Single-most iconic Rock song?

Freebird

Top 5 (in no particular order)

All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix)
Stairway to Heaven
Freebird
Hotel California
Pour Some Sugar on Me (Because, "frick you!", that's why)

Next 5

Warpigs
Won't Get Fooled Again
Sympathy for the Devil
Hey Jude
God Only Knows

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Lucky Man

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I hold this song in extremely high regard, but you won't find many people who agree with you. For a guy known as a bassist, Greg Lake did some fine work with an acoustic sixer. (assuming you're talking about the ELP song)

It's Limelight.

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Stairway to Heaven

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Right band wrong song. Maybe song from the rock era, but for pure rock song I suggest;


Kashmir

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Right band wrong song. Maybe song from the rock era, but for pure rock song I suggest;


Kashmir

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How could you possibly argue that Kashmir is more iconic than Stairway?

Here are the only actual candidates:

Stairway to Heaven
Hey Jude
I Want to Hold Your Hand
We Will Rock You
Bohemian Rhapsody

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Here are the only actual candidates:

Stairway to Heaven
Hey Jude
I Want to Hold Your Hand
We Will Rock You
Bohemian Rhapsody

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Hotel California
Jump
Purple Haze
Cocaine
Good Vibrations

In terms of what's mainstream iconic -

I'd put Sweet Home Alabama ahead of Freebird. Played more, covered more, featured more. Neil Young angle, etc. That's not a qualitative judgment.

Immediately identifiable and has less of the darker, slow burn quality of Freebird, Stairway, All Along the Watchtower, etc. (not bad, just arguably a detriment to mainstream iconic status - Bohemian Rhapsody being the outlier).

Stairway to Freebird


Then the rest just kinda fall in line behind…

Yea, I’m just saying those songs are on the list.

I think Stairway to Heaven is probably the winner.