Eric and I were talking about this yesterday. I heard a radio interview in which the interviewee claimed that the Beatles were the first "band." Could this be correct?
"Band" is defined as a group of musicians playing their own instruments with no marketed frontman controlling the group.
Under this definition the following groups are "bands":
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Byrds
Aerosmith
The Band
Credence Clearwater Revival
The Jefferson Airplane
The following groups are not "bands":
The Supremes
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Bill Haley and the Comets
The Four Seasons
The Four Tops
The Temptations
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The challenge is to find a band which predates the Beatles, who for the sake of argument we'll say began in 1962 with the recording of their first single, Love Me Do.
Answers?
Labels: bands, front man, music, trivia
