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The most influential singer/songwriter of the 20th century?
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Twinkle Toes
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Val Doonican.
Mr Banana
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Burt Bacharach
Andy Williams
Carole King/Gerry Goffin
Lennon and McCartney
Chuck Berry
Prince
Brian Wilson
Impossible to compare all those or even rank them but I reckon they are just as influential especially as they were POP artists and writers.
Andy Williams
Carole King/Gerry Goffin
Lennon and McCartney
Chuck Berry
Prince
Brian Wilson
Impossible to compare all those or even rank them but I reckon they are just as influential especially as they were POP artists and writers.
Icy Gull
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Except by their own admission Holly influenced pretty well all of them, in particular the Beatles, and his contribution goes back to the mid 50's when pop music was SHITE generally. Not forgetting Holly died when he was only 22
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Oh nonsense. Everybody's got influences. The Beatles were also influenced by skiffle so are you saying that Lonnie Donegan is a greater influence than Lennon himself? Of course not. They take the influences and then go on to influence other people themselves.
And whilst we are on the subject Berry was there BEFORE Holly (who I don't deny was a massively important musician) and he influenced Lennon and McCartney and Jagger/Richards just as much. And just because someone dies young doesn't make their greatness necessarily more than say Berry or James Brown.
Pop music has always been great and SHITE (as you put it) in equal measure. It's meant to be. It's an impossible task to say who was greater. Music isn't some objective pure science. Let's just agree that we could name a list of the great influential singer songwriters but that to rank them is as meaningless as it is futile.
But I can't pass the chance to post "Everyday". Great song by a true great.
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Garage_Doors
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John Lydon/ Glen matlock
dougdeep
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İbrahim Tatlıses;2891381 said:
So when did he write a song then?
GT49er
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I thought "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" was one of his?
Don Quixote
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John Lennon and Paul Mcartney. The best. The greatest, there is no point talking aobut it anymore. It is OBVIOUS! The Beatles influenced everyone, they changed the world. The moment Sgt pepper came out the world changed, music changed forever and so forth John Lennon and Paul Mcartney are the greatest ever.
1234andcounting
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Almost impossible to answer, really, but probably whoever fused together the various strains of music that eventually came together to form rock n roll and therefore virtually all of what is popular music. Several candidates - Ike Turner with Rocket 88, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley. But then, do you have to list the people who influenced them? Dylan was influenced by Woodie Guthrie and Leadbelly; who influenced them. What about Robert Johnson or any of the other Mississippi Delta Bluesmen. Alan Lomax, whilst admittedly not a singer-songwriter, was responsible for recording a lot of 'traditional, music from the '30s onwards.
Undoubtedly, Buddy Holly inspired a lot of white musicians that rock n roll could be a white man's business, but then a whole load of 60s musicians were hardly influenced at all by mainstream pop type rock n roll. And, yes Lennon and McCartney transformed the whole view of pop music and inspired 1000s, if not tens of 1000s of teenagers to pick up a guitar and try to write songs.
Undoubtedly, Buddy Holly inspired a lot of white musicians that rock n roll could be a white man's business, but then a whole load of 60s musicians were hardly influenced at all by mainstream pop type rock n roll. And, yes Lennon and McCartney transformed the whole view of pop music and inspired 1000s, if not tens of 1000s of teenagers to pick up a guitar and try to write songs.
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umm....but there would have been no Sgt Pepper without Pet Sounds. It influenced the album enormously. This whole argument is silly.
As Icy Gull says, it's all about opinions.
Don Quixote
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There would be no pet sounds without RUBBER SOUL!
Super Steve Earle
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Super Steve Earle of course.
Well perhaps not the most influential, but stiil the mutts nuts.
Well perhaps not the most influential, but stiil the mutts nuts.
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İbrahim Tatlıses;2891381 said:
I hear that Rolf Harris is doing the art work for MJ's london shows so MJ will be doing Two Little Boys afterwards
Taybha
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Marc bolan would have been somebody i would have thought that could do a job in any era
Jam The Man
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He has written the vast majority of his songs... and contrary to popular belief, can actually play most instruments too