Buddy Holly and The Crickets.
The Shadows.
There'd be no Beatles without them.
Yes I know that to be true - but as with the other reply naming Elvis & Robert Johnson, I was adding to influencesChuck Berry isn't a band
Surprised nobody's mentioned Val Doonican.Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker.
* B.B. King
without them you aint got no beatles or rolling stones.