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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin formed in 1968 out of the ashes of the Yardbirds, and across four founding members — Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham — built a catalog that fused blues, folk, and hard rock into a sound that became foundational to the development of heavy metal and hard rock as genres in their own right. The band's fourth album, released untitled in 1971 and commonly called "Led Zeppelin IV," contains "Stairway to Heaven," one of the most played rock radio songs in history, and the album itself has sold more than 37 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums ever recorded. Led Zeppelin built their reputation as much through legendary live performances as studio recordings, and drummer John Bonham's death in 1980 led the surviving members to disband the group immediately rather than continue with a replacement, a decision that's kept their catalog frozen at four members' worth of work rather than diluted by a lineup change. The band's influence on the development of hard rock and heavy metal is difficult to overstate — Page's guitar work and production techniques, Bonham's drumming, and Plant's vocal range collectively set a technical and stylistic bar that shaped how an entire generation of rock musicians approached the genre after them.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962 and have remained active, in some form, for more than six decades, a level of career longevity unmatched by any other major rock band, still touring and releasing new material well into the 2020s with founding members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards still at the group's core. The band built its early identity in deliberate contrast to the Beatles' cleaner, more polished image, cultivating a raw, blues-rooted sound and a rebellious public persona that music journalists at the time framed as a direct rivalry, even as the two bands' members were often genuinely friendly off stage. Songs like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Gimme Shelter," and "Sympathy for the Devil" became defining anthems of 1960s and '70s rock, and the band's ongoing "Voodoo Lounge" and subsequent world tours have repeatedly ranked among the highest-grossing concert tours in music history well into their own seventies and eighties. The band's survival through numerous lineup changes, including guitarist Brian Jones's 1969 death and Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood's subsequent tenures, along with Jagger and Richards's famously turbulent but enduring creative partnership, has made the Rolling Stones the standard against which any band's career longevity in rock music is measured.
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