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Classic Rock Bands Index: Listed From A to Z

classic rock bands index

Rock and roll is here to stay

Neil Young

To create a complete list of the greatest classic rock bands that dominated and defined the 60s, 70s and 80s for you – we’d have to be researching, writing and working tirelessly to expand and update it to reflect all of the amazing artists that are yet to be featured by us. So that’s what we will do.

For the sake of posterity and to ensure that the time that you spend here at Rocks Off is as enjoyable as possible, we’ve assembled an index of bands that we think should be on the radar of every classic rock n roll fanatic.

The bands and artists are listed alphabetically from A to Z, and the links will take you through to one of our features on the site. And if they’re not included on Rocks Off yet, the link will take you directly to the band’s official website

The index is a work in progress, and like Rocks Off is constantly updated, so keep checking it and keep clicking those links, because you never know what you might find.

Thanks for spending some time with us, we hope you’ve found what you’re looking for, that you’ve enjoyed reading some of our features and we hope to see you again soon. 

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The Best Classic Rock Bands & Artists Starting With…

10CC

13th Floor Elevators

38 Special

A

A Flock Of Seagulls

AC/DC

Adam And The Ants

Aerosmith

Alanis Morissette

Alice Cooper

Alice in Chains

The Allman Brothers

Duane Allman 

America

Angelic Upstarts

Anthrax

The Animals

Asia

B

The B-52’s

Bad Brains

Bad Company

Bad Religion

Joan Baez

The Band

Syd Barret

Bauhaus

The Beatles

Captain Beefheart

Beach Boys

Black Flag

Black Oak Arkansas

Black Sabbath

Blondie

Boston

David Bowie

Bruce Hornsby

The Byrds

C

Camel

Canned Heat

Caravan

The Charlie Daniels Band

Cheap Trick

Chicago

The Cars

The Clash

The Cramps

Crazy Horse

Creedence Clearwater Revival

D

Damageplan

The Damned

The Dead Boys

Dead Kennedys

Deep Purple

Def Leppard

Neil Diamond

Ronnie James Dio

The Dictators

The Doobie Brothers 

The Doors

Duran Duran

E

The Eagles

Earth, Wind & Fire

Ed Kuepper

Electric Light Orchestra

The Electric Prunes

Emmerson, Lake And Palmer

The Everly Brothers

F

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Faith No More

Fairport Convention

Marianne Faithful

The Fifth Dimension

Fleetwood Mac

Focus

Foghat

Free

Fugazi

G

Marvin Gaye

Rory Gallagher

The Germs

Gerry and the Pacemakers

Golden Earring

Gong

The Go-Go’s

The Grateful Dead

Grand Funk Railroad

Guns ‘N’ Roses

H

Sammy Hagar

Hawkwind

Heart

Hoodoo Gurus

Hootie And The Blowfish

Hot Tuna

John Lee Hooker

Humble Pie

Ian Hunter

Husker Du

We know we’ve definitely missed some great classic rock bands and artists so far – don’t hesitate to shoot us an email with a few of your favourites that may not yet be on this list to get them inluded!

Darcy