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View Poll Results: The Most Influential Rock Artist
The Rolling Stones 12 3.74%
The Beatles 152 47.35%
The Who 12 3.74%
Led Zeppelin 28 8.72%
The Kinks 4 1.25%
Bob Dylan 41 12.77%
Jim Hendrix 37 11.53%
The Velvet Underground 35 10.90%
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Old 03-14-2012, 02:31 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Elvis Presley, from as objective a POV as possible. No one's ever towered over music like he did in the 50s. The Beatles, Velvet Underground and The Stooges are also very influential on the artists that followed, but Elvis popularized rock. Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and others were very good, but Elvis dwarfed everyone else in popularity.
Popular and influential aren't really the same thing though.
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