You could make the case that outside of Elvis he was the biggest icon of the rock era, in terms of solo artists.
I believe you may be right!
And it’s interesting that even given his sexuality or whatever, his general weirdness, he is so respected.
It shows he really did good stuff!
Well, not all of it was brilliant, but worth a try anyways!
I’ll go with Jimi, I might be missing some others.