I like Queen so it would have to be Freddie Mercury
Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain.
There's so many great ones (that are on my list) named already so I'll throw out Dennis and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, Keith Moon of the Who, and Andy Gibb. And please don't laugh but I have to mention Karen Carpenter, too.
Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
Cobain can stay dead. I would bring back Dimebag Darrell.
Laura Branigan...wish I could sing like her.
One Direction
...so I didn't get into trouble after I'd killed them all slowly and painfully. They are talentless puppets, the imperfect personification of everything that is wrong with popular culture. Passable singers, yet they don't dance, play, write... nor do they have anything to say except, 'Look how pretty I am'.
I don't blame them for making a buck, but nor can you blame me for ridding the world of this paradigm of mass-media-mediocrity.
Alternative answer
Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Mingus... Ella... and George Formby.
"If I sign off with pithy quotations, ignore all preceding opinion for I am undoubtedly a fool. And if, after our discourse, I abuse you by proffering my vulgar produce, cast me into the gutter."
Nobody who ended their spoilt attention-seeking ego-exploding lives with the sordid self-indulgence of alcohol or drugs. Let the silly fuckers rot. I would not waste my wish on Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin et al, no matter how good they were (or have become in their absence).
Oh, except Charlie Parker, because he transcended everything.
"If I sign off with pithy quotations, ignore all preceding opinion for I am undoubtedly a fool. And if, after our discourse, I abuse you by proffering my vulgar produce, cast me into the gutter."
Well, if we're talking jazz here, then we can't forget John Coltrane.
Jim Morrison and the Recently deceased Ray Manzarek the Doors of course!
1. Kurt and Nirvana
2. Elvis
3. Conway Twitty
Man, that's an odd list.
it would be freddy mercury a true legend
John Lennon and George Harrison so the Beatles could reunite one last time.
John Bonham: So Led Zeppelin could do a proper reunion (no disrespect to son Jason Bonham).
Jon Lord: So, if Ritchie Blackmore ever got his head out of his ass, Deep Purple could do a proper, "one last time", reunion.
Of course, Freddie Mercury.
It would be Freddie Mercury !!
Let's not forget Mozart (died aged 35), and Schubert (31). Schubert especially was only just getting going before dying of syphilis (apparently).
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