This list was begun in the summer of 2006. Someone on the Classic Rock group brought up a post showing off Time/Life's Top 100 Rock N' Rollers list. Naturally everyone complained about it. It was then brought up that the group should come up with it's own list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time.
Thus, the project of making the first ever list made by, what would become, the Rock University group was born. Over that summer and fall and winter, nearly 25 members of the original Classic Rock group (who would later leave to form the present Rock University group) contributed lists of their own 100 Greatest Artists lists. The votes were tallied and the final list came to be. It was presented in the Rock University group over New Year's week in 2007.
At some point in the future, the present Rock University members will make a new list that better represents our group in it's current incarnation. But for now, this will do. Here is the original list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock N' Roll. Enjoy.