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Rolling Stone Magazine Cover Groups

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Name the groups (including trios, duos) featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. Some covers were counted only if part of the group was featured. # of total covers and year range shown. Sorted by covers, recency, then group name. Object is most covers, not groups.

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lilcriz91

1 year ago

Crazy that Queen was never on the cover.

Klinkhamer

1 year ago

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Crazy Backstreet boys was more often on the cover than Nirvana… yada yada yada… pop/rock music = dead in the 2020s

Last edited 1 year ago by Klinkhamer

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