I know the topic header is "100 Great Rock Artists" but I also like the more "pop" side of music. I recall one time at school when I said to a boy that I really, really liked The Beatles' new release The Ballad of John and Yoko and he turned up his nose and said: "That's the commercial side!" The B-side was Harrison's Old Brown Shoe (also a great song with a sublime key change in the middle). That kind of rock snobbery never appealed to me. And the more pop-oriented hits could actually be quite subversive. This is one of my favourite 60s pop hits: The Paris Sisters' version of Dream Lover produced by Phil Spector before he lost the plot. He slowed the piece down and made the song sound positively diseased - ie this is love-sickness. Priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OnAF-g_vo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OnAF-g_vo
