Are we talking about RnR Hall of FAME or RnR Hall of CONTRIBUTION?

FAME: Madonna is famous, although I personally don't think she's a musician at all. She said herself that she doesn't know how to sing, she appeared in more movies than she has albums, blah-blah. IMHO her main occupation in life is to provoke people, to tear down the still alive taboos about sex and war and violence, and she's very good at it. Lady Gaga is continuing her work in the 21st century.

CONTRIBUTION: The Beatles started off as a boy-band, but managed to get out of that story in less than 4 years, fell apart some 3-4 years afterwards. But they still influence a whole new series of bands and solo artists. More than 40 years since they are no more, articles are still being written about pretty much any part of their career - The Beetlemania, Sgt Pepper's Summer of Love (of course, I have no doubt that I will never truly understand what all of that was about, since I wasn't born until 1980)...

Either way, the list of bands/solo artist I listen to most of the time is as follows (in more or less no order at all):

1. Black Sabbath
2. Iron Maiden
3. Metallica
4. Deep Purple
5. P!nk
6. The Beatles
7. The Rolling Stones
8. Elvis Presley
9. The Cardigans
10. Adele
11. Guns N' Roses
12. Led Zeppelin
13. Pink Floyd
14. Queen
15. Sex Pistols
16. The Ramones
17. Blondie
18. The White Stripes / Jack White
19. Oasis
20. The Sisers Of Mercy
21. Jimi Hendrix
22. Gary Moore
23. Judas Priest
24. The Clash
25. Riblja Corba*

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* Riblja Corba - Serbian / ex YU RnR band. Maybe I should've put more of those on the list, but let it be...