Who's the best front man, or woman, of all time?

Neill

I was watching some archive stuff of the Faces from the early 70's and thinking apart from what a great live band, what a front man Rod Stewart was in those days. He had it all, the voice, the look, the moves.  But the best of all time?  I reckon Gene Vincent was probably the best there's ever been, though I suspect not everyone will agree..?    

DiscoStu

Freddie Mercury

ICBM

Man - Jim Morrison

Woman - Debbie Harry

vasselmeyer

+1 for Freddie. One of a kind.

digitalscream

The test for this is, "Could they pull off what Freddie did at Live Aid?".

The answer, for anyone I can think of other than Freddie, is "no".

Alvin

Purely on charisma rather than singing (as that really should be a different thing) .
 
  Bon Scott .

  And i imagine a lot of people would say Liam Gallagher which i don't get as he has zero stage presence for me , looking like you want a punch up isn't good .

Limehouse_Blues

+1 for Mr Mercury. In a league of his own

stickyfiddle

Freddie, mid-80's
Bono, early-90's
Michael Stipe and Prince, pretty much always

Rocker

Phil Lynott, Cliff Richard, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, Debbie Harry,,,,,,,,,,

TimmyO

Close the thread before any more people embarrass themselves by saying something other than Freddie 

Jez6345789

Having seen Freddie in his hey day he was a hard act to follow, charisma and stage presence was amazing. 
I think Bruce Springsteen in the early days was great but later it was a bit more cliched. 

scrumhalf

Alex Harvey
Mark E Smith
Rory Gallagher

not_the_dj

Carol Decker

Gassage

Drew Vernon.

ourmaninthenorth

John Fogerty.

Legionreturns

I'd agree with Freddie...

Personally I really like the way Eddie Vedder gets pissed throughout the evening but still has banter... But I know he's not everyone's cuppa

Danny1969

I think that Live Aid set from Queen pretty much proved Mercury was the best front man ever .... I've certainly seen nothing to top it. 

Dominic

Freddie
 Jagger
 Rod Stewart
 Maybe Chrissie Hynde

VimFuego

agree with freddie, but I'll also throw in Elvis to the mix.

Jalapeno

Other than Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett you mean

Yes, Freddie !

snakemanStoo

David Bowie
Freddie
Bruce Dickinson