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Simply Red
Simply Red
English soul band
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The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes
rock band
2
The Foundations
The Foundations
British musical group
3
The Hollies
The Hollies
English pop group formed in Manchester in the early 1960s
4
Boney M.
Boney M.
Euro-Caribbean vocal group
5
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite
British musical group formed in 1984
6
The Equals
The Equals
band
7
The Trammps
The Trammps
American soul band
8
Home
Home
9
Foreigner
Foreigner
rock band from America and England
10
The Animals
The Animals
English band
11
Hudson-Ford
Hudson-Ford
UK rock band-style duo
12
Love Sculpture
Love Sculpture
Welsh band
13
The Coral
The Coral
British band
14
Jimmy James
Jimmy James
Jamaican singer
15
Roger Cook
Roger Cook
English singer, songwriter and record producer
16
The Farm
The Farm
British band from Liverpool
17
Rufus
Rufus
American funk band
18
Motörhead
Motörhead
English rock band
19
The Sweet
The Sweet
British glam-rock band
20
Montrose
Montrose
California-based hard rock band
21
Mungo Jerry
Mungo Jerry
band
22
The Jaynetts
The Jaynetts
23
Blue Orchids
Blue Orchids
24
The Turtles
The Turtles
American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman
25
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
British rock band
26
Larry Wallis
Larry Wallis
English guitarist, composer and producer
27
The Shadows
The Shadows
British rock group
28
Brian Poole
Brian Poole
British singer
29
Alan Murphy
Alan Murphy
British guitarist, session musician
30
The Desert Rose Band
The Desert Rose Band
band
31
The Ikettes
The Ikettes
American vocal group; backing vocalists for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue
32
Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive
British band
33
Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson
English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer
34
Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb
band
35
Them
Them
Northern Irish band
36
Take That
Take That
British five-piece vocal pop group
37
Erasure
Erasure
British synthpop dui
38
Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits
English beat rock band formed in Manchester in 1964
39
Smokie
Smokie
English rock band
40
The Drifters
The Drifters
American R&B band (1953-)
41
A Witness
A Witness
42
Bad Company
Bad Company
English rock supergroup
43
Four Tops
Four Tops
American Motown vocal group
44
P. P. Arnold
P. P. Arnold
American soul singer, songwriter, actress
45
10cc
10cc
English art rock band
46
Juicy Lucy
Juicy Lucy
blues-rock band
47
Chicory Tip
Chicory Tip
band
48
Def Leppard
Def Leppard
British rock band
49
Simple Minds
Simple Minds
Scottish rock band formed in 1977
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The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds
English band
51
The Creation
The Creation
English rock band
52
Love Affair
Love Affair
British musical group
53
Danko Jones
Danko Jones
Canadian rock trio
54
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
English band
55
Barry Blue
Barry Blue
English singer, producer and songwriter
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The Rubettes were an English pop band put together by musician John Richardson in 1974 after the release of "Sugar Baby Love", a recording assembled of studio session musicians in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. Waddington paired the group with manager John Morris, the husband of singer Clodagh Rodgers and under his guidance, the band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage. Their first release, "Sugar Baby Love" was an instant hit remaining at number one in the United Kingdom for four weeks in May 1974, while reaching number 37 on the US chart that August, and remains their best-known record. Subsequent releases were to be less successful, but the band continued to tour well into the 2000s with two line-ups in existence.