Top 30 Musical Acts of All Time (Classical & Rock)
Sep24
on September 24, 2014
at 2:14 pm
Posted In: Buncrana, Carndonagh, Derry, Donegal, Greencastle, L/Derry, Letterkenny, Moville, Redcastle
In 2011, Desert island Discs asked its listeners to name their 8 pieces of music, classical and rock that they would take to a desert island with them.
They named the top 100 most popular pieces of music, with the top 10 mainly classical music pieces.
They then compiled from the answers the top 100 musical acts of all time. they are as follows:-
- 1The Beatles
- 2Bob Dylan
- 3Ludwig van Beethoven
- 4Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 5Pink Floyd
- 6Johann Sebastian Bach
- 7The Rolling Stones
- 8Sir Edward Elgar
- 9Ralph Vaughan Williams
- 10Queen
- 11Led Zeppelin
- 12David Bowie
- 13Giacomo Puccini
- 14George Frideric Handel
- 15Van Morrison
- 16Bruce Springsteen
- 17Leonard Cohen
- 18Gustav Mahler
- 19Elvis Presley
- 20Simon & Garfunkel
- 21Radiohead
- 22The Smiths
- 23Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 24Frank Sinatra
- 25The Beach Boys
- 26Joni Mitchell
- 27Jimi Hendrix
- 28Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 29Franz Schubert
- 30Neil Young
The top 2 are the Beatles and Bob Dylan followed by Ludwig Van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Perhaps we could have a BeethovenFest or MozartFest in Moville.
It’s almost Pythonesque to see Franz Scubert just edging Neil Young for 19th spot and Morrisey and The Smiths just edging Tchaikovsky for 22nd spot with Bach just edging the Rolling Stones for 6th slot.