While not everyone will agree with this practice, the rock bands below owe some of their greatest hits to outsiders.

The concept of the “greatest hits” record is a surprisingly new invention. The world’s first greatest hits compilation was released on this day, March 15, 1958, by pop and jazz artist Johnny ...

Former Rolling Stone music editor Mark Kemp wrote that if The Remains, a little-known group from New England, hadn’t broken up in 1966, “we might today be calling them—and not the Stones ...