Top 5 living Rock Icons

[Chicopee John]

@the-gipper said:

With so many deaths having happened, who are the Top 5 living Rock n Roll Icons? (Individuals, not acts):

One list:

Chuck Berry

Bob Dylan

Paul McCartney

Mick Jagger

And I can't decide between Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Brian Wilson

Follow up 5:

Springsteen

Page/Plant

Elton John

Neil Young

Paul Simon

Wow, Gipper, a great question / Survey

Of course, what do you define as 'Rock'

FWIW, I am trying to add to your list. I am not saying I don't agree with your names. However there will probably be 50 worthy candidates for the Top 10

To me the most iconic R&Rer has to be Mick Jagger. Hands down.

In no particular order (and some quick brainstorming):

Smokey Robinson

Jerry Lee Lewis

Van Morrison

Greg Allman

Billy Joel

[The Cysko Kid]

No love for jimmy page?

[Axe]

Mick

Iommi

Ozzy

EVH

Angus

Plant or Page

[Tour2ma]

Celebrate the living.... good idea...

@chicopee-john said:

FWIW, I am trying to add to your list. I am not saying I don't agree with your names. However there will probably be 50 worthy candidates for the Top 10

Pretty much my usual count...

Let's see...

1. Mick...
2. Peter Gabriel
3. Rick Ray Davies
4. Neil Young
5. Joe Walsh

[One Post]

@browns149 said:

Lemmy is not alive

Ya that's right what was I thinking?

[The Gipper]

One Post From the Truth said:

Eddie Van Halen

James Hetfield

Lemmy Kilmister

Sting

Steve Adler... I met him one day he's cool that's why he's on my list.

How can someone be a icon if a lot of us have never heard of them? As is the case with half of these guys. (Besides...isn't this Lemmy guy among The Departed?)

[The Gipper]

@the-cysko-kid said:

No love for jimmy page?

I put Page and Plant together in my second 5.

[The Gipper]

I think the point of this is to list who the greatest living Rock Icons are.....not who you may like the best.

I don't know who James Hetfield is. Or Rick Davies. While I may be a bit out of touch with certain genres of music....to be an icon, I think you have to have your name known by the general public pretty much.

[Westside Steve]

I think Rick Davies is the Supertramp guy. I don't think they're iconic but they are important. Hetfield is Metallica, who I would place closer to the icons list.

WSS

[The Gipper]

@westside-steve said:

I think Rick Davies is the Supertramp guy. I don't think they're iconic but they are important. Hetfield is Metallica, who I would place closer to the icons list.

WSS

Like I said, the fact that you have to explain who they are takes them out of Icon status...imo.

I mean....if you want a metal hair band icon....the guy from Whitesnake....David Copperhead/Cloverfield or whatever would be more iconic.

[Westside Steve]

No, I think iconic is across the board and transgenerational. I have my own favorites but don't consider them to be iconic in the sense that Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley or the Beatles or Frank Sinatra are icons.

WSS

[Mudfly]

@tour2ma said:

1. Rick Davies

Typo?.....possibly you mean Ray Davies?....

@the-gipper said:

I think the point of this is to list who the greatest living Rock Icons are.....not who you may like the best.

I don't know who James Hetfield is. Or Rick Davies. While I may be a bit out of touch with certain genres of music....to be an icon, I think you have to have your name known by the general public pretty much.

Id say it's generational to a point......though, I agree that the top 5 should be known by just about everyone.....

Mine are....

1) McCartney - Ringo

2) Jagger - Richards

3) Page - Plant

4) Clapton

5) Elton John

Runners up: Alice Cooper, Prince, Sting, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Madonna, Springsteen, David Gilmore, Townsend and Daltrey are probably all in the conversation too....

[Chicopee John]

I find it interesting that neither Carlos Santana nor Rod Stewart have been mentioned, including my list.

[Mudfly]

@chicopee-john said:

I find it interesting that neither Carlos Santana nor Rod Stewart have been mentioned, including my list.

I can see Santana for sure....Rod Stewart?....not as much....

[Westside Steve]

@mudfly said:

I can see Santana for sure....Rod Stewart?....not as much....

Neither one in the top 5. We are talking all time icon.

WSS

[JPPT1974]

Mick Jagger

Paul McCartney

Elton John

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys

Eric Clapton

[The Cysko Kid]

@chicopee-john said:

I find it interesting that neither Carlos Santana nor Rod Stewart have been mentioned, including my list.

I mean santana has done a lot but I'm not sure either qualify as icon status

[The Cysko Kid]

Obviously I would have put bowie here a few months ago

[The Cysko Kid]

Jagger/Richards

Plant/page

McCartney

Springsteen

And then in my opinion your have to move forward to the next generation to find another living rock ICON

someone like James Hetfield or Dave Grohl maybe.

[The Gipper]

I dunno....if they haven't done the halftime of the Super Bowl can they qualify as an icon.....