Best Rock bands with a female front

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Bachman-Turner Overdrive?

Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers?
Bruced SPringsteringer and the E-street band?

Annie Lennox is in the band The Eurythmics? She is/was the Eurythmics.
ELO replacable parts, Jeff Lynne was the band

I guess the problem I have is that some artists are the band, the other parts easily replaced and others are not.

Pure Band...
Rush
ZZ Top
Steely Dan (Donald Fagan needs his guitarists or its not the same)

Petty is an artist, and the Heart Breakers are his band. When it's a name AND the band then it's a little tougher to discern as they are more of a band, but Tom Petty is still a solo artist in that sense. Same with Bruce. There is no Alanis Morissette and the Screaming Banshees....that would pose the same quandry. Luckily, we've been spared and she's just a solo artist.

The Eurythmics are a band, whether Annie was irreplaceable or not, a band is a band is a band. Look what happened to 10,000 maniacs when Natalie Merchant left. She MADE the band. But they were still a band, and they replaced her and the 10,000 Maniacs still existed as a band....they just sucked without her.

It's all in the name really.