Top Ten Rock Musicians Who Deserve More Fans
James Newell Osterberg, Jr., known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker. "Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around..." (Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of keyboardist Keith Emerson, singer, bassist, and producer Greg Lake, and drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer.
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work in the hard rock/metal bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He was ranked number 16 on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004, and number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. In 2016 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of original members of Deep Purple. Ironically and sadly, popularity of his riff to Smoke On the Water became an obstacle to acknowledgement of his achievements and contributions that are significantly bigger than this riff. He's criminally underrated in relation to metal music invention. Also, his work in Rainbow is practically unknown but namely in Rainbow he took metal to a whole new level.
David Coverdale is an English rock singer most famous for his work with Whitesnake, the commercially successful hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from late 1973 to 15 March 1976, when he resigned from the band and established his solo career. Yes, he deserves more attention.
William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor.
Marc Bolan, born Mark Feld (30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer of the glam rock band T. Rex. Bolan was one of the first pioneers of the glam rock movement of the 1970s. He died at age 29 in a ...read more.
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" was an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds (the other two being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page). Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. This man is ridiculously underrated... however he is one of the greatest guitarist ever!
His two band mates - clapton and page became famous but he remained unpopular
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer, best known as the founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," while his individual style melds a jazz background with African rhythms.
Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959) was an American musician and singer-songwriter who was a central figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was a rising star when a tragic plane crash struck him down at age 22. ...read more.
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer who was best known for his work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Jimi Hendrix's popularity teared his popularity
John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. Very popular from the Sex Pistols, but the true skill and talent from this man come from Public Image Limited. Completely underrated, and have completely turned the music industry and even basic forms of music on their head with creative and unexpected twists and turns. And even at 60 years old he is still going strong, and still tours and records relentlessly. Even after taking a 26er bottle to the head, he still just wraps his head in a towel and continues to perform, and this was very recent! An extreme amount of dedication to his fans, and deserves many more.
Patrick Martin Stumph, known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor and music critic, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist and composer of Fall Out Boy, an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois.
Brian Patrick Carroll, known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who has worked within many genres of music.
John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. Created punk rock.influenced a lot of metal musicians (even metallica were influenced by them) and still only few knows him
Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician, most widely recognised as a singer, songwriter, and virtuoso rock and blues guitarist.
Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist.Smokey Robinson is soul/r&b musician, not rock musician!
Ian Gillan is an English singer and songwriter. He originally found success as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple, and the original singer on the rock opera concept album Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber, where Gillan had the leading role (Jesus Christ). The most underrated rock/metal singer of all time. His vocal skills are amazing - powerful voice with a 4 octave vocal range (same range as Freddie), his vibrato is one of the widest ever, and so on. Also, his singing style and screams influenced metal singing - I would say he was the first accomplished metal singer. He deserves more fans.
Steven John Wilson is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the progressive rock genre. He is best known for his band Porcupine Tree.
Sebastian Philip Bierk, known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987-96. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted in Broadway plays, and leads a solo career. Other glam metal bands got famous but he couldn't get much of popularity.are we forgetting songs like I remember you,18 and life?
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia.