In the 1960’s rock music became more egalitarian than the rock and roll of the 1950’s and other popular musical styles from the preceding decades. The most popular recording artists before the sixties featured a recognizable star as the leader of the performers. Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Glenn Miller, and many others were widely known and their bands were mostly unknown musicians. Rock band from the sixties mostly had group names. The Rolling Stones, Cream, and The Beach Boys all typified naming this convention, creating a collective identity for their group and their sound that was absent in earlier eras of popular music (save for vocal groups like the Andrew Sisters). This collective identity also played out in the sound of the groups,
