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Originally Posted by marcop
I'd argue the Beatles weren't a rock band--they started off as a pop band and went off and sort of created their own category. I'd vote The Who first, Stones second.
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Their early stuff was white teenagers doing 'race music', British Buddy Hollies.
They definitely transformed into a genre of their own, musical sponges and chameleons. We haven't seen anything like them in the past 50 years and maybe never will.