The Best UK Band???

[hawker]

I started pondering this recently having seen two programes that I recored recently And he answer to who arethe Bes UK-Band ever isnot quite as simple as the Beatles!! \we all havepersnal tastess but Iwatched the Whoat the Albert Hall playing Tommy and they are a great candidate a swell? Pus, the next obvious option surely has to be htose kids, the Rolling Stones!? MaybeZepelin shouldbeon he list??Whaddyall think?
A very surprising choivce is because of lerning that this blokehas outsold allartists in his lifetimeexcept for the Beates ad for Elvis!!So who is he? Errm, actually it is Cliff \richard! Amazing?? Outselling Elvis who'd hav thuk it?/
o who gets your votes please?

TIA!!

[Ant]

Iron Maiden.

[Taipan]

[Felix]

Rolling Stones

[KungFooBob]

Terrorvision

Manic Street Preaches a close 2nd.

[Druid]

Pink Floyd

[mangocrazy]

Ian Dury and the Blockheads (or the Rolling Stones, but Felix got there first).

[slowsider]

Nadine Dorries and the Fuckwits.
On tour for the next 5 weeks.

[MrLongbeard]

Iron Maiden

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The only band, UK or otherwise, I can listen to for a long period is Echo and the Bunnymen, but I think the Cult, Hawkwind and New Model Army have produced better songs.

[gremlin]

Steps

[DefTrap]

Bronski Beat

[Saga Lout]

Gary Glitter and the Glitter Band.

No contest.

[Yambo]

Elastic

[Yorick]

There was a poll in 2005 to determine the best "dream" supergroup asking people to vote for the best singer, the best guitarist, the best bassist, and the best drummer of all time.

Best bassist - John Paul Jones
Best singer - Robert Plant
Best guitarist - Jimmy Paige

(can you see where this is going ?)

Best drummer John Bonham

[Supermofo]

For me, The Wildhearts. Hands down over every other band on the planet ever. But that's the thing taste is in the eye of the beholder.

Beatles, Stones etc wouldn't even come in my top 20 UK bands I reckon. Off the top of my head ahead of them would be
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
The Almighty
The Cult
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Black Spiders
Enter Shikari
Etc,Etc...

[The Martian]

Goldie Lookin' Chain

[KungFooBob]

Goldie Lookin' Chain

You knows it!

[DefTrap]

Best guitarist - Jimmy Paige

I don't think even Jimmy Page thinks Jimmy Page is the best guitarist.

[Saga Lout]

The Beatles,
The Stones
and Queen are always on my list.
also Cream

(I'm honestly surprised nobody's mentioned Queen so far.)

Was Spinal Tap a UK band?


Edited to add Cream and Spinal Tap