| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal 14:22 - Jun 4 with 4267 views | GlasgowBlue |
Make your choice.
1. David Bowie
2. Marvin Gaye
The first two were easy. I’m struggling between Prince and John Lennon.
Ok. 3. John Lennon [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 14:23]
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:33 - Jun 4 with 3155 views | Keno |
1, Freddie Mercury
2, Karen Carpenter
3, Sam Cooke |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:34 - Jun 4 with 3159 views | Dubtractor |
I'll be controversial and say no one.
Lots of great dead artists, but no guarantee that they would create new music to the same standard/vibrancy, and I'd rather enjoy the old stuff by them and new stuff by newer artists! |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:42 - Jun 4 with 3138 views | BlueBadger |
Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Kirsty McColl.
Honourable mentions:
Lal Waterson, Phil Lynott, Kurt Cobain, Richey Edwards, Freddie Mercury, Amy Winehouse, ODB.
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:44 - Jun 4 with 3129 views | hoppy |
Of the two you're considering for 3. I would say Prince personally - for the diversity of his music. |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:49 - Jun 4 with 3114 views | BlueBadger |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:34 - Jun 4 by Dubtractor |
I'll be controversial and say no one.
Lots of great dead artists, but no guarantee that they would create new music to the same standard/vibrancy, and I'd rather enjoy the old stuff by them and new stuff by newer artists! |
My 3 were pretty much at the top of their game when they went with more to offer, hence why I went for them. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:08 - Jun 4 with 3063 views | GlasgowBlue |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:44 - Jun 4 by hoppy |
Of the two you're considering for 3. I would say Prince personally - for the diversity of his music. |
I went Lennon because a Prince left behind a massive body of work in his catalogue whereas Lennon went into retirement 5 years after the Beatles split and was shot when he came out of retirement. [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 15:09]
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:12 - Jun 4 with 3056 views | cressi |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:49 - Jun 4 by BlueBadger |
My 3 were pretty much at the top of their game when they went with more to offer, hence why I went for them. |
1, F Mercury
2, R Orbison
3, J Cash |  | | |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:12 - Jun 4 with 3054 views | Meadowlark |
Rory Gallagher
Sandy Denny
John Lennon |  | | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:19 - Jun 4 with 3035 views | BlueBadger |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:12 - Jun 4 by Meadowlark |
Rory Gallagher
Sandy Denny
John Lennon |
Uppie for the divine Sandy. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:34 - Jun 4 with 3017 views | urbanblue |
1. Serge Gainsbourg
2. Harry Nilsson
3. David Bowie
I thought about putting Lennon at number 3, but he and Nilsson were continually on the p1ss together. Along with Serge they'd probably all be permanently drunk! So it's Bowie to keep things organised and nurture the genius in the other two. [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 15:43]
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:37 - Jun 4 with 3009 views | syntaxerror |
Can I say Mozart?
Very interested to see what he would do with modern instruments...
and then Jimi and Kurt |  | | |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:41 - Jun 4 with 3004 views | Radlett_blue |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 14:34 - Jun 4 by Dubtractor |
I'll be controversial and say no one.
Lots of great dead artists, but no guarantee that they would create new music to the same standard/vibrancy, and I'd rather enjoy the old stuff by them and new stuff by newer artists! |
Indeed. Hardly any artists have a period of good creativity which lasts for more than 10 years.
Would have been interesting to see how Buddy Holly's music might have developed. |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:43 - Jun 4 with 2998 views | Ftnfwest |
Buddy Holly, Ian Curtis, Hendrix |  | | |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:58 - Jun 4 with 2958 views | WeWereZombies |
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Buckley (take Dubtractor's point but we have just that one immaculate album from Jeff and a handful of uncompleted recordings and outakes)
Buddy Holly |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:00 - Jun 4 with 2954 views | BlueBadger |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:41 - Jun 4 by Radlett_blue |
Indeed. Hardly any artists have a period of good creativity which lasts for more than 10 years.
