Origin: London, England

Decades: 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

Rod Stewart may have began his career as a respected singer, yet that respect eroded as he got older, as he became more concerned with stardom than music. While he has recorded some terrible albums -- and he would admit that freely -- Stewart was once rock & roll's best interpretive singer as well as an accomplished songwriter, creating a raw combination of folk, rock, blues, and country that sounded like no other folk-rock or country-rock. Instead of finding the folk in rock, he found how folk rocked like ... Read More

Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Small Faces, Sam & Dave and Smokey Robinson

Kiss, Michael Bolton, Kim Carnes, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Osborne and Robert Palmer