This is a list that my wife, Jolie, put together a while ago (actually in 2002) of her top 20 rock and roll bands. Pretty good list, if you ask me. She and I got to see, together, live shows by two former Beatles (Pete Best, and Paul McCartney), a Kink (Ray Davies), an Animal (Eric Burdon) a Hermit (Peter Noone) and the reconstituted New York Dolls, as well as the reconstituted Soft Boys and reconstitued Buzzcocks (where we got caught up, for a moment, in the moshpit up toward the front of the stage, and Jolie found herself bumping into the lead singer from Everclear. We also saw, in a packed theater, the T Rex concert film Born to Boogie; T Rex and David Bowie producer Tony Visconti was in the audience then. And another piece of trivia is that my wife works just blocks from where Jimi Hendrix started up a recording studio and recorded Electric Ladyland, and also a slight distance from the building which was photographed for the Led Zeppelin LP Physical Graffitti - two pieces of rock trivia we always point out to visitors when we are showing them around Manhattan.
1. The Beatles 2. The Kinks 3. Led Zeppelin 4. The Ramones 5. The Who 6. The Sex Pistols 7. The Heartbreakers (NOT Tom Petty's Heartbreakers!) 8. Fairport Convention 9. The Incredible String Band 10. Jethro Tull 11. Pink Floyd 12. The New York Dolls 13. The Stylistics 14. Sly and Family Stone 15. T. Rex 16. The Rolling Stones 17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience 18. Deep Purple 19. The Clash and 20. The Misfits
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