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Sixty-two years after their first album release and albums released in 7 different decades. Pretty amazing.

Wondering who else might be in this elite club I turned to Claude for an answer:

Deep Purple — Shades of Deep Purple (1968) through =1 (2024). [My Edit - Missed Splat released this month]

Yes — Yes (1969) through Mirror to the Sky (2023)

Santana — Santana (1969) through Blessings and Miracles (2021)

Chicago — Chicago Transit Authority (1969) through Born for This Moment (2022)

The Temptations — early Motown LPs through Temptations 60 (2022)

The Oak Ridge Boys — gospel/country group with an unbroken release run since the 1960s

Kool & the Gang — 1969 debut through Perfect Union (2021)


Eight decades (arguably)

The Isley Brothers — Shout! (1959) through Make Me Say It Again, Girl (2022), with releases in every decade between

The Blind Boys of Alabama — recording since the 1940s, still releasing (Echoes of the South, 2023), though their earliest output was singles rather than albums

Near misses worth noting: The Who (no 1990s studio album), Pink Floyd (nothing in the 2000s), The Beach Boys (gap in the 2000s), Jethro Tull (gap in the 2010s), Fleetwood Mac (gap in the 2010s). Each has the longevity but a decade with no studio release.

The counting gets slippery — lineup continuity, whether live/compilation albums count, and whether a “band” name carrying on with one original member still counts. Under strict rules (studio albums, one release per decade, continuous act), Deep Purple, Yes, and the Isleys are the strongest peers to the Stones.

 

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