Greatest Musicians of All Time

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The Top Ten

1Michael Jackson

HE IS LEGEND
NO ONE CAN BEAT HIM

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2Paul McCartney

Keep calm and save rock 'n roll

3Freddie Mercury

Greatest LEGEND THERE IS. It's right that he's number one here. He made songs out of great fun and out of pure genius. No one can compare to how genius Freddie was. His music will be forever cherished till the end of time... RIP Freddie Mercury, you were truly the greatest.

Well this is legend not musician what is he doing on this list he should be at 1 st place at top 10 legends list.

4Slash

5M. Shadows

6John Lennon

7K.S. Chithra

What a grace she has... CHITHRA IS LIVING LEGEND
NO ONE CAN BEAT HER, SHE SHOULD BE IN THE TOP ONE, WILL BE, YES

8Synyster Gates

9Elvis Presley

can't stand his music but he is the king of rock and I just got to except that

A legendary singer one of the best selling over all musicians and the best selling solo musician

10Ludwig van Beethoven

Come on, people! What Beethoven created being deaf no other musician came close to achieving, even with perfect hearing.

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I can't believe this guy's only fourth! He should at least be ahead of ELVIS. So deep and pure and beautiful! Greatest music ever written

Beethoven the greatest, purest, deepest, most original musical mind ever. His music is quality in a very beautiful and elegant form. He composed many pieces that is humanly impossible. But he did it! He wrote great music notwithstanding his health problems. What more if he had lived longer and healthy?

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The Contenders

11Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Presley, Dylan. and Jackson above Mozart and Beethoven! Good God. Well... at least some of us know who these two are. >_>

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Mozart is the best musician in all time

It you water it all down, you will find that all the music we have today is based on the work of Mozart.

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12George Harrison

13Bob Dylan

14Ozzy Osbourne

15Kirk Hammett

16Malcolm Young

GUTARIST BROTHERS

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17Phil Rudd

18Kurt Cobain

19Rick Savage

BASS GUATIAR

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20Rick James

Rick James was way ahead of his time. And America still has not fully caught up with his music yet. He was The king of punk funk and duke of Fun Wave. He set the tone that many followed and some ripped him off. He blended rock, funk, new wave and rock.
To create some of the greatest music ever made. He had many hits. And one of his big ones Mary Jane, the greatest song ever with a flute as a major instrument in it.

Outstanding! Mixed Funk, pop and punk and created PUNK-FUNK. Great live shows and a real innovator in the industry. Still copied and sampled by many today. The King of Punk-Funk Rick James.

21Phil Collen

SINGER, PIANO, DRUMMES

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22Steven Tyler

23Rick Allen

24Eminem

Eminem is by far the best rapper in the world. He can raper to the rhythm of his music that he writes. I don't think he should be just at this spot on the chart he should higher up in the chart. At least the number 5 because he is an awesome rapper my most favourite.

25Steve Clark

26Axl Rose

This list has no credibility, Axl's the best!

27Jimi Hendrix

Best guitar player of all time a genius he could play guitar left handed right handed wonky handed and with his very easily he has great stage presence and emotion.

28Joe Hisaishi

His music is amazingly beautiful and nostalgic. He should be recognized as one of the most talented and greatest composers of all time especially when looking at his work with famous movie director Hayao Miyazaki and his work with Ghibli Studios. Songs like "Summer" and movie OSTs like "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" from the Miyazaki movie "Castle in the Sky" are incredible works of art that should be appreciated by the world.

His compositions are so emotionally charged, it makes me shed a tear... Or cry a river. The pieces in Studio Ghibli are breathtakingly beautiful. Each song he composes conveys a message.

29Bob Marley

30Jimmy The Rev Sullivan

31Mark Evans

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32Bjork

33Johann Sebastian Bach

34Eric Clapton

He's one six grammys he deserves to be one the top ten great guitar player.

35Ennio Morricone

He's a great musician, please listen to his soundtracks and feel the emotions of great music (all western songs nowadays are good only because of him). He should be at least in the top ten.

36Ryuichi Sakamoto

37Miley Cyrus

38Elton John

39Miles Davis

40Louis Armstrong

41Frederic Chopin

42Richard Strauss

43Sarah Geronimo

44Jack Johnson

45Bun E. Carlos

46Quincy Jones

47Ray Charles

48Chick Corea

49Frank Zappa

Great guitarist great singer one of a kind coll names.

50Sting

51David Foster

52Claude Debussy

53Sergei Rachmaninoff

54Prince

55Stevie Wonder

56David Bowie

57Herbie Hancock

58Chuck Berry

59Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

60Maurice Ravel

61Erik Satie

62Yann Tiersen

63John Williams

64Scott Joplin

65Jeff Beck

66Camille Saint-Saens

67Vangelis

68Eddie Van Halen

Fast crazy awesome fantastic guitar player listen to eruption

69Johnny Cash

70Mick Jagger

71Billy Idol

72Ritchie Valens

73Tom Chaplin

74Questlove

75Mariah Carey

76James Taylor

77James Brown

78Tupac

79Jay-Z

80Raffi

81Scatman John

82Yoshiki Hayashi

83George Linch

Great great guitarist, Dokken wouldn't have been the same without him, I think. Great riffs and great melodic lines, with chords of 5 and 5bemolle, vote him!

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84Chester Bennington

85Amy Lee

86Rhydian

87Josh Groban

88Sarah Brightman

89Frank Sinatra

90Cliff Burton

91Randy Rhoads

92Zacky Vengeance

93Elliott Smith

94Dave Dobbyn

Just the best

95B.B. King

Best blues guitarist well respested

96Jimmy Page

Lengendary guitarist in a great band.

97James Cotton

Great harmonica player

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