Who is the greatest rockstar in all of music history? Staffers at Spin Magazine recently took on the challenge of ranking the best rockers of all time.

“I’m not saying we did a scientific one either,” Spin’s Bob Guccione Jr. writes.

Guccione Jr. adds, “Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a ‘heat index’ or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that.”

Explaining in more detail what went into the magazine’s research process, Guccione Jr. admits, “In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the ‘we.’

“I picked the list. I ranked everyone and along with several excellent SPIN contributors and the editor Daniel Kohn wrote the entries. So this is as subjective as it gets!”

From Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, Tom Petty to Elton John, Chuck Berry, Robert Plant, John Mellencamp, Stevie Nicks, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix and Prince, you’ll want to read Spin Magazine’s FULL list here.

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