Pete I never said he was as good as Perry, just he up there around the top of my list along with a few others. Perry is defo the best for me.

Its definately a difficult thing to single out one particular artist across the whole rock range as there are songs that bring out the best and worst in most of them. As said above Freddie had an absolutely awesome voice and a cracking vocal range and he too is undoubtedly in the top few but I agree with you on the "pop rock" thing. However Rock as a genre has many of its own little sub genres if you know what I mean. Like Soft Rock, Rock Ballads, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Metal etc. Im sure if you were to answer the best of each you would have a whole variation of artists and maybe not even mention some of those you would have in your "rock" top few. I hope more folk put their opinions across cos it could have the makings for an interesting thread this one