I've had a quick look to see if this has been mentioned already, elsewhere on tFB and can't see anything so I thought I'd draw attention to it.
Apologies, if I've missed something and duplicated a thread.
Anyway, Auntie Beeb in its wisdom seems to run these voting polls regularly and then share the results in a compilation programme at some point, do I'll be interested to see the outcome of this one.
I'm gonna mull this over for a day or so then vote ... I haven't even read the rules/spiel yet but here's the link in case you are remotely interested and wish to vote, or even just watch for the results:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3wZzK0bfjZqW0FPrGCzCJTF/vote-for-your-ultimate-british-group
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Beatles
Stones
Pink Floyd
Stone Roses
Radiohead
but Police, dire straits, kinks, smiths and the jam were equally worthy of a place.
Bananarama, though?!
Maiden and Sabbath should definitely be on there too.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
* The Stones
* The Beatles, and
* The Who
would be laughable. For the final two places, I'm torn between
* 10cc
* The Police, and
* Fleetwood Mac
However there is one inclusion so unexpected that it is hilariously funny - the Bee Gees. Yep, they were born in England, but they were very much an Australian band for the first half of their long career, then moved to the US and became very much an American band.
Still, where do you draw a line? Put it this way, it would never, ever have occurred to me to call the Bee Gees "British", and it has never, ever occurred to me to call Fleetwood Mac and the Police anything else.