Several years later, Sopranos creator David Chase chose the lulling, haunting “Thru and Thru” to close the show’s second season, cementing the record’s legacy. The breakout single, “Love is Strong,” was testament to the fact that, even in the heart of the grunge era, a good rock song is a good rock song, period. The album was “Voodoo Lounge,” and the band was the irrepressible Rolling Stones. That summer, a band that had been going strong for three decades dropped its 22nd studio album. I was in high school in 1994 as the rock world mourned the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. They went from “Hard Day’s Night” to “Revolution” to Abbey Road’s “Come Together” and, along the way, tripped out with “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”Īny band in which the infinitely talented George Harrison is only the third most influential member is going to rank among the greatest ever. In less than a decade, they went from suited pop stars strumming simplistic ditties like “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” to serve as soundtrack to the fast-changing times. Įqually impressive is the band’s maturation. Perhaps most tellingly, no reliable figure exists for concert attendance… because fans were so rabid that the Beatles stopped touring in 1966. They’ve sold 183 million records, the most ever. Over an eight-year run the Beatles had an astounding 27 #1 hits, and dozens others nearly adding to that total. In the process they became bigger than Jesus and had their own mania named after them. From 1963 until their breakup in 1970, the Fab Four enjoyed the most condensed run of brilliance in history, bar none. Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way: no list of top rock bands would be viable without the Beatles and the next band, the Rolling Stones.
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