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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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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1969 Woodstock festival, played on an overdriven electric guitar to evoke the sounds of bombs and gunfire during the Vietnam War, is remembered as one of the most politically and musically significant performances in rock history. Hendrix's technical innovations on the electric guitar — pioneering the deliberate use of feedback, distortion, and the wah-wah pedal as expressive musical tools rather than accidents to be avoided — fundamentally expanded what the instrument was capable of and directly influenced virtually every major rock guitarist who came after him. His recording career lasted barely four years before his death in 1970 at 27, joining the so-called "27 Club" of prominent musicians who died at that age, yet in that brief span he released three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, that remain foundational texts for rock guitar playing. Hendrix's combination of technical innovation, showmanship, and a genre-blending sound that drew on blues, R&B, and psychedelic rock simultaneously has made him the guitarist most frequently ranked first on "greatest guitarist" lists across the music industry, more than five decades after his death.
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