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The humble bass guitarist is an under-appreciated beast. Yet try to imagine the last six decades of popular music without James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Jaco Pastorious or John Paul Jones, to name but a few.

To celebrate the launch of MusicRadar's dedicated bass channel, we asked you to submit your nominations for the greatest electric bassist of all time via Facebook, Twitter and the comments on our original call-to-arms article.

Once we'd whittled your suggestions down to a top 25, the voting began in earnest. So, without further ado, in reverse order, we present the 25 greatest bassists of all time, as voted for by you. Kicking things off in style at number 25 is Curtis Mayfield's super-funky early 1970s bassman, Joseph 'Lucky' Scott.

You said:

"It's gotta be Lucky Scott. So underrated. Check out his sublime work on Pusherman or We Got To Have Peace to hear why." (From Jason via Facebook, thanks)

Listen: Curtis Mayfield - We Got To Have Peace (live on The Old Grey Whistle Test)

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