Bloody good bands

[Dorcus]

I would say Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas were very much first half of sixties acts (as were the Searchers who were maybe the third biggest after the Beatles and the Stones at one time) and then the Yardbirds, Doors etc. appeared in the second half of the sixties, while the likes of the Who, Kinks and Hollies remained big for all but the first few years of the decade.

Moody Blues became very popular mid way into the Sixties.