Most Talented Male Singer

Bar · 23 May 2006 at 13:46

Just interested in your opinions on this one.

Just listening to Queens - Barcelona and a thought struck me. As a singer does anyone else come near Freddie Mercury and on a larger picture Queen when it comes to crossing so many different styles of music succesfully?

Thoughts?

Hopefully the answers will give me new areas to look into music wise.

Bar · 23 May 2006 at 13:57

Did Pavarotti cross as many genres as Freddie Mercury though?

Bar · 25 May 2006 at 08:06

Seems that quite a few agree with me on the point of Freddie Mercury and Queen - it was actually listening to Barcelona that prompted this thread.

On the point of Robbie Williams - saw him at Glastonbury in 98 (might be 97 or 99) I think and he was one of the best acts that whole weekend. Reminds me of Freddies ability to get the crowd worked up.

One final point on Queen though - when looking at concert videos I cannot think of any other act who has the whole crowd involved quite so much. Yes a lot of bands get the first so many rows involved. But Queen had the stadium floor AND all the seating areas responding and getting involved.