Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time

It feels comprehensive, but there are plenty of gaps (it's a list). Still, it's interesting, mostly because for some of the folks listed other vocalists wrote the accompanying blurbs, offering insights in both directions. Like Iggy Pop (#75) on James Brown (#10): And there was that scream. It was like an inner voice. It sounded like an assertion of rights of primitive man: "I am alive, and I can do things." He used to describe his dancing as "African nerve control." He had a point ... He was ...

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