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50 Top Pop Brainiacs

Posted May 25, 08 11:43 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – "Towering natural abilities" and "exceptional creative powers" infuse the most memorable music of generations, forged by Blender's top 50 pop-music geniuses. The top 10:

  1. Bob Dylan: Each of his brave self-reinventions is "an authentic American original."
  2. John Lennon: "His drive pushed the Beatles from a covers band to the world’s best-loved and most influential pop act."
  3. Chuck Berry: His guitar riffs are still the "bedrock" of rock and roll five decades on.
  4. Bob Marley: "No one did more to define and popularize a musical genre."
  5. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: Duo created "decade of classics."

  1. Stevie Wonder: A "child genius" who continued to grow.
  2. Thom Yorke: The brain behind Radiohead "moving in his own dizzying orbit."
  3. Miles Davis: Jazz icon's trumpet "a hauntingly human voice in the hubbub of innovation."
  4. Kurt Cobain: "His all-too-brief body of work changed the course of popular music."
  5. Madonna: "Sheer ambition and bloody-mindedness remain her calling cards."
For the complete list, click the link below.

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American guitarist and singer Chuck Berry is seen in this file photo April 4, 1980. One of the possible criminal charges scandalized New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer now faces is violating the Mann Act, which...   (AP Photo)
This undated file photo shows John Lennon. When John Lennon gave teenager Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to "Give Peace A Chance" in 1969, he told her to hold on to the piece of paper. She did, and...   (AP Photo)
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Bob Dylan is seen in this April 27, 1965 file photo in London. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, won an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday April 7, 2008.   (AP Photo/File)
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