Weekend Rock Question: Who Is the Greatest Dead Rock Star of All Time?

Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley

Frank Micelotta/Getty (Cobain), David Montgomery/Getty(Hendrix), Paul Ryan/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty, Michael Ochs Archive/Getty (Elvis)

Last week, we asked Rolling Stone’s Facebook fans to name their picks for the greatest debut album of all time – and we compiled the votes into an official top ten list.

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Now it’s time for a new weekend rock question: Who is the greatest dead rock star of all time? (Consider these four pictured as suggestions.)

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You can vote here in the comments, on facebook.com/rollingstone, or on Twitter with the #weekendrock hashtag.

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Song Stories

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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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