- Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Often viewed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time among critics and fans alike, … - Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones in 1962. With songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, he has written and recorded hundreds of songs including "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Miss You" and "Start Me Up". As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. - Peter Travers
Peter Travers is the film critic for "Rolling Stone" magazine. - Courtney Love
Courtney Love (born July 9 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. "Rolling Stone" has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock." - Patti Smith
Patricia Lee ("Patti") Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. Smith came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album "Horses". Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential musicians. - Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926 in Overland, Missouri) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Chuck Berry is an immensely influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock & roll music. Cub Koda wrote, "Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, … - Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mitchell's singing, over several decades, began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. - Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared "Dean of American Rock Critics". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as "Xgau". - David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is the chief film critic for "New York Magazine", as well as the film critic for NPR's "Fresh Air" and "CBS Sunday Morning". Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard in 1981. He is often associated with friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael, to whom he was close. He has previously been a film critic for "Slate" (1996-2005), the "New York Post", the "Village Voice", … - Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds, from late 1966 to 1968, before founding English rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is credited as a forefather of heavy metal by not only turning up the accepted volume of the electric guitar but also with his anthemic riffs and meticulous studio production. - Jack White
Jack White (occasionally Jack III White or Jack White III), born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He started as a part-time musician working with various underground bands in Detroit, while working by day as an upholsterer. He is best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes. - Jann Wenner
I n 1967, a 20-year-old Jann S. Wenner dropped out of the University of California Berkeley to start a quirky rock-music-oriented biweekly called Rolling Stone -and changed American culture. Treating the interests of America's increasingly vocal youth with seriousness unknown before, Rolling Stone spoke to-and for-an entire generation. - Ry Cooder
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer and composer, known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American roots music and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries. Cooder was ranked number 8 on "Rolling Stone"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." - Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi (born 1970) is an American journalist. Currently he works at "Rolling Stone" where he authors a column called "Road Rage" for the print version, and an additional weekly online-only column called "The Low Post". He is best known for his coverage of the 2004 US presidential election, and for his former editorial positions at newspapers "the eXile", the "New York Press", and "the Beast". - David Fricke
David Fricke is a senior editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music. In the 1990s, he was Managing Editor before stepping down. - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 - August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist. His broad appeal made him one of the world's most influential electric blues guitarists. In 2003, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan. - Linda Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona) is a popular singer with multiple Grammy Awards, numerous multi-platinum albums, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. A singer-songwriter and record producer, she is better known as a definitive interpreter of songs. Starting at the forefront of the folk rock and country rock genres which defined post-sixties rock music, … - Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a UK guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film score composer. Knopfler was originally best-known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Dire Straits, which he founded in 1977. Since the final Dire Straits album in 1991, Knopfler has continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist, under his own name. - Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was contributing editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and void of cynicism. - Lester Bangs
Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his work at "CREEM" and "Rolling Stone" magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism. - Eric Boehlert
Eric Boehlert is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, where he writes a weekly column. He is also the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush . He spent five years as a senior writer for Salon , and worked for four years as a writer for Rolling Stone . He is currently working on a book about the 2008 presidential campaign that will examine the media coverage of the campaign, as well as the role played by liberal bloggers. - Robert Palmer
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 - November 20, 1997) was a 20th century American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer. Robert Palmer is best known for books he authored such as "Deep Blues", his music journalism articles for "The New York Times" and "Rolling Stone" magazine, his work producing blues recordings and the soundtrack to the film "Deep Blues", … - Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism. Marcus was born in San Francisco. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in political science. - Tom Morello
Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964, as Thomas Baptist Morello) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist who played in Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine. He performs as a solo acoustic artist under the pseudonym The Nightwatchman. He is acclaimed for his unique guitar style and is noted for his outspoken politics. Tom was ranked #26 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". - Richard Thompson
Richard John Thompson is a British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting. As a guitarist Thompson is notable for the breadth of his influences — which range from Buddy Holly and James Burton via Les Paul and Django Reinhardt to less likely influences such as pipe player Billy Pigg — and for his penchant for improvising rather than relying on worked out solos for each song. - Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire". - Jim Derogatis
James "Jim" DeRogatis (born 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a American music critic. DeRogatis has written articles for magazines such as "Spin", "Guitar World" and "Modern Drummer". He is also the Pop Music Critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times". He often tries to separate himself from other music critics by promoting bands that have not yet become widely popular, but are close to doing so. - Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. In 2003, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked Stills the #28 in its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". - Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden is an American writer, music critic, and film critic. He first achieved prominence in the 1970s writing for "Rolling Stone" magazine, where he tended to cover singer songwriter and traditional pop artists. He subsequently became a longstanding music and film critic for "The New York Times". - Robert Altman
Robert Mark Altman (born October 20,1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams. He was soon hired as a photojournalist by "Rolling Stone" magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for "Rolling Stone" he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art. - Dave Marsh
Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950) is an American music critic. Growing up in the environs of Detroit, Michigan, he attended Wayne State University but failed to graduate. Marsh was a co-founder of "Creem" magazine in Detroit, and he also wrote for "Newsday", "The Village Voice", and "Rolling Stone" magazine. He also edited "Rock and Roll Confidential", a newsletter about rock music and social issues. - Bizarre
Rufus Johnson (born July 5, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan), better known as Bizarre, is an American rapper and member of the group D12. More recently Rufus Johnson was featured on a season of MTV's Celebrity Fit Club. Bizarre and Eminem have been affiliated with the rap group the Outsidaz which included Young Zee, Rah Digga and Pacewon among others. D12 is said to have joined the Outsidaz early in their career to form a large collective. - Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio (born Ernest Joseph Anastasio III on September 30th, 1964) is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish originals, 140 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band in the generic. He was rated as number 73 on the "Rolling Stone" List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. - John Frusciante
John Anthony Frusciante (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the guitarist of the alternative/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has performed on five studio recordings ("Mother's Milk", "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", "Californication", "By the Way" and "Stadium Arcadium"). - Greg Kot
Greg Kot has been the rock critic of the "Chicago Tribune" since 1990. His biography of Wilco and the state of the music industry, "Wilco: Learning How to Die", was published in 2004 by Doubleday/Broadway Books. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and other national periodicals, and is the music analyst for Fox-TV morning newscasts. His work also has appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica and numerous books, including "Harrison, … - Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and moved to Houston when he was five years old. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts there and later graduated from East Texas State University. Mark worked as a photographers assistant in Houston for several years before moving to New York. - Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine. In addition to writing music reviews and profile stories, Sheffield also writes the Pop Life column in the Mixed Media section of the magazine. His work has also been featured in "The Village Voice" and "Spin". His first book, "Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time" (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), … - Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the thrash metal band Metallica. Hammett is one of the better-known students of guitarist and instructor Joe Satriani. In 2003, he was ranked 11th in the "Rolling Stone"s "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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