I know it may seem weird

@ArtieKat yes of course. He not a pop singer. Born to run great. Born in the USA great. Dancing in the dark great yes. That is it. But he not pop. I like Bruce Springsteen.

@Jonjdw I don't know where you are drawing the boundaries in popular music.
[quote]That is it[/quote] A catalogue of songs spanning the early 1970s to the 2020s?

@ArtieKat yes but no more hits since the early 90s I believe. I did not like the tunnel of love song. I did like streets of Philadelphia. After that what hits.

@ArtieKat drawing the line 80s Pop that is the line. Singer songwriter. No band. Like prince and Michael Jackson. I guess just that I like George Michael and that’s it. I think it was incredibly talented singer and songwriter. I liked what he did. That is the post.

@Jonjdw It's your post, you can set whatever parameters you want.

@ArtieKat and you do too I have no problems with Bruce Springsteen. I’d rather listen to him than prince

@Jonjdw What you haven't addressed is what constitutes popular music and its various sub-genres. Springsteen was one writer/performer in action during the 1980s who came to mind. I'm sure there were many more, writing lyrics with more depth than George Michael's. That's my opinion.

@ArtieKat to me George Michael was pop. Spruce Springsteen is rock. So to me that separates them. And I would still prefer to hear freedom 90 than anything Springsteen has. But born to run comes close.

@Jonjdw What you really mean - it seems to me - is 1980s Top 10 Chart Singles, excluding all other popular music of the decade.

@ArtieKat maybe but the great Elton John agrees with me.

@Jonjdw I'm out of here.

@ArtieKat @Jonjdw ....and whilst this post's thread has detracted from the original poster's comment onto wider musical scopes......let's say this; You can always say that the greatest artist's have been Aretha Franklyn, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, AC/DC, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Pink Floyd...even Taylor Swift or Lady Ga Ga....

There's fans and virtues for all of them...we hear it each and every day...heck, even on here, sweeties....

But, as my dad says, NONE of them can hold a candle (in the wind! Lol!) to the body of work, and all those consecutive No 1's and 2's worldwide, over the course of just 7 years than that of The Beatles....

End of discussion...

Let's all enjoy what we enjoy, but remember the contribution that The Beatles had on each and every subgenre of music that all we are doing is battling it out for the No 2 slot for the greatest..

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Have a nice day...

@CassandraSissy The post was about singer-songwriters working in the 1980s......

@ArtieKat I know...and the Echos of the 60's went through that whole decade. True, GM & Wham probably had more UK hits than Bruce, but one could argue that Paul Mc, John Lennon & George Harrison had plenty of hits too in that decade, separately...

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@CassandraSissy The Beatles emerged during my childhood, less than 10 miles from where I was growing up. Much as I like and hugely respect them and their legacy I am a realist: Lennon was dead, McCartney's best song-writing was undoubtedly during the Beatle-era and, arguably, George Harrison's best work in the 1980s was with The Traveling Wilburys.