| POLL RESULTS |
| Week: |
593 |
| Date: |
10/30/2017 |
| Question: |
What was the best live performance of a rock song by an artist? (Click on song title at results page to hear the song live) |
| Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
| |
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson, Motown 25, Pasadena, CA March 25, 1983
 |
55 |
3.8% |
| |
With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker, at Woodstock, NY, Aug 17, 1969
|
54 |
3.7% |
| |
Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin, at Monterey Music Festival, CA, Jun 18, 1967
|
53 |
3.6% |
| |
Young Man Blues - The Who, at Leeds, UK, Feb 16, 1970
|
52 |
3.6% |
| |
Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones, at Madison Square Garden, NY, Nov, 1969
|
52 |
3.6% |
| |
Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles, Apple rooftop, London, UK Jan, 1969
|
52 |
3.6% |
| |
Hey Jude - The Beatles, on the David Frost TV show, Sept 4, 1968
|
51 |
3.5% |
| |
I Want to Take You Higher - Sly and the Family Stone, Woodstock, NY, Aug 16, 1969
|
50 |
3.4% |
| |
Summertime Blues - The Who, at Woodstock, NY, Aug 16,1969
|
50 |
3.4% |
| |
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd, at Fox Theatre, Atlanta GA, July 8, 1976
|
50 |
3.4% |
| |
Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, NY, Aug 18, 1969
|
50 |
3.4% |
| |
Thats Alright Mama - Elvis Presley, from his TV special, Burbank, CA, Dec, 1968
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner, at Beat Club, Bremen, West Germany, April 21, 1971
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Sumertime - Janis Joplin, at The Hollywood Palace on Nov 2, 1968
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, Nov 22, 1975
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin, at Madison Square Garden, NY, July 29, 1973
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young, Saturday Night Live, NYC, Sept 30, 1989
|
49 |
3.4% |
| |
Highway Star - Deep Purple, in Osaka, Japan, Aug 16, 1972
|
48 |
3.3% |
| |
Layla (Acoustic) - Eric Clapton, MTV Unplugged, Windsor, UK, Jan 16, 1992
|
48 |
3.3% |
| |
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick, at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, April, 1978
|
45 |
3.1% |
| |
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby/Stills/Nash, at Woodstock, NY, Aug, 1969
|
44 |
3% |
| |
Loving You (aka 'Shock it to Me') - Ike & Tina Turner, Madison Sq Garden, NY, Nov 1969
|
44 |
3% |
| |
Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band, Fillmore East, NYC, July, 1971
|
44 |
3% |
| |
America - Simon and Garfunkel, Central Park NYC, Sept 19, 1981
|
42 |
2.9% |
| |
Time Is On My Side - Rolling Stones, Hampton Coliseum, VA, Nov 5, 1981
|
42 |
2.9% |
| |
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac (really just Nicks and Buckingham), Burbank, CA, Aug 19, 1997
|
42 |
2.9% |
| |
Turn The Page - Bob Seger/The Silver Bullet Band, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, Sept 4, 1975
|
41 |
2.8% |
| |
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen, on Saturday Night Live, NYC, NY, Sept 25, 1982
|
40 |
2.7% |
| |
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie - Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973
|
40 |
2.7% |
| |
Light My Fire - The Doors, Hollywood Bowl, July, 1968
|
11 |
0.8% |
| |
So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star - Tom Petty/Heartbreakers, Wiltern Theatre, LA, CA, Aug, 1985
|
10 |
0.7% |
| |
The Load-Out/Stay - Jackson Browne, Columbia, MD, Aug 27, 1977
|
9 |
0.6% |
| |
Fingertips, Part 2 - Little Stevie Wonder, Regal Theatre, Chicago, IL, Jun 1, 1963
|
9 |
0.6% |
| |
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, at Reading, CA, Aug 30, 1992
|
8 |
0.5% |
| |
Dark Star - Grateful Dead, at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, Feb 27, 1969
|
8 |
0.5% |
| |
Purple Rain - Prince, in the rain at The Super Bowl, Miami, FLA, Feb 4, 2007
|
5 |
0.3% |
| |
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd, Earl's Court, London, UK June, 1980
|
3 |
0.2% |
| |
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen, at Hammersmith Odeon, London, Nov 18, 1975
|
3 |
0.2% |
| |
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon, on David Letterman Show, NYC, 2002
|
3 |
0.2% |
| |
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO, June 5, 1983
|
3 |
0.2% |
| |
Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton, Long Island Arena, Commack, NY, Aug 24, 1975
|
2 |
0.1% |
| |
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads, in Los Angeles, CA, Dec, 1983
|
2 |
0.1% |
| Totals: |
1459 |
100% |