10 Most Iconic British Frontmen Of 1990s Rock Music

There are probably a good chunk of people out there scratching their heads wondering how someone like Freddie Mercury could make a list like this. Considering the Britpop explosion and the fact that he died in 1991, one of the greatest frontmen of rock 20 years beforehand didn't really have any place in the cultural conversation anymore, right? Technically yes, but we're talking about someone like Freddie Mercury here.

After only being given a few more years to live by his doctors, Freddie made every last second on this Earth count, especially when going into the final albums like Innuendo and Made in Heaven. Just the title track of Innuendo was enough to put him back in the conversation of the greatest of all time, going through different movements that almost manages to equal that of Bohemian Rhapsody.

The victory lap for his career though has to be what he contributed to his final recordings, performing the mammoth performance of the Show Must Go On in one take and working tirelessly in the studio to give his fans everything he could before eventually succumbing to pneumonia in late 1991. While Queen might not have been the rock juggernauts that they were in their prime, the grace that Freddie carried himself with up until the very end is the definition of how to bow out gracefully.