# Need Names of Successful Anglo-American Bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943 "2005-07-18T04:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/1 "2005-07-18T04:04:23Z")
How many successful musical groups can you think of that have had both English & American members? A few that come to mind: Fleetwood Mac King Crimson (80’s to present version) Monkees Pretenders Any others come to mind? ---
**Author:** ![painter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@painter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/painter)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/2 "2005-07-18T04:29:15Z")
Crosby, Stills and Nash. You can add Neil Young if you want. He’s Canadian, and a subject of the Queen. ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/3 "2005-07-18T04:34:08Z")
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/4 "2005-07-18T04:52:59Z")
Foreigner, right? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/5 "2005-07-18T05:42:21Z")
Shirley Manson from Garbage is Scottish, but the rest of the band members are from the US. Though I doubt she’d appreciate being called _English_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/6 "2005-07-18T09:42:05Z")
The Doors in their 21st century incarnation (Ian Astbury, Ray Manzarek, and Robbie Krieger). The Who, post 1979 (keyboardist Jon ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick is American). The Police - Stewart Copeland is American-born though he grew up in the UK. British session pianist Nicky Hopkins played on a number of Jefferson Airplane albums. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/7 "2005-07-18T10:14:25Z")
Katrina and the Waves - two Americans and two Brits whose first album contract was with a Canadian recording company. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/8 "2005-07-18T12:22:36Z")
The Travelling Wilburys – Harrison was British; the rest, Yanks. Traffic – 1971-72, when they used Jim Gordon and later Barry Beckett (both American) as their drummer. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/9 "2005-07-19T04:20:11Z")
Are we including Ireland, too? If so, then I nominate Thin Lizzy. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/10 "2005-07-19T07:23:50Z")
The original lineup of **Rainbow** consisted of Ritchie Blackmore (ex-Deep Purple, UK) on guitar, New York native Ronnie James Dio on vocals, and the rest of Dio’s band Elf. By the second album, Ritchie fired all the Elf people (except Dio) and replaced them with mostly British musicians. Since then the band has been a revolving door of mostly British musicians and American singers. R.J. Dio also fronted Black Sabbath on two very influential albums. Dio’s own solo band consisted of himself, two Brits (Jimmy Bain & Vinnie Appice) and an Irishman (Vivian Campbell). After that the lineups get a bit messy… ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/11 "2005-07-19T10:53:12Z")
**Jethro Tull’s** drummer (Doane Perry) is American. He’s been with them a good couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/12 "2005-07-19T11:12:41Z")
**Judas Priest’s** drummer, Scott Travis is an American. He’s been with the band since 1989. Admittedly, this is after their peak. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-names-of-successful-anglo-american-bands/312943/13 "2005-07-19T11:19:12Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The Travelling Wilburys – Harrison was British; the rest, Yanks. [nitpick] [Jeff Lynne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lynne) is also a Brit. [/nitpick]