The Ultimate Rock Icon.

[allan harper]

Well I fucking do. Alex Turner? A rock Icon so iconic that I had to look him up? Liam Gallagher? Liam?? I wouldn't even put Noel on the list but at least he would be nearer to it. Bowie? Rock? Fucking hell.

No place for Roger Daltrey? Keith Richards? Lemmy? Ozzy? Plant? Gillan? Jim Morrison?

Yes there was room for all those nearly-rans but they got knocked out in the early rounds, just goes to show the younger generation don't regard the oldies as icons anymore.

Apart from Bowie, who is and was never a rock icon, and Lennon who was more of a pop one. Way to go readers. And Allan.

 

[BimboBob]

Re: The Ultimate Rock Icon.

Yes there was room for all those nearly-rans but they got knocked out in the early rounds, just goes to show the younger generation don't regard the oldies as icons anymore.

Apart from Bowie, who is and was never a rock icon, and Lennon who was more of a pop one. Way to go readers. And Allan.

Don't put yourself down like that mate. You were beaten by a better man. Just accept that fact and move on.

 

[BTH]

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YOU ARE ALL HOMOPHOBES!!!

I'm not, I can assure you. Gay or not, Freddie Mercury and Queen were not as good as some people seem to believe.

Shit band, shit songs.

Just my opinion.

Shit opinion.

-- Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:28 pm --

Reading this it's pretty clear to me that some people aren't sure what a rock icon is and think this thread is about their favourite singer/band etc. Many of the biggest bands and performers from the '60s are icons; they transcended the music, their images and influence were felt far beyond it and into the wider arts, the media, the public psyche and the then-fledgling underground.

Crossing boundaries, photographers like David Bailey and Terence Donovan added to the wealth of imagery in the magazines and newspapers of the day, thus creating genuine iconography whilst making household names for themselves, no more so than the Beatles, the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger in particular), Bob Dylan and, of course, Elvis. There are hundreds of iconic images of these performers, imprinted into the public's memory bank.

Later in the decade, when rock was really born, artistically things exploded here and in America: Cream, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead all came with their own imagery, little of it from record company A&R men and hand-outs, but much of it created by a handful of illustrators/designers here (particularly the Australian, Martin Sharp) and from the East and West Coasts of America like Wes Wilson, Alton Kelly, Stanley Mouse and Rick Griffin on behalf of key venues.

These were the people who created the original iconography; many of the images in your mind are probably the ones they created. I can't deny that relative late-comers like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain were icons to their generation but they simply don't carry the gravitas that the old school rock stars did and still do. If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the prices some of this paraphernalia garners.

In the meantime, if you want to know more about bona fide rock iconography, order yourself a copy of the bible on these things: the AOR...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Rock-Po...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342560276&sr=1-1

You'll thank me for it.

Bloody hell, someone who knows what they are talking about.

Why, thank you!

 

[Bill Walker]

Re: The Ultimate Rock Icon.

No. Definitely Hendrix.

Wild, dangerous, gifted, supremely talented and dead at a very young age.

ICONIC:

yeah him or Syd Barret (or Lennon)

 

[leithblue]

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If those 4 are regarded as the ultimate rock icons, it must be a shite time to be young.

 

[allan harper]

Apart from Bowie, who is and was never a rock icon, and Lennon who was more of a pop one. Way to go readers. And Allan.

Don't put yourself down like that mate. You were beaten by a better man. Just accept that fact and move on.

That's one of the gayest posts I've seen on here, I new the semi final list would upset one or two people but didn't think the village people fan club would spout out about it.

 

[Seosa]

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Don't put yourself down like that mate. You were beaten by a better man. Just accept that fact and move on.

That's one of the gayest posts I've seen on here, I new the semi final list would upset one or two people but didn't think the village people fan club would spout out about it.

Totally agree, absolutely shit brand of humour that people use when they know they've been mugged off.

 

[ChrisNUFC]

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(Best Geordie Rock Icon)

Rest of the world Got to be Hendrix for me!

 

[allan harper]

Don't put yourself down like that mate. You were beaten by a better man. Just accept that fact and move on.

That's one of the gayest posts I've seen on here, I new the semi final list would upset one or two people but didn't think the village people fan club would spout out about it.

Totally agree, absolutely shit brand of humour that people use when they know they've been mugged off.

Some people are too stuck up their own arses to realise someone is taking the piss, never-mind though I'm a ****.

 

[Seosa]

Re: The Ultimate Rock Icon.

That's one of the gayest posts I've seen on here, I new the semi final list would upset one or two people but didn't think the village people fan club would spout out about it.

Totally agree, absolutely shit brand of humour that people use when they know they've been mugged off.

Some people are too stuck up their own arses to realise someone is taking the piss, never-mind though I'm a ****.