was browsing through the Lonnie Donegan thread, and came upon the (pretty accurate, I think) comment, 'No Lonnie, No Beatles'

which got me thinking, so I did a search, and was dumbfounded, stammergastered, flummoxed, knock-me-over-with-a-feather, still can't believe it, there is no thread archived that contains this man's name? On a (supposedly) predominantly Blues oriented site?

No Alexis Koerner/Blues Incorporated,

no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Animals, no Yardbirds no Led Zeppelin no Rod Stewart maybe no Them/Van Morrison no British Invasion at all & no gigs for Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, etc. & no career for hundreds of American blues musicians

I say long live Alexis Koerner and thanks.