Who is the greatest artist musical talent of all time

That's Hendrix level stuff right there.

Rothko wrote: »

I'd agree about Bowie but Paul had a great voice.

I'd be with you here R, though I would say Bowie had a very distinctive voice too. On Macca, here's one of the Beatles more chintzy tunes(though as per usual, underneath more complex than it sounds), a demo where they're not really going for the take, but forget about the song and listen to McCartney's voice at the start, preferably in headphones. He's signing in that range beyond his speaking voice, yet pitch perfect, it almost sounds autotuned 30 odd years before that was possible.



And as he says at the start he's singing like that "with ciggie in mouth".

Or this one, a home demo on 1960's tape equipment, singing a guide track for a song he wrote for the register of a woman, Mary Hopkins, a recent signing to their record label Apple(Steve Jobs was to rue his later choice of company names* ).

He had a pretty good voice and range to be fair.




*though Jobs named his company thus because he was a major Beatles fan, lawsuits kicked off, but things were settled. Apple computers could be free to do their thing, so long as they steered clear of music. If you own an Apple mac today, go into the Sound System prefs and you will see an alert sound called "Sosumi", an internal Apple thing they came up with, claimed to be a Japanese instrument sound, but... "so sue me"....