Top 10 Most Artistic Album Covers
The Velvet Underground And Nico
The Rolling Stones - Loveyoulive
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
David Bowie - Diamond dogs
Nirvana in utero
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
Van Halen - 1984
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Aretha Franklin Named Greatest Singer Of Rock Era
Aretha Franklin has been named the greatest singer of the rock era in a new Rolling Stone poll.
The Queen of Soul topped the list ahead of Ray Charles at No. 2, Elvis Presley at No. 3, Sam Cooke at No. 4 and John Lennon at No. 5.
The top 100 list will be published on magazine’s December issue.The listed was selected by 179 musicians, producers and experts,including Keith Richards of Rolling Stones, James Hetfield of Metallica, David Crosby, Yusuf Islam,Iggy Pop and Mary J. Blige. Voters submitted their top 20 choices, and an accounting firm tabulated the results.
Besides 66 years old Franklin, the only other living people in the top 10 were Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder.
The top 10 is as follows:
1. Aretha Franklin
2. Ray Charles
3. Elvis Presley
4. Sam Cooke
5. John Lennon
6. Marvin Gaye
7. Bob Dylan
8. Otis Redding
9. Stevie Wonder
10. James Brown
What ’s your idea about this list?
10 Most Tragic & Untimely Deaths in Rock and Roll History
On the night of 8 December 1980, Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman outside the musician’s New York apartment. Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman earlier that same night.
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 at his home Graceland in Memphis.His girlfriend at the time, Ginger Alden, was asleep in his bed when he died. It was she who discovered the body.
On April 8, 1994, Cobain’s body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain’s ear, Smith reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin.The coroner’s report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.
Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London.He had spent the later part of the evening before at a party and was picked up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel.
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild, and freak out an’ do anything they wanna do.”
Joplin died on October 4, 1970 in Los Angeles, California.John Cook, one of her band members, became alarmed when she didn’t show up for the recording session and after unsuccessfully trying to reach her by telephone, he went to the hotel, broke down the door and found her dead.
Morrison died on July 3, 1971, aged 27.He was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson.
“Death makes angels of us all, and gives us wings, where we had shoulders, smooth as raven’s, claws”
Mercury died on 24 November 1991 at the age of 45 in his Kensington home.
He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981.His final words to his son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life.”
Cline died in a plane crash in March 5, 1963, in a forest just outside of Camden, Tennessee, only 90 miles from the destination.
Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of The Bar-Kays were killed when his chartered Beechcraft plane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967.
