Most powerful and influential celebrity of the past 30 years?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Throughout the 80's, Queen continued to consistently tour soldout shows worldwide, and I think they're more popular than Michael Jackson in Africa and many other non-English speaking countries.

But I'd say that for the last 20 years or so, Michael Jackson has become more "infamous" than "influential." He hasn't started crazes of molesting kids and waggling babies from balconies. He's somehow managed to craft his current image into a cross between Courtney Love and Howard Hughes.

If we can only go back 30 years though, we don't get to count "Bohemian Rhapsody" either. That knocks Queen down a peg.