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Do you know the ages of rock stars you listen to? Well, here you have them: the ages of top rock stars listed by fame and notability. While it may seem like a nominal piece of information, it's always fun finding out the age of your favorite musicians. You may learn they're much older than you thought or, better yet, they may be younger and still touring! While age is simply a number when it comes to music, as both young and old artists are out there doing their thing, old age can have quite the effect on a singer's voice or their ability to play an instrument. Considering this, you'll find old and retired musicians from some of the best rock bands ever, as well as more recent faces of music still jamming in the studio and touring the world.  

Featuring both famous old rock stars and popular young musicians from a broad range of genres and decades, the list of rock stars and their ages below encompasses some serious talent from over the years. While there are plenty of famous rock stars over 60 (and even older), these aging rockers aren't the only ones with notoriety. Sure, Mick Jagger may be one of the most famous frontmen of rock, but then you have singers like Axl Rose who's nearly 20 years younger and very well known. Whether you're looking for how old aged rock stars are or that of more youthful singers from today's top modern rock bands, like Jared Leto and Mark Hoppus, you'll likely find them here. 

Though there's a long list of famous rock stars and singers throughout music, this ages of rock stars list features the most popular and relevant musicians of them all—ordered loosely by these qualifications. So, how old are your favorite musicians? Read on below to find out. 

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Robert Plant is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 69 Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Possessing a powerful and wide vocal range he ...more

Mick Jagger is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 74 Sir Michael Philip Jagger, better known as Mick Jagger, is an English singer, songwriter and one time actor, best known as the lead singer and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Jagger's ...more

Ozzy Osbourne is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 69 John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, songwriter, and television personality. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the rock band Black ...more

Roger Daltrey is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 74 Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE is an English singer, songwriter and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the founder and lead singer of the ...more

Steven Tyler is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Steven Tyler is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and former television music competition judge, best known as the frontman of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which ...more

Axl Rose is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 56 W. Axl Rose is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Due to his powerful and wide vocal ...more

David Lee Roth is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 63 David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roth is best known as the ...more

Paul McCartney is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 75 Sir James Paul McCartney MBE is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the ...more

Bono is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 57 Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best recognized as the frontman of the ...more

James Hetfield is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 54 James Alan Hetfield is the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main songwriter, and lyricist for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield is mainly known for his rhythm ...more

Alice Cooper is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa ...more

Dave Grohl is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 49 David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and producer who is best known as the former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and the ...more

Bruce Springsteen is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen ...more

Stevie Nicks is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 69 Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top ...more

Eddie Vedder is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 53 Eddie Vedder is an American musician who is best known for being the lead vocalist and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. Known for his distinctive and powerful ...more

Eric Clapton is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 73 Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as ...more

Jon Bon Jovi is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 56 John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor, best known as the founder and frontman of rock band Bon Jovi, ...more

Steve Perry is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 69 Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Journey during their most commercially ...more

Brian Johnson is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Brian Johnson is an English singer and songwriter. Since 1980, he has been the lead singer of Australian rock band AC/DC, with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. ...more

John Fogerty is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 72 John Cameron Fogerty is an American musician, songwriter, and guitarist, early in his career best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for the band Creedence Clearwater Revival and later ...more

Bruce Dickinson is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 59 Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, is an English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...more

Roger Waters is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 74 George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, ...more

Debbie Harry is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 72 Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known as the lead singer of the new wave and punk rock band Blondie. She recorded several number one ...more

Sting is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 66 Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, known on stage as Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist. He was principal songwriter, lead ...more

David Gilmour is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 72 David Jon Gilmour, CBE, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the progressive rock band ...more

Anthony Kiedis is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 55 Anthony Joseph Kiedis is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers with whom he has fronted since their inception in 1983. Kiedis is a ...more

Iggy Pop is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Iggy Pop is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. Osterberg became known as "Iggy" in high school, when he served as drummer for a local blues band, The Iguanas. He is ...more

Peter Gabriel is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving ...more

Rob Halford is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 66 Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is considered ...more

Rod Stewart is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 73 Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of English and Scottish ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music ...more

Billy Idol is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 62 William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock musician, songwriter and actor. Born in Stanmore, Middlesex, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as ...more

Sammy Hagar is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar, also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and musician. Hagar came to prominence in the 1970s with the hard rock band ...more

Phil Collins is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 67 Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO, is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and actor. He gained fame as both the drummer and lead singer for the ...more

Neil Young is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 72 Neil Young is a singer-songwriter, Musician,film score composer, film producer, film director, actor and screenwriter.

Geddy Lee is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 64 Geddy Lee Weinrib, OC, known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee ...more

Ann Wilson is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 67 Ann Dustin Wilson is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the hard rock band Heart. Regarded as one of the best female ...more

Don Henley is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and founding member of the Eagles. He was the drummer and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles ...more

Carlos Santana is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Carlos Santana audio is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American ...more

Steve Miller is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 74 Steven Haworth "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more pop-oriented sound which, from the ...more

Paul Rodgers is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 Paul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1960s and 1970s as vocalist of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the ...more

Paul Stanley is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 66 Stanley Bert Eisen, better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, and painter, best known for being the frontman of the rock band Kiss. He is the ...more

Simon Le Bon is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 59 Simon John Charles Le Bon is a British musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and musician of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia.

Brian Wilson is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 75 Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the rock band the Beach Boys.

Billy Joel is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth ...more

Billy Gibbons is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, producer and actor, best known as the guitarist of the American rock band ZZ Top. He began his career in the Moving ...more

David Byrne is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 65 David Byrne is a Scottish musician and a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his ...more

Jack White is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 42 Jack White is an American musician, record producer, and occasional actor. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the The White Stripes, although he has had success in other bands ...more

Gregg Allman is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 70 Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman is an American rock and blues singer-songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist and a founding member, with his brother Duane, of The Allman Brothers Band. In the ...more

Lindsey Buckingham is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 68 Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as guitarist and male vocalist of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and 1997 to the present ...more

Vince Neil is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list Ages of Rock Stars
age 57 Vincent Neil Wharton is an American vocalist and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.