Origin: London, England

Decades: 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman, tempering his mach... Read More

Bob Marley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Muddy Waters, Peter Tosh, Howlin' Wolf, The Everly Brothers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bo Diddley and Buddy Holly

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