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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Readers reply: will there ever again be a band as big as the Beatles or the Stones?

Black and white portrait of the very young Stones in narrow-legged trousers and collarless jackets and short hair
The Rolling Stones’ first official photoshoot, in 1963. Photograph: Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns

The 2020s have seen many individual pop artists make it big: Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Harry Styles. But the charts are not full of bands the way they used to be. Is the era of the all-conquering group that puts its stamp on popular culture (Abba, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles) over, never to return? Dominique Perrault, Cannes

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