THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

7 Bruce Springsteen 7 Bruce Springsteen (left) and Steven Van Zandt (right) performing with the E Street Band at the Super Bowl ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 was written about Asbury Park but took on a different tone in the wake of the ...

7 Bruce Springsteen 7 Springsteen had done on his first two albums, with a greater emphasis on harmony, especially vocal harmoni ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Regal Theatre in 1963. But Wonder was much more than a freakish prepubescent ...

7 Stevie Wonder 7 generation of electronic keyboard instruments made him a pioneer and an inspiration to rock musicians, the inv ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Thrown together in September 1975 by manager Malcolm McLaren to promote Sex, ...

7 The Sex Pistols 7 time their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols reached number one in early November, Rotte ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Prince’s recording career began with funk and soul marketed to a black audien ...

7 Prince 7 1980s and remains his biggest-selling album. Three of its singles were hits: the frenetic “Let’s Go Crazy,” the andro ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone) allowed her to achieve levels of power ...

7 Madonna 7 success signaled a clear message of financial control to other women in the industry, but in terms of image she was ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Williams of the hit-making duo The Neptunes. In 2008 she was inducted into th ...

Michael Jackson’s singles-studded solo album, Off the Wall, was released August 10, 1979, weeks before the singer’s 21st birthda ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Thriller sold more than 40 million copies, captured a slew of awards, includi ...

7 Michael Jackson 7 The singer was preparing a comeback tour in 2009 when he died suddenly of cardiac arrest. A widespread out- ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 D combined with bombastic, dissonant, and poignantly detailed backing tracks ...

7 U2 7 identity with its grandiose sound; a merger of the Edge’s minimal, reverb-drenched guitar; and Bono’s quasi-operatic voca ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 was in store, but this time, rather than boldly pushing forward, the band sou ...

Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain performing with the band at a taping of the MTV show Unplugged in 1993. Getty Images/Frank Micelotta ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 gun-related escapades—a number of which involved his wife, Courtney Love, lea ...