Reverse list of writer/musicians ?
Zappa would be near to No.1 . Clever, funny,inventive and a fine guitar player to boot.
Actually Steve Wonder was pretty good when he was young. Same for Springsteen IMO, I kinda liked some of his early stuff but fame and fortune seemed to affect a change in each of them.
In my books Pink Floyd is tied for worst with The Moody Blues.
Aw gee... now I'm about to have a flashback to 1977...
Please, somebody put on some Van Morrison.
Andy Partridge of XTC is criminally underrated.
Zappa was a musical genius. Check out Steve Vai’s youtube where he describes his audition with Zappa if you haven’t seen it. Zappa was a ridiculous taskmaster
Better when he kept his mouth shut (shut up and play your guitar). He hated Christians. In one concert he wasted a bunch of time on a anti-Christian rant that really pissed me off.