Originally Posted by: DavesGuitarJourneyProbably been mentioned a few times, but how about Cat Stevens (Yusuf).

[br][u]Yusuf is definitely up there[/u] along with Carole King "Tapestry" et al, or James Taylor as anyone around in that time of "Cat Stevens" heyday would recall.

In the modern through contemporary music category no-one comes close to "The Beatles" Lennon & McCartney in quantity, quality or success.

That could be extended chronologically to popular music of the past century through to famous names like Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe Gershwin, Berlin, Porter. Too many to name but one "best" of all time.