plant sing the low notes in Love is strong or Dead flowers and Mick Jagger singing Black Dog?

Mick can sing a powerful falsetto, so I wouldn't worry about that

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

That just can´t be true. Can you imagine Robert Plant sing the low notes in Love is strong or Dead flowers and Mick Jagger singing Black Dog?

Mick can sing a powerful falsetto, so I wouldn't worry about that

Mick singing Black Dog in falsetto would be great fun to hear. That´s a totally different technique.

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range. I'll take their word for it, but I can't say I'd have thought that.

That just can´t be true. Can you imagine Robert Plant sing the low notes in Love is strong or Dead flowers and Mick Jagger singing Black Dog?

Mick can sing a powerful falsetto, so I wouldn't worry about that

Mick singing Black Dog in falsetto would be great fun to hear. That´s a totally different technique.

I know, but it could definitely be done - even convincingly, imo.

According to them anyway the lowest is love is strong and highest is start me up

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According to them anyway the lowest is love is strong and highest is start me up

Listen to the "down, down, down" in the bridge in All The Way Down. They are wrong

I think even the chorus in When The Whip Comes down is higher than his highest note on Start Me Up.

I would have picked the first line in Ruby Tuesday-Mick struggles to find the low note on the "from"

The "from" in the first line of Ruby Tuesday is definitely one of the lowest if not the lowest

Edit: I type slower than ozziestone but: what s/he said! :E



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The "from" in the first line of Ruby Tuesday is definitely one of the lowest if not the lowest

Edit: I type slower than ozziestone but: what s/he said! :E

He was a kid back then

Listen here (at 2:15). Seriously, people??







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So this list is just the greatest (rock and roll) singers, or are people like Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald not considered great singers anymore?

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Hmm. According to that, Mick and Robert Plant have got exactly the same vocal range.

Together with Nina Simone.

Micks highest note that I can think of is the intro to Waiting on A Friend.

I'm not convinced that this is accurate. Brian Wilson could only sing one tone higher than Bob Dylan ? I mean Brian at his peak ? I'm not convinced Lennon and McCartney's are accurate or Jimbo yeah c'mon Morrison's either.
Interesting idea though.

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I'm not convinced that this is accurate. Brian Wilson could only sing one tone higher than Bob Dylan ? I mean Brian at his peak ? I'm not convinced Lennon and McCartney's are accurate or Jimbo yeah c'mon Morrison's either.
Interesting idea though.

Yeah, seems kinda bogus to me too. In any case, it's not the range that counts, it's what you can do with it, and Mick does so much more than most of the singers listed.

John Lennon told Playboy that in the song Hard Day's Night—a wholly John composed song—the only reason Paul sang the "holding me tight" bit was that "I couldn't reach the notes." So it doesn't make sense that that "World's Greatest Singers" graph shows John's and Paul's upper range as equal.

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John Lennon told Playboy that in the song Hard Day's Night—a wholly John composed song—the only reason Paul sang the "holding me tight" bit was that "I couldn't reach the notes." So it doesn't make sense that that "World's Greatest Singers" graph shows John's and Paul's upper range as equal.

I think you're reading it backwards...it seems to show that Paul actually has a higher range than John.

Sorry but that chart can't be right.

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Sorry but that chart can't be right.

I agree; I view this whole thing with some skepticism. For example, Lennon hit low G in I'm a Loser. ("...beneath this mask I am wearing a frown" with frown getting waaayyy down low. Macca has even commented that he couldn't come close to going that low.)

Just check any live version of Rocks Off in the last ten years. That should tell you all you need to know.

Plant was singing in a lower register as late (or early) as 1977. Listen to Black Dog or Over the Hills from 1977 or Knebworth. Nothing wrong with doing that.

In "Emotional Rescue" Jagger hits very high and damn low. Not probably the record in either register, but widest range within a song.

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My guess for low register for Mick would have been the "You will be mine, you will be mine, all mine" part in Emotional Rescue, and for highest, the "Hoo-hoo" part in Fool To Cry as well as the opening lines of Worried About You--that's balls in a vice high register.