Would have been interesting to see how Buddy Holly's music might have developed. |
Oh yeah. The rare few like Nick Cave, PJ Harvey and Tom Waits, for example, who've been pretty solid through their careers really stand out. Even then though, these ones often spend long periods dormant. Waits hasn't made a new studio album in nearly ten years.
And cave was a bit sub-par in the stuff he recorded immediately before Grinderman, 'Nocturama' in particular has not aged well. [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 16:06]
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:02 - Jun 4 with 2947 views | uefacup81 |
I'd say Freddie Mercury, but on the proviso that the five albums are with Queen rather than solo efforts.
Mr Bad Guy flopped so badly that CBS released Freddie from the rest of his multi-album deal with them. |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:05 - Jun 4 with 2938 views | BlueBadger |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:02 - Jun 4 by uefacup81 |
I'd say Freddie Mercury, but on the proviso that the five albums are with Queen rather than solo efforts.
Mr Bad Guy flopped so badly that CBS released Freddie from the rest of his multi-album deal with them. |
I dunno 'Made in Heaven' was pretty poor, although that said, 'Innuendo' is as good as anything from their late 70's peak. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:14 - Jun 4 with 2921 views | tractordownsouth |
Lennon, Winehouse and Mercury |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:30 - Jun 4 with 2905 views | positivity |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 15:58 - Jun 4 by WeWereZombies |
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Buckley (take Dubtractor's point but we have just that one immaculate album from Jeff and a handful of uncompleted recordings and outakes)
Buddy Holly |
definitely jeff buckley, so much potential
kurt cobain would be interesting, to see where he went with a bit of mellowing
adam yauch | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:33 - Jun 4 with 2894 views | GlasgowBlue |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:00 - Jun 4 by BlueBadger |
Oh yeah. The rare few like Nick Cave, PJ Harvey and Tom Waits, for example, who've been pretty solid through their careers really stand out. Even then though, these ones often spend long periods dormant. Waits hasn't made a new studio album in nearly ten years.
And cave was a bit sub-par in the stuff he recorded immediately before Grinderman, 'Nocturama' in particular has not aged well. [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 16:06]
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Speaking of a consistent run of albums and then nothing, I give you Billy Joel.
Other than a classical album in 2001, nothing since 1993's River of Dreams.
Although obviously he's not dead and doesn't fit in this thread. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:35 - Jun 4 with 2884 views | Swansea_Blue |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:33 - Jun 4 by GlasgowBlue |
Speaking of a consistent run of albums and then nothing, I give you Billy Joel.
Other than a classical album in 2001, nothing since 1993's River of Dreams.
Although obviously he's not dead and doesn't fit in this thread. |
Many people have a little bit of success and do nothing. Like me. Or Paul Lambert. |  |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 17:14 - Jun 4 with 2844 views | uefacup81 |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:05 - Jun 4 by BlueBadger |
I dunno 'Made in Heaven' was pretty poor, although that said, 'Innuendo' is as good as anything from their late 70's peak. |
I'd give Made in Heaven a free hit owing to the circumstances - a mixture of hurried original pieces, and re-done versions of fragments, solo tracks, and stuff not deemed good enough for previous albums.
If you discount Hot Space (and even that still had something going for it) the majority of their studio work under 'normal circumstances' was pretty darned solid. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 17:24 - Jun 4 with 2835 views | Swansea_Blue |
Bon Scott with AC/DC
Scott Weiland with the Stone Temple Pilots
Struggling for a third, but possibly John Bonham with Led Zep
Obviously they'd need their band members to be transported back in time too! | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 17:27 - Jun 4 with 2829 views | GlasgowBlue |
| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 16:05 - Jun 4 by BlueBadger |
I dunno 'Made in Heaven' was pretty poor, although that said, 'Innuendo' is as good as anything from their late 70's peak. |
I liked Made In Heaven. It beefed up a few of the insipid tracks from Mr Bad Guy. Stands up alongside The Miracle but obviously pales against Innuendo. | |
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| You can bring back 3 dead Rock Stars on a 5 album deal on 17:35 - Jun 4 with 2825 views | Mullet |
Chris Cornell
Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix |  |
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