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I came across this last night. It's a good list.....aside that the Small Faces should've been ranked 4th.

I think I'm familiar with 60+% of the names listed.

...and Lulu should have been top 10.

Good to see the Yardbirds so high on the list.

Thanks for sharing, Charles. It's hard to quibble with this list.

i would think that 150 is a big number, should pretty much cover any person or band of any consequence.

Fab list, though it's dated 1963-66. The Small Faces would have been way higher with a time frame of say 1964-68, which I think is a better British Invasion time period...

I've heard of:
47 of the first 50
13 of the 2nd 50
4 of the 3rd 50
0 of the "honorable mentions"

I know 72 of the top 100:

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Kinks
4. The Who
5. The Yardbirds
6. The Animals
7. The Dave Clark Five
8. The Hollies
9. Dusty Springfield
10. Herman's Hermits
11. Gerry & the Pacemakers
12. The Searchers
13. Peter & Gordon
14. Manfred Mann
15. Petula Clark
16. The Troggs
17. Donovan
18. The Zombies
19. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
20. Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas
21. Chad & Jeremy
22. Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders
23. Tom Jones
24. The Moody Blues
25. Small Faces
26. Freddie & the Dreamers
27. Cliff Richard
28. Cilla Black
29. The Shadows
30. Marianne Faithfull
31. Brian Poole & the Tremeloes
32. The Pretty Things
33. Them
34. The Fortunes
35. Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated
36. Billy Fury
37. The Spencer Davis Group
38. Sandie Shaw
39. Shirley Bassey
40. Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
41. The Swinging Blue Jeans
42. Adam Faith
43. The Honeycombs
44. Dave Berry
45. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
46. The Merseybeats
47. The Graham Bond Organisation

49. The Nashville Teens

51. The Fourmost

53. Unit 4+2
54. The Rockin' Berries
55. Chris Andrews

58. Lulu
59. The Ivy League

61. Heinz

64. Chris Farlowe
65. The Tornados
66. Mike Berry & the Outlaws

68. The Applejacks

70. Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
71. The Sorrows
72. Steampacket
73. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
74. The Alan Price Set

76. Twinkle
77. Paul & Barry Ryan
78. John's Children
79. Screaming Lord Sutch

81. Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers

88. Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band
89. The Creation

93. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band

Of the top 100, I've seen the following live:

1. The Beatles (Paul McCartney, twice)
2. The Rolling Stones (6 times)
3. The Kinks (Ray Davies, twice)
4. The Who (once)
5. The Yardbirds (once)
6. The Animals (Eric Burdon, 3 times)
8. The Hollies (once)
12. The Searchers (twice)
18. The Zombies (once)
19. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (4 times, + autograph)
23. Tom Jones (3 times)
24. The Moody Blues (once)
27. Cliff Richard (3 times, once w. The Shadows)
29. The Shadows (3 times, once w. Cliff Richard, + Hank Marvin 3 times)
31. Brian Poole & the Tremeloes (Brian Poole, once, The Tremeloes, once)
32. The Pretty Things (once)
37. The Spencer Davis Group (Steve Winwood, once)
41. The Swinging Blue Jeans (once)
81. Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers (Cliff Bennett, once)

150 seems like a wimpy number to go with. It's sort of like when Ultimate Guitar choose the "500 Greatest Guitarist of all time" and didn't even bother to list them in any order as to who is number 1, 2, 3, etc. To further wussifie it, they would, some times, list duos or an entire band is one entrie. Further watering down the list. They should have stuck with 100, at the most.

I'm envious, Googa, that you have seen the Hollies. I have only seen eight of these acts:
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Kinks
4. The Who
18. The Zombies
23. Tom Jones
24. The Moody Blues
27. Cliff Richard
58. Lulu
Hope to add a ninth (Petula Clark ) in Las Vegas on May 1.

And I'm envious of you too, David, because you have seen Lulu and will soon get to see Pet Clark!

I attempted to see if there was anyone left off of this list who had notable hits. The only one I could come up with was Billie Davis, who's version of "Tell Him" fits right in with any of the other known woman artists at the time.

Would've also said The Herd before noticing the 1966 cutoff.