NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) -- The Beatles have ranked tops in Rolling Stone magazine's list of immortal musicians, a compilation voted on by music's most popular stars.
"They arrived sounding like nothing else," rocker Elvis Costello wrote in his Fab Four tribute published in the current Rolling Stone.
"Every record was a shock," he also said.
Editors at Rolling Stone asked 55 musicians, critics, music historians and industry executives to name the most important musicians in the first 50 years of rock and roll.
Of the 125 submitted names, a list of 20 garnered the most votes.
After the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles made up the Top 10.
U2's Bono described the third-ranking Presley as the "blueprint for rock 'n' roll."
Little Richard, who placed eighth, got a boost by voting for himself.
"I don't think I ever got what I really deserved," he said.
