Crack is wack, don’t do it. What else can explain the Beatles at #8 and the Backstreet Boys at #22. The Beatles behind Dire Straits? I’d put Ringo solo work ahead of Dire Straits.
Q Magazine’s full Top 50 Bands Of All Time list is as follows:
1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Rolling Stones
4. U2
5. Queen
6. Dire Straits
7. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
8. The Beatles
9. Bob Marley and the Wailers
10. Fleetwood Mac
11. The Eagles
12. The Beach Boys
13. Oasis
14. Bon Jovi
15. Guns N’ Roses
16. Nirvana
17. Genesis
18. Bee Gees
19. Metallica
20. Boston
21. R.E.M.
22. Backstreet Boys
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers
24. AC/DC
25. The Police
26. Steve Miller Band
27. ABBA
28. Santana
29. Simply Red
30. Supertramp
31. The Carpenters
32. Journey
33. Spice Girls
34. Def Leppard
35. Deep Purple
36. UB40
37. Aerosmith
38. Wham!
39. Pearl Jam
40. Hootie & the Blowfish
41. Status Quo
42. Simple Minds
43. Wet Wet Wet
44. ‘N Sync
45. Eurythmics
46. Duran Duran
47. Erasure
48. The Shadows
49. Boyz II Men
50. Van Halen
Source: The Staff
