I guess for DEI purposes they were left out.
As for The Partridges and Monkees, they had some great songs.
Have fun it is saturday.
The Rolling Stones should be on the list. Or are they a band that just sucks?
The dirty little secret is that plenty of your favorite bands received help from studio pros when they went to record, particularly with the bass and drum parts, but even guitar solos.
These studio ringers would receive a one-time fee, no album credit (other than in the "thanks" section on the liner notes) and would keep their mouths shut, knowing that if they ever spilled the beans that your favorite band's drummer didn't actually play on the album, they'd never work again.
“…by ambitious producers looking for the next Big Sensation. “
This was never more so than during the Sixties. There were so many “sounds” coming and going so quickly it was unbelievable.
Blues Brothers was full of real musicians and was a band. So adding that one to this “list” is kind of silly but then often these lists are just contrived clickbait anyway.
But I’ll play along — one exposed fake band with lots of drama was Boney M. Many never heard of them but if you were in a disco in the disco era you heard their songs.
Boney M was a front for Frank Farian a disco producer. He recorded material and then found people whose looks he liked to form the touring band and lip sync to the material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.
I always thought Kiss was a fake band.
Eddie and the Cruisers, On the Dark Side
The Monkees were not fake, they just recorded a bunch of songs most of which they didn’t write, and some of their cover versions were hits. May as well call Linda Ronstadt fake, particularly since she’s never written a song.
Of course, now that Mike Nesmith has passed, the band is now The Monkee.
Strangest band name I’ve seen was in the 70’s I believe Ultimate Spinach they had at least one album I know of.
KISS. They were not really a band. More like a marketing firm. They knew two chords.
“The Banana Spits”
What would a banana spit? They don’t even have seeds.
