“No Buddy Holly! No Chuck Berry!! No Elvis!! No Jerry Lee Lewis!!”
What’s up with that?
Chuck Berry was hardly a frontman for a band. He was a solo performer.
Story: back in the 1970s Berry came into PHX to play a concert. He didn’t have his own band-—he hired one in town, friends of mine. They were a nine-piece horn band.
When he arrived at the rehearsal, the day of the event, he said, “I don’t need horns” and fired the horn players. He said, “I don’t use keyboards,” and fired the keyboard player. He said to the guitarist, “I don’t need another guitar.” He played the gig with just the bass player & drummer.
I also heard he demanded his $$ in cash, in a bag, at the end of the event.
Those guys did not so much as front a band as were single acts. Is it fair? No. But that’s probably the way most of those polled viewed it.