Metal Boxes

Spider Vinyl

Eight years in a flooded cellar.

Immortality

I shouldn't be surprised. Almost every one of these artistes is still performing, at least the ones who aren't dead. And even counting the dead ones, I think only four don't have an official website.
Amazingly still active: Kursaal Flyers, Heavy Metal Kids, Edgar Broughton Band, Babe Ruth. But not Mallