Who are the most influential band/artist of all time ?

[skipper734]

Icy was right, Buddy Holly.

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

Would have been my 2nd choice. White Light/ White Heat in particular spawned generations of imitators

Such as?

 

[Icy Gull]

No relevance whatsoever where his influences may or may not have come, even clowns like Bowie and heavy metal plagarists Zeppelin started somewhere but developed. At least Sir Paul injected his own insight, wit and pathos to leave his own hallmark.

However much you like him I can't see that he has been a big influence on music. All about opinions I guess.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Chuck Berry
Eddie Cochran
Carl Perkins
Little Richard
Brian Wilson
The Everly Brothers
Buddy Holly
Bob Dylan

 

[Willy Dangle]

Rod, Jane and Freddy were good.

 

[Icy Gull]

Such as?

Bowie, who some see as the biggest influence

 

[Icy Gull]

Chuck Berry
Eddie Cochran
Carl Perkins
Little Richard
Brian Wilson
The Everly Brothers
Buddy Holly
Bob Dylan

All good calls

 

[spring hall convert]

Such as?

The list of followed by's here are all artists that acknowledged the Velvets influence. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-velvet-underground-mn0000840402/related

That album in particular is the template for noisy, arty rock music.

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

Elvis Presley?

"before Elvis there was nothing" - John Lennon.

 

[Smithy]

Velvet Underground.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-velvet-underground-the-velvet-revolution-rocks-on-8210230.html

Black Sabbath too.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Chuck Berry
Eddie Cochran
Carl Perkins
Little Richard
Brian Wilson
The Everly Brothers
Buddy Holly
Bob Dylan

All good calls for a certain period

But what about

Louis Jordan (mentioned earlier)
Robert Johnson
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Ray Charles
Hoagy Carmichael
George & Ira Gershwin
Cole Porter

and that's only a small number prior to 1950 !

I'll let you know when i've considered 1950 to 1960

 

[kevtherev]

Whoever influenced the non stop steam of talentless boy bands, who cant play an instrument between them needs shooting...Who was the original boy band anyway, The Beastie Boys I'm sure there was someone before that, but i'm buggered if I can remember who or care, come to that.

 

[spring hall convert]

Whoever influenced the non stop steam of talentless boy bands, who cant play an instrument between them needs shooting...Who was the original boy band anyway, The Beastie Boys I'm sure there was someone before that, but i'm buggered if I can remember who or care, come to that.

The Beastie's a boy band? You are such a bad troll.

Brotherhood of Man?

 

[The Modfather]

Whoever influenced the non stop steam of talentless boy bands, who cant play an instrument between them needs shooting...Who was the original boy band anyway, The Beastie Boys I'm sure there was someone before that, but i'm buggered if I can remember who or care, come to that.

That'll be The Monkees

 

[El Presidente]

As much as I would love to agree with you, surely it has to be The Beatles

I concur.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I've been told by people that know about this stuff that Bing Crosby is the father of it all. Without him nothing. Something to do with breathing and phrasing that made rock and roll possible.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

The Doors

 

[Julio]

Elvis Presley?

"before Elvis there was nothing" - John Lennon.

not quite so...before Elvis there was the blues and great black artists...the quest for racist America was to find a white man who could sing as well as the balck artists, and could be marketed to the white youths. Before these trail blazers there was nothing.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I concur.

All the artists I listed above were major influences on the Beatles, who, in turn, have been the influence for many artists 'till the present day.

 

[kevtherev]

That'll be The Monkees

Yeah ok, but didn't they play there own instruments