20 Greatest Rock Singers Of All Time

14. John Lennon

Far from the screeches and sexual wailing of more overtly metal music, John Lennon's voice was intimate and impassioned but no less charismatic.

He never shouted - aside from flirting with noise in some earlier, more raucous Beatles songs - but his band's songs live on forever because of the irresistible intimacy of his vocal story-telling. And the fact that his technical prowess often gets forgotten is a travesty.