• Best ever male vocalist.

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 10:53 pm**

I'm a massive U2 fan, but when it comes to male vocals, Freddie Mercury and Adam Lambert pretty much have it all.

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 10:59 pm**

John Lee Hooker.....Marvin Gaye...Jagger...Bob Dylan to name a few.

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:01 pm**

Mr Subjective.

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:07 pm**

Jeff Buckley

https://youtu.be/XjO4IenAyUw

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:08 pm**

Matt Monro.

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:08 pm**

The one and only Scatman John* (Rest In Peace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8

*End of thread

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:23 pm**

Andrea Bocelli
Matt Monro
Colm Wilkinson

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:37 pm**

Jerry Butler

Posted: **Sun May 03, 2020 11:42 pm**

Nat King Cole - end of

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:02 am**

Assuming we are talking about singers who front bands etc rather than opera singers and such like.

Freddie had such range and power and it is hard to look past him but one I do like and think has a very good voice is Patrick Monaghan (lead singer of Train).

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:08 am**

Rock band frontman, Freddie is untouchable. I’ve never seen anybody control the crowd like he could. Then he had the voice and the songs to make the package complete.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:08 am**

Roy Orbison is up there somewhere.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:15 am**

Vino blanco wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 12:08 am
Roy Orbison is up there somewhere.

He's definitely up there.

But he's also down here, as one of the best.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:22 am**

Roy Orbison was known to have the range of octaves, but no way could he command a crowd like Freddie.
Brian May looks a tw#t, but he can certainly pick a frontman to leech off.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:29 am**

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 12:08 am
Rock band frontman, Freddie is untouchable. I’ve never seen anybody control the crowd like he could. Then he had the voice and the songs to make the package complete.

Freddy was pretty good at mimicking Mick Jagger..I'll give him that.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 12:31 am**

No Ney Never wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 12:22 am
Roy Orbison was known to have the range of octaves, but no way could he command a crowd like Freddie.
Brian May looks a tw#t, but he can certainly pick a frontman to leech off.

So what are you asking?

Folks opinion on their best male vocalist or someone who can command a crowd?

I'm going for Smokey Robbo at the moment but in half an hour that will probably change.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 1:03 am**

Big difference between a great singer and a great front man. Plenty great front men haven’t been great singers and I include Jagger in that - Oasis are a prime example. Whiny singing and not talented as vocalists but even as not much of a fan, you’ve got to concede that they did what they do very well.

Freddie Mercury, again not really my sort of music but I’ve yet to hear a singer of a band as good as he was.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 1:20 am**

best ever male vocalist...and the best is fred mercury !! do us all a favour and widen your horizons

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 1:30 am**

Leo Nucci
One of the best singers ever, sold out so many gigs over 50 year

But pop wise
Sam Cooke
Meatloaf right up there with some already mentioned.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 2:42 am**

Ben Howard

This video of him is live, it sounds like a recording.

Up there with my favourite ever artists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phktiVZqUbQ

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 3:49 am**

Roy Orbison
Justin Hayward
Paul Rodgers (Free and Bad Company)

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 4:23 am**

Sam Cooke or Nat King Cole.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 5:59 am**

In terms of the best voice, of the countless live acts I have seen, George Michael. Not my taste in music by a long way but as a singer he made it seem so effortless.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 6:28 am**

Dave Grohl....and a througly nice guy to boot.
Robert Plant
Roger Daltery
Peter Gabriel
Stevie Wonder
Joe Cocker
And Freddie

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 6:57 am**

David Bowie, anyone?

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 7:05 am**

Surely "The King" has to be in with a shout?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n0dB_nWfPA

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 7:17 am**

Paul McCartney
Gary Brooker
Frank Sinatra

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 7:43 am**

Sir Tom Jones.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:05 am**

Elvis Costello

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:11 am**

Rocky... his range of scream when a Goalkeeper was taking a GK was sublime

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:12 am**

Frankie Valli

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:14 am**

John Fogerty

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:16 am**

Freddie Mercury had probably one of the finest voices ...

From Rock to Opera he covered every thing ...

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:20 am**

Sam Cooke....for the sheer purity of his voice
Eddie Vedder.....in terms of powerfully fronting a rock band
Elvis Costello...for singularity that works
Roy Orbison...for haunting other worldliness
Jake Burns ...for ferocity

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:37 am**

Tim Booth

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 8:58 am**

Up to the back end of last year I'd always said Freddie Mercury had the greatest voice that I've ever heard live. That was until I saw Andrea Bocelli and his voice completely blew me away.
Some great shouts higher up the thread in Elvis and even Meatloaf, but the arguments for controlling a crowd can't stand up as Robbie Wiliams has people eating out of his hand and he's only a fat dancer !!

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 9:12 am**

Nat King Cole has been mentioned a couple of times and is a great shout but Paul Robeson is also up there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjzkfd3i6E

Gotta love Elvis as well though. He could sing just about anything, from rock to ballads.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 9:24 am**

Daltrey, Gabriel, Mike Scott, Chris Rea, Springsteen

Those Beatles chaps could hold a tune too

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:06 am**

Bob Dylan

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:27 am**

So many great singers already mentioned. I could change my mind every half hour as well

I'll throw in Al Green not just because he was a great singer, but also because he was pretty unique. I can't imagine anyone singing his songs coming anywhere near to sounding like The Reverend.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:34 am**

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 10:27 am
I'll throw in Al Green not just because he was a great singer, but also because he was pretty...

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:37 am**

Joey Ramone

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:42 am**

Bob Dylan....Joe Cocker.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:44 am**

Van Morrison

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:45 am**

Lennon, Harrison, Starr.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 10:57 am**

KateR wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 1:30 am
Leo Nucci
One of the best singers ever, sold out so many gigs over 50 year

Interesting choice for an operatic baritone, and probably not known to the majority on here, but I'm a little surprised that you put Nucci above many of his contemporaries in that field.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 11:00 am**

Some fantastic names on this thread. From days gone by such as Nat King Cole & Roy Orbison and the likes of Smokey Robinson.

Arguments on Freddie - the best front man for me but also the best vocalist. Absolutely incredible.

But jdrobbo mentioned the brilliant Andrea Bocelli - he's a bit special.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 11:19 am**

I'm shocked no-one's mentioned Sting in this list,so i'll correct that wrong.

Prince had charisma,and the talent to back his ego up.

Opera hard to see past Pavarotti.

Bon Scott,Chuck Berry,Kurt Cobain,Michael Hutchence,and one from left field Suggs of Madness fame,all merit a mention,not all necessarily great vocalists,but they could all put on a show and entertain a crowd.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 11:30 am**

tiger76 wrote: ↑
Mon May 04, 2020 11:19 am
I'm shocked no-one's mentioned Sting in this list,so i'll correct that wrong.

Prince had charisma,and the talent to back his ego up.

Opera hard to see past Pavarotti.

Bon Scott,Chuck Berry,Kurt Cobain,Michael Hutchence,and one from left field Suggs of Madness fame,all merit a mention,not all necessarily great vocalists,but they could all put on a show and entertain a crowd.

Always rated Sting....just his solo stuff though, very underrated.

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2020 11:31 am**

Another one for Freddie

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