[WillowTheWhisp]

The Sex Pistols rock and roll?
The Beatles rock and roll?

The above are representatives of two totally different musical genres.

Woody, at 16 and a Beatles fan how can you criticise Gayle for being a Cliff Richard fan and not being around in his hey day? That strikes me as somewhat ironic.

Personally there are others I prefer above those you have mentioned. Why limit the selection to those three? What about the Rolling Stones? The Kinks? Manfred Mann?

I do tend to agree with you on one point, that I prefer people who actually play instruments to be classed as musicians rather than vocalists who are precicely that - vocalists, and as for "boy bands" the word "band" is a total misnomer when none of them play a musical instrument. "group" would be more appropriate and yet us old fogies used to call them groups in our day when they did play their own instruments.

Out of those 3 I picked The Beatles and yet my favourite song at the mo is by Oasis. (go figure)