Will there ever again be a band as big as the Beatles or the Stones?

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Portrait of the The Beatles in a narrow painted-brick corridor
Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, in about 1965. Photograph: Bettmann Archive

The 2020s have seen many individual pop artists make it big: Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Harry Styles. But the charts are not full of bands the way they used to be. Is the era of the all-conquering group that puts its stamp on popular culture (Abba, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles) over, never to return? Dominique Perrault, Cannes

Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday.


 

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