I can agree with JVM about the notion of "classic". Those bands mentioned are above half a century old and we still listen to them. They're classic because their work oozed into the average and general notion of music. They basically create history now and when thinking of modern music their names pop up in everybody's mind. It's hard to trace how this fame evolved for them because it definitely not
just their music.
And that's when we arrive to the present situation. The bands you mentioned are basically iconic because they were there creating their own unique stuff when other things were happening as well. The solid body electric guitar was invented, blues origins were transmitted into a whole new type of music. Beatles was basically one of the first bands creating successful "pop" music and was also one of the bands that made the foundation of today's band-formats popular.
What I mean is that today it's much harder to get "classic" because the foundations for modern music we like today (and basically what became a convention as well) have been already settled by these artist. Even though there are plenty of unique stuff (in terms of music, exotic instruments etc.) out there, we don't need to mark new historic periods with iconic figures anymore.
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