If a rockstar could come back to life who would it be?

Zoolooter

I dearly miss Stuart Adamson , Big Country Live at the  BBC album is pitch perfect. My wife is a away for a month and I’m going through all this stuff.. really loud. The first Robbie Robinson album is also 10/10 with Crazy River and Broken Arrow, 

Who’s yours?

RocknRollDave

Stuart Adamson is one of the best frontmen I ever got to see live.

DrCornelius

Jimi because I think he would have carried on branching out into funk and jazz and been bloody good at it too

vasselmeyer

Stevie Ray. I'd love to hear how his playing evolved.

digitalkettle

Robertson!..and he's still alive

Good call on Stuart though!

Philly_Q

Are we talking at the height of their powers, in good health, or a straightforward resurrection at the age or state of health when they died?

If the former, Ronnie James Dio.  Tommy Bolin.  Randy Rhoads.  Bon Scott.  Cliff Burton.

Oh god, there's loads.  All those guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd.  The entire original lineup of Molly Hatchet.  David Byron.  Gary Thain.  Leslie West.  Ronnie Montrose.  James Dewar.  EVH.  Paul Kossoff.  Gary Moore.  Phil Lynott...

I'd better stop.

Philly_Q

Keith Moon.

fastonebaz

Adam.

The first guitar player. 

Kebabkid

Phil Lynott
Eddie Van Halen
Gary Moore 
Neil Peart
Freddie

Kilgore

John Lennon

guitars4you

Easy to say some obvious big names - Bowie, Prince, Elvis, Lennon and even Jimi H - But 'd pick Buddy Holly - Not because I'm his biggest fan - But 'pop music' as we now know it, that is guitar based, was only a couple of years old when Buddy was around - He created many great songs in such a sort time - Massive influence on The Beatles - It would have been great to see what more he could have come up with and how he'd have changed his own career/writing when the Brit Pop explosion arrived 

digitalscream

Keith Richards.

Pretty sure he has form for this.

bloodandtears

digitalscream said:

Keith Richards.

Pretty sure he has form for this.

came here to suggest the same!!

Whitecat

Yeah it depends what you mean by "come back" - I often think about what some of these incredibly famous/talented cats would be like if they were still alive today - playing the heritage circuit? Appearing on panel shows on TV? Probably not making records that the masses would buy, that's for sure, but people would still talk about their current work.

Freddie's a definite for me - he would be turning 77 this year, hard to believe he was only three years younger than Mick.

Of others not mentioned, I think Walter Becker was taken from us too early and I think the Steely Dan renaissance that's happened in the ensuing years since he passed would make him smile.

Neilybob

DrCornelius said:

Jimi because I think he would have carried on branching out into funk and jazz and been bloody good at it too

Him

Bod

The antithesis of rockstar really, but I really miss Tim Smith of Cardiacs.  l only discovered them after his stroke in 2008 so never got to see them live, but they're now one of my favourite bands.  I sometimes try to imagine the sort of stuff he'd be writing now...

EricTheWeary

guitars4you said:

Easy to say some obvious big names - Bowie, Prince, Elvis, Lennon and even Jimi H - But 'd pick Buddy Holly - Not because I'm his biggest fan - But 'pop music' as we now know it, that is guitar based, was only a couple of years old when Buddy was around - He created many great songs in such a sort time - Massive influence on The Beatles - It would have been great to see what more he could have come up with and how he'd have changed his own career/writing when the Brit Pop explosion arrived 

I was thinking about this last night and of the rock stars who died young who might have had the most impact on popular music had they lived longer and I thought Buddy Holly. 

Otherwise I’d probably say Terry Hall as he passed away on my birthday which seems an unfortunate association (for me)and could have made the album he had just started. Although, admittedly, he at least outlived quite a few of the others mentioned here. 

LastMantra

The only thing about the likes of Hendrix, Jim Morrison etc. is they became legends partly because they died young.

I reckon, with a bit of therapy, Kurt Cobain could still be writing good songs. Even if his voice was knackered. 

rlw

I'm just pondering a band comprising Jimi Hendris, Jack Bruce and Keith Moon.....................

DrCornelius

LastMantra said:

The only thing about the likes of Hendrix, Jim Morrison etc. is they became legends partly because they died young.

I reckon, with a bit of therapy, Kurt Cobain could still be writing good songs. Even if his voice was knackered. 

Not so sure tbh - they were both groundbreaking. Jimi reinvented rock playing and blew the (high quality competition) out of the water and Morrison to me came along and combined the beat poets approach with jazz rock and the whole wild tortured rock star cliche to a tee.

mikeyrob73

Cliff Burton for sure 
would be interesting to see the direction Metallica took had he remained undead