Your post sent me looking for their rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame performance, which I’d never seen. It was pretty good overall , but Bun E Carlos, man did he still have it.
I saw them live once, I really enjoyed that as well.
They are all old and\or dead. Those that are alive and not retired, should retire. It’s a young person’s game.
There’s a version or remnant still touring/recording of pretty much all of my favorite bands in high school except the Ramones.
Alan Parsons Project: Re-formed into the Alan Parsons Live Project after Alan and Eric Woolfson parted ways, and is still touring. I’ve got tickets to see them again in August.
OMD just announced it is going on tour next year. I just got a notice that they’ll be in the Bay Area on May 24. I’m tempted.
Prince. Dead
Tom Petty. Dead
Eurythmics. Still alive, but stopped touring. They were active 1980-1990 and then 1999-2005, with a few one-off reunions.
Duran Duran. After a lot of changes, the current line up is the same as when I was in high school, except they have Dominic Brown as the guitarist, but not exactly a member.
U2. Same as always. Got on a U2 kick a few weeks ago.
Dagnabbit. Now I’ve got “Mysterious Ways” (U2) as an ear worm. Need to get “Don’t Come Around Here No More” (Tom Petty) back in the forefront.
I just missed being a contemporary of Rachmaninoff by 2.5 years.
Let’s see, still going/going again:
The Cure, still going strong, Robert Smith still in full force when I saw them a couple years ago
A-Ha - still touring, going great
PIL - still putting out good albums, Johnny’s been spending more time looking after his sick wife.
New Order - also still making albums. Hook, the bassist, left.
Bauhaus - broke up, Peter Murphy solo and Love&Rockets were both good, got back together
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - still going great, but lost Blixa Bargeld which is not ideal, but…
Einsturzende Neubauten - still great.
Depeche Mode - still seem to be doing fine, not really followed them since the 90s
and then not
The Smiths - broke up, Marr’s done some great solo stuff recently after years of being the go-to guitar god for lots of groups I like, don’t know what Mozz is doing and don’t care.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - broke up, The Creatures followup was good.
Cocteau Twins - broke up, Robin Guthrie solo stuff is good.
My favorite broke up long ago, but anyways - happy 79th birthday, (Sir) Paul McCartney!
See, new wave was just kicking off when I started college, and with that the old order was swept away, so I had to think long and hard about what I was actually listening to in high school. I got
Genesis - Peter Gabriel is still plowing his own furrow; for the rest, the less said the better.
Bowie - dead.
T Rex - Bolan is very long dead.
The Faces - Rod Stewart has been an embarrassment for decades. Ronnie Wood is a Rolling Stone. The rest of them? Who knows.
Mott The Hoople - Ian Hunter is 82. Good God. Wikipedia describes him as still active.
Steely Dan - Becker dead, Fagan still alive.
As an aside, I notice that almost all were British - we were much more parochial then, to the extent that, living in the far north west of England, and despite months of persistence, I never was able to order a copy of the first Steely Dan album. It is a record that I have never owned.
j
Let’s see:
The Cure - a thousand line-up changes since then, but still going strong. Last saw them in 2000, and it was one of the best shows I’ve been to.
The Smiths - disbanded while I was still in school. Morrissey still a pretentious prick.
Depeche Mode - lost Alan Wilder, still on the road and making albums, though I’ve lost interest in the new stuff around 1995.
U2 - still active in the original line-up. Last good album was Zooropa, then they lost me. Bono still a pretentious prick.
Metallica----I can’t believe I forgot them. They had the same line up from 1986 to 2001–James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammet, and James Newsted. Newsted left in 2001. I am not big fan of their work post The Black Album released in 1991. Load -1996- and Reload -1997- were alright. But after that much of their later work is reviled. They are still touring. Apparently Miley Cyrus (of all people) has announced she is recording an album of Metallica covers which sounds like a vanity project and a huge trainwreck.
Depeche Mode is still going and their non-nosebleed seats are too rich for my blood. 
Heh. Phil Collins is front and center in this month’s Texas Monthly magazine.
Chicago: Still around and touring, but no Terry Kath or Peter Cetera.
Eagles: Still around and touring, but only Don Henley is the only member of the band today and back in high school days (Joe Walsh is on the border).
Good points. But I definitely vote Bono.
j
Jesus H Christ, he is too:
The less said…
j
Well, I go for Morrissey as the bigger asshole. A lot speaks against Bono, but at least he’s unsuspicious for racism.
Most of the bands I liked in high school have already been mentioned.
One that hasn’t is Kansas. They weren’t one of my top favorites but they were big the year I was a senior and I had their Leftoverture album.
So I’m surprised to see on Wikipedia that they released a new album last year and had been doing a fortieth anniversary tour before the pandemic shut it down.
He doesn’t actually come off too bad in the article; he comes across very much as a really eager enthusiast with a whole lot of money who was misled, or that’s how I read it. There were definitely much, much shadier characters involved, that’s for sure.