The greatest performer?

TheMilkyPirate

The greatest performer of all time, the charisma king..

Who in your opinion?

For me: Elvis.

Doesn't have to be musically related

Sunnyisland

BoBo the clown.


http://www.google.ie/search?q=bobo+the+clown&rlz=1T4NDKB_enIE523IE524&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=HqIOUv-EJMXm7AaSm4CwCw&ved=0CDgQsAQ

oldyouth

Crystal Swing

lennyloulou

100% agree Elvis. He paved the way for all !
After that Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen

kraggy

Freddie Mercury.

The presence.

That is all.

O-Deazy

Daniel O'Donnell!

"Are you ready? No, I mean are you really ready? Ah 1, Ah 2, Ah 1,2,3,4. By the rivers of Babylon...."

Top Drawer Entertainment!

wazky

Daniel O'Donnell


Edit: Seems he was already mentioned, popular boy.

pharmaton

kraggy wrote: »

Freddie Mercury.

The presence.

That is all.

He was the Jesus of music Tm

Sunnyisland

Berti ahearn :-)

beertons

Mick Jagger.

Pang

Liberace baby!

markomuscle

Jimmy Buckley

Sir Osis of Liver.

Brendan Kilkenny.

Ace Attorney

kraggy wrote: »

Freddie Mercury.

Have to agree with freddie mercury he was amazing, was watching him on sky tv their concert in budapest. he had great charisma and even when he was dying with aids he continued to make songs and struggled to record his last song these are the days of our lives while very very sick. A truly fantastic performer!

stefan idiot jones

My Missus.....ahem.

kraggy

pharmaton wrote: »

He was the Jesus of music Tm

®IDE.

And I'm male.

Howard Juneau

oldyouth wrote: »

Crystal Swing

You'd have to smoking some form of crystal to come up with that shower!

LETHAL LADY

Pavarotti was fairly impressive in his heyday.

Osmosis Jones

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

My Missus.....ahem.

I agree

Duggy747

Freddie Mercury, would have loved to have been at Queen's concert in Wembley.

amdublin

Elvis
Bruce
Freddie

Sunglasses Ron

Pat Mustard I should think.

123balltv

Tina Turner

Saw her in 02 Dublin 2009 amazing to see people of all ages ranging
from teenagers, middle aged folk etc all gather to see the Queen of rock

wretcheddomain

Based on this performance alone, it has to be Linda Martin:

Just the music you need to finish your Friday night!

123balltv

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Based on this performance alone, it has to be Linda Martin:

Just the music you need to finish your Friday night!

Never heard of her

Sir Osis of Liver.

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Based on this performance alone, it has to be Linda Martin:

Just the music you need to finish your Friday night!

FFS
What in the name of Jonny Logans hairy arse was that?

clappyhappy

Has to be Freddie Mercury. He was, is and probably will always be the greatest showman ever.

Too Tough To Die

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS too everyone would be clamouring to put his name forward on this thread.

fro9etb8j5qsl2

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Based on this performance alone, it has to be Linda Martin:

Jaysus some of those moves haven't seen the light of day since the 70s :eek: She's like a desperate auld divorcee dancing round her handbag in the over 50s niteclub....

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS.

We should be so lucky....

Ace Attorney

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS too everyone would be clamouring to put his name forward on this thread.

Nope, bono is shyte

wretcheddomain

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS too everyone would be clamouring to put his name forward on this thread.

He's so odious and pretentious that he'd claim he was a martyr for the poor.

Too Tough To Die

wretcheddomain wrote: »

He's so odious and pretentious that he'd claim he was a martyr for the poor.

Let's judge him on what he has done, shall we? Saved millions of Africans, done so much in the fight against AIDS that if Freddie Mercury was just setting out in his career at the turn of the century there is a good chance he'd have a much longer career, and life, thanks to people like Bono.

jimmycrackcorm

Jesus


Mods please move to the atheist forum to make this more entertaining than in AH

TheIrishGrover

C'mon, it's GOTTA be Freddie. Now I don't have the hate that many do for Bono. I've seen U2 a couple of times and they put on a good show.

But seriously..............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038

Too Tough To Die

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

C'mon, it's GOTTA be Freddie. Now I don't have the hate that many do for Bono. I've seen U2 a couple of times and they put on a good show.

