Who Do You Think Has The Best Classic Rock Voice?

Pepper said:
I usually hear classic rock described as album rock played on FM stations from the mid sixties to eighties. Elvis is classic, but not classic rock.
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But he's called the King of Rock, though. But I agree, classic rock is not the same as rock. Not to me. Elvis was rock & roll, though, right? And rock & roll is classic. But I don't think of most of the music after 1965 as rock music. There were too many sub-genres. Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, ELO, Ram Jam, The Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac; they were all so different.

For Rock, I like Brian Johnson's voice. Here he is with AC/DC

 
All the above and Rod Stewart
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Aunt Bea said:
What is classic rock? :unsure:
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I'm hard core Classic Rock and lived during that period, arguably at the most important region of that culture. Classic Rock, CR, is a term created during the 1980s by FM AOR radio stations for the music period that mostly preceded it, mid 60s to late 70s. Music that moved away from earlier Rock n' Roll, soul rock, and various AM pop music formats. During that period, enthusiasts just referred to it as Rock. Though much was blues rock and hard rock oriented, CR has always included a broad range of styles. The late 60s early 70s was also the core period of the massive Counterculture Revolution and the Viet Nam War that greatly fractured USA society from what it had been. After hated Disco rose in 1975, Rock itself increasingly splintered with some genres considered acceptable and others not that resulted during the 80s in some FM radio stations more narrowly focused on say just Punk, or just hard Metal, or Lite Rock, etc.

By the 1980s, Rock had lost its overwhelming dominance with young people as new genres of music were increasing, especially with youngest new adults, so FM AOR radio needed a term to differentiate their music. Additionally MTV rose that tried to redefine in disliked Hollywood and older media terms what Rock was about.

As to the OP question, there was another like thread in recent months. IMO such GOAT questions news media endlessly blabbers over are misplaced unless a question is rather posed "some of the best voices" without nauseating discussion trying to argue greatest comparing the several very different styles, oranges and apples.
 
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