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Greatest Living Rock Star On The Planet

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  • #32
    Lucifer MorningStar
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    Trent Reznor


  • #33
    Sonderkommando
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    Lemmy


  • #34
    frankoreagan
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    Another vote for the boss. He doesn't need that robot voice or a poxy cherry-picker to pad out his shows like that twat Kanye either.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Slash


  • #36
    barneystinson
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Living?

    The man was a corpulant mess when he was alive, several decades six foot under are unlikely to have improved him

    He's not dead... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBQlWhYA0lw ;)


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  • #37
    NachoBusiness
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    The greatest living rock star (in the true sense of the word 'rock' at least) has to be Ozzy.

    Will be 67 later this year and is still giving it his all..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDPa97B-EJI


  • #38
    Summer wind
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    Billy Idol.


  • #39
    NachoBusiness
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    Summer wind wrote: »
    Billy Idol.

    Yeah, good shout actually. Seen him at Vicar St just before Christmas and he was amazing, no sign of him going through the motions as many performers of his age are prone to do. If anything he is just as energetic on stage these days as he was back in the 80s.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjmGbi8l8M


  • #40
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Has to be axl....having naps before gigs and not going on stage until he wakes up and running up curfew fines every night....pure rock star


  • #41
    dobman88
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    Dave Grohl ainec



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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
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    This guy from a Dutch or something band. http://i.imgur.com/mkjiGBo.gifv

    I've never heard his music but it doesn't even matter.


  • #43
    NachoBusiness
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    Vedder needs a mention too.. legend.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvm9UUCNeCE


  • #44
    Blackhorse Slim
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    Already been said, but Lemmy. No one living comes close, the man personifies rock.

    Also if you ask most of the people mentioned above, they will tell you it's Lemmy. Except Kanye, obviously.


  • #45
    jimboblep
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    robert plant


  • #46
    Titzon Toast
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    Josh Homme.


  • #47
    nokia69
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    Black francis


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
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    Best frontman is obviously Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, he also did the heroin od/heart stopping thing to confirm his rock star like credentials...but whether electronic rock qualifies is another thing...


  • #49
    Washington Irving
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    David Bowie. Honorable mention to Jagger, Richards, Page, May, Townshend, Strummer and Iggy Pop.

    In terms of contribution to music Paul McCartney has no equal, but I don't think he encapsulates 'rockstar' in the meaning the question implies.

    For those taking the question as currently performing rockstars then Springsteen. Grohl isn't a bad shout either though I'm not a huge fan of his music wise.


  • #50
    The_Valeyard
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    I don't know, is the age of rock stars gone?


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    Washington Irving wrote: »
    David Bowie. Honorable mention to Jagger, Richards, Page, May, Townshend, Strummer and Iggy Pop.

    Strummer? Living?


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  • #52
    triggermortis
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    Jeff Lynne


  • #53
    Luciano Plain Roundworm
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    Grohl major player in nirvana and foos and he's been involved in some other damn good bands to boot also he actually plays Rock music


  • #54
    Jesus Wept
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    ed sheeran


  • #55
    Mike Litoris
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    Greatest douche on the planet!

    All the greats are dead.


  • #56
    bnt
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    Doris300 wrote: »
    Is he headlining Glastonbury or making great albums in the last decade? No. We're talking right now.
    McCartney's last album "New" hit #3 on the UK and US album charts. He headlined the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, which had an audience of about 750 million. Does that count? :cool:

    I watched about half of Kanye at Glastonbury last night. Overwhelming sense of "is that it?" The lights looked "classic", but it takes more than good lighting to make you a rock star, and Kanye doesn't have any of "it".

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #57
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher are the two greatest songwriters still with us today. Now that they're buddies I want to hear the fruit of the collaboration that they teased back in 2012.


  • #58
    fergiesfolly
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    Dave Grohl....
    Breaks leg on stage.
    Leaves for treatment.
    Returns to finish set.

    ROCKSTAR


  • #59
    Firefox11
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    Bono


  • #60
    Wang King
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    Anyone who doesn't need autotune....
    Kanye is to rock, as Jimmy Savile is to childcare


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  • #61
    fryup
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    barneystinson wrote: »
    Elvis Presley
    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Living?

    The man was a corpulant mess when he was alive, several decades six foot under are unlikely to have improved him

    he ain't dead, he's just taking a break


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