But seriously..............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038

An amazing performer no doubt, but death does a lot to add to a legend. Similar with Cobain and Tupac. Axl Rose was a better performer than Mercury around that time, for what it's worth, but unlike Mercury, he's had the misfortune of fading into (semi) obscurity.

TheIrishGrover

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

An amazing performer no doubt, but death does a lot to add to a legend. Similar with Cobain and Tupac. Axl Rose was a better performer than Mercury around that time, for what it's worth, but unlike Mercury, he's had the misfortune of fading into (semi) obscurity.

Nope. Yer just wrong

Sunglasses Ron

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Let's judge him on what he has done, shall we? Saved millions of Africans, done so much in the fight against AIDS that if Freddie Mercury was just setting out in his career at the turn of the century there is a good chance he'd have a much longer career, and life, thanks to people like Bono.

Bono invented retro viral drugs?

He has done much to increase their availability, granted, but....what?!?

Too Tough To Die

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

Bono invented retro viral drugs?

He has done much to increase their availability, granted, but....what?!?

There ya go, good man.

endacl

You're all wrong. Of course.

Ace Attorney

Eduard Khil

kraggy

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS too everyone would be clamouring to put his name forward on this thread.

If Bono could:

1. Write meaningful lyrics as opposed to bunches of words that happen to rhyme

2. Have a bit of humility

3. Have a bit of presence all over the stage as opposed to standing in one spot, stomping a foot á la iPod commercial

4. Just for once, stop clapping them hands so no more kids in Africa keep dying and dying.,,

Then he'd be ok.

beertons

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Saved millions of Africans

Name one.

Festy

Big Tom by a country mile

Too Tough To Die

kraggy wrote: »

If Bono could:

1. Write meaningful lyrics as opposed to bunches of words that happen to rhyme

2. Have a bit of humility

3. Have a bit of presence all over the stage as opposed to standing in one spot, stomping a foot á la iPod commercial

4. Just for once, stop clapping them hands so no more kids in Africa keep dying and dying.,,

Then he'd be ok.

If Bono could sell more tickets than any frontman in the history of music. Oh wait...

Littlehorny

Love Freddy myself but just speaking from my own age group Michael Jackson and Madonna at the peak of their powers in the late 80s and early 90s were just magical performers in their concerts. They drove crowds wild with their stage shows, honourable mentions go to Paul Mc Cartney, Mick Jagger, Prince and Pink.

The Backwards Man

Greatest performer of all time?

There can be only one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRa4X07jdE

pharmaton

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

I'm sure if Bono was gay and died of AIDS too everyone would be clamouring to put his name forward on this thread.

Bohemian rhapsody charted the year I was born so Queen music was fairly influential as I was growing up, I was ten when live aid aired and I made it my business to catch all of it, I remember Freddie when he was in his prime. Ironically I remember U2s performance at live aid too and that's right up there, probably Bono at his best but Freddie's death really affected me, it affected a lot of people and not just because of the nature of his death but because of how he lived right up until he died and how he practically composed his own requiem before he left.
There are some other great performers out there and still going strong but few have had the opportunity to have such impact on so many. It was an era.

Karl Stein

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

My Missus.....ahem.

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

I agree

+ 2

kraggy

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

If Bono could sell more tickets than any frontman in the history of music. Oh wait...

And if by chance, we could all be literate adults and discuss the topic, we'd agree that the topic is about who the best frontman is instead of who sold more dates or records.

It's called "subjective discussion about individuals" versus bands, money and ego.

U2 is a company, group and collection of people. Not a single performer.

Even if he may think it's all about him, he's way down the list in terms of frontmen/performers.

(I admire their success as a group, but give me Feddie any day).

Vito Corleone

Ian Curtis.

Too Tough To Die

kraggy wrote: »

And if by chance, we could all be literate adults and discuss the topic, we'd agree that the topic is about who the best frontman is instead of who sold more dates or records.

It's called "subjective discussion about individuals" versus bands, money and ego.

U2 is a company, group and collection of people. Not a single performer.

Even if he may think it's all about him, he's way down the list in terms of frontmen/performers.

(I admire their success as a group, but give me Feddie any day).

Go on then, i could do with a laugh. Name one band in which the frontman wasn't the main attraction (ticket seller).