Looking back on the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, what voice could you not get enough of? The broke into the music scene and that voice was like something you had never heard before.
Ultimate Classic Rock looked back 4-5 decades ago at the bands and those vocalists they consider to be the best “new Wave” singers of that era and here’s what they came up with...
1. Robert Smith of The Cure
2. David Byrne of the Talking Heads
3. Debbie Harry of Blondie
4. Sting from The Police
5. Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics
6. Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode
7. Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
8. Elvis Costello of the Elvis Costello’s lol
9. Ric Ocasek of The Cars
10. Michael Hutchence from INXS
11. Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music
12. Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders
13. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears
14. Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo
15. Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees
