Robert Plant. Mick Jagger. Maybe even Ozzy Osbourne or David Bowie. These are just a few of the names that spring to mind when casual conversation turns to ordaining one still-living music legend as The Last Great Rock Star. Oozing machismo and replete with pasts steeped in sex, scandal, and substance abuse, these aging, rabble-rousing rebels all seem like sensible contenders that is, unless you’re Stars frontman Torquil Campbell.

For this Canadian crooner, the title should go to a certain melancholic Mancunian, or a well-bred and super-polished rap mogul, rather than any of the aforementioned arena greats.