Ok I'm pissed.
Emerson Lake and Plamer?
SuperTramp?
Among others and NOT 1 Person mentions the greatest R&R band ever?????
The KINKS
Then also needed on the list of a true Classic rocker:
Meatloaf
The Beach Boys
Simon and Garfunkel (more folkish rock)
Mamas and the Papas
The Yardbirds
The Byrds
The Hollies
Rod Stewart
Paul McCartney/ Wings
John Lennon
George Harrison
The Traveling Wilburys
Guns and Roses
.38 Special
William Martin Joel (AKA Billy)
Neil Young
Eric Burdon and the Animals
The Ramones
Blondie
Berlin
Zappa
Jefferson Airplane/ Starship
America
The Guess Who
Berlin
Pat Benatar
Joan Jett
Def Leppard
The Scorpions (big cult following and HUGE in their native Europe)
Journey
Styx
Kansas
Jan and Dean
ELO
Ozzy
Motorhead
King Crimson
War
Billy Idol
Early greats:
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
George Thorogood (I know later but much of his stuff is his artistic coverage of Berry/ Richard/ some Hank Sr. turned rock etc.)
Jerry Lee Lewis
Roy Orbison
Motown greats (of course some classify it as R&B but they were considered and played as Rock in the day):
The Temptations
Marvin Gaye
The Supremes
Smoky Robinson
Phil Specter's Wall of Sound
The Commodores/ Lionel Ritchie
James Brown