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The entire rock and roll community owes Robert Plant<\/a> a huge debt for carving out the blueprint for the frontman. <\/p>\n Mick Jagger and Little Richard had been great suggestions of what a frontman could be like in the public eye, but by the time that Plant came up onstage with his flowing golden locks and massive voice, everyone understood that there was a new musical god at work whenever he sang \u2018Immigrant Song\u2019 and \u2018Whole Lotta Love\u2019. But even if he was proud to sing anything that Jimmy Page was playing over, he knew that he was far from the greatest vocalist in the world.<\/p>\n If anything, a lot of what Plant was doing was an imitation of what Steve Marriott did<\/a>, so naturally, every single time he sang. Every single band around at the time had been taking the blues and pushing it to be as hard and as heavy as it could go, and Plant was only one in a long line of people doing the same thing. Only when he did it, he left everyone absolutely stunned at the kind of range that he had.<\/p>\n No one was jumping up those octaves with that much power, and when you look at the bands that sprung up directly afterwards, a lot of them were trying to do the exact same thing. Ozzy Osbourne said that he absolutely loved Zeppelin when he was putting together those first Black Sabbath albums<\/a>, and when Ritchie Blackmore first had the idea of making a band with Deep Purple, he felt that he didn\u2019t really have a clear vision until he heard what Zeppelin sounded like.<\/p>\n But the next generation wasn\u2019t just focused on being Zeppelin clones. There were plenty more bands that were willing to take chances with their music, and somewhere in between the bluesy thunder of Plant\u2019s voice and the more stratospheric voices in prog rock was Freddie Mercury. Queen were definitely influenced by Zeppelin in some capacity, but Mercury\u2019s voice was something that no one had heard before.<\/p>\n Which is strange because you can hear Mercury\u2019s influences every single time he opened his mouth. He was clearly indebted to everything from heavy metal to show tunes whenever he sang their signature songs, but when you listen to their tunes, no one was ever going to deliver them as he could. Mercury was a natural star every single time he played tunes like \u2018Killer Queen\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019, and even if Plant had a few more years on him, he knew that no other singer could touch what Mercury did.<\/p>\n
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