Who is the best writers in the history? (Single, duo etc...)

I think the list is like this:

1. Freddie Mercury (Queen)

2. Elton John / Bernie Taupin

3. Richard Davies / Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)

4. Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller

5. Giorgio Moroder

6. Bob Dylan
- John Fogerty

7. Mick Jagger / Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
- Bruce Springsteen

8. John Lennon (The Beatles)

9. Elvis Presley

10. Bob Marley

I don't have any spesial list but my favorite song composers are

Freddie Mercury
John Deacon
John Lennon

I don't remember more at the moment :)

odd including Elvis when he only co-wrote a dozen songs at most.

Songwriting Geniui not mentioned so far

Raymond Davies (The Kinks)
Andrew Partridge (XTC)
Holland/Dozier/Holland (Motown)

and Stock, Aitkin & Waterman

Well, obviously Beethoven was the greatest composer who ever lived, but limiting this to popular music:

Billy Joel
Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Elton John

There are others, but those are my favorites, in order.

freddie mercury
the boss
eddie vedder
michael stipe
peter gabriel
tom waits
patti smithe
e(from eels)
beck

Just limited to rock music for me, since I'm not going to pretend to know too much about other genres.

-Freddie Mercury/Brian May/Roger Taylor/John Deacon. Probably not the public's definition of the best writers, but for me, they're all strong writers.
-John Lennon
-Roger Waters
-Axl Rose
-Elton John/Bernie Taupin
-David Bowie

The best should be these British milestones:
Brian May/Freddie Mercury/John Deacon/Roger Taylor
Elton John
Paul McCartney/John Lennon/George Harrison
David Bowie

Most of you haven't heard of Giorgo Moroder I think?

Well...he wrote songs to:

- Donna Summer
- Bonnie Tylor
- Flash Dance(music to the film)
- Metropolis (The version from 1984)
- Pat Benatar
- Jon Anderson
- Cycle V
- LoverBoy
- Billy Squier(a man Mercury also have worked with)
- Adam Ant

..and he was also dedicated a song with Freddie Mercury from 1984, one of the solo songs from Mercury, the famous "Love Kills"..

and not forget the beautiful song from the late 80's called "TAKE MY BREATH AWAY"..I dont remember who sing the song, but it was a female singer...

Brian May. I think, other then his guittaring, his songs are some of the best written.

The best songs he written are :-

We Will Rock You

Sail Away Sweet Sister

Who Wants To Live Forever

Driven By You

Too Much Love Will Kill You

Another World

No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)

Tie Your Mother Down

You forgot "Save Me", "White Queen (As It Began)" from Queen II, "All Dead All Dead" from News Of the World and "Flash"!!!!

My favourites of Brian are Save Me, Flash and Who want to live forever

David and Bacharach.

David Gilmour(greatest music writer although he admits he sucks at lyric writing compared to)/Roger Waters(great lyric writer but his music writing became less than desirable after Amused to Death)
Roger Hodgson(although the credits on albums say both members wrote together, they actually wrote separately)
Rick Davies
Freddie Mercury
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Dennis DeYoung
Robert Plant/Jimmy Page
Brian May
Jeff Lynne
Don Henley/Glenn Frey
Angus and Malcolm Young/Bon Scott
Syd Barrett
Glenn Tipton/KK Downing/Rob Halford
Geddy Lee/Alex Lifeson/Neil Peart

I'd definitly add Brian Wilson into any list...and most likely would put him in the top 3

Freddie Mercury (ya know, the singer of Queen)

Brian May (ya know, the guitarist of Queen)

Roger Taylor (ya know, the drummer of Queen)

John Deacon (ya know, the bassist of Queen)

Actually, they are not even close with the best songwriters ever.
Queen was all about fun... not how good the songs were written.

Britney Spears...oh wait, she doesn't write her songs. Okay, scratch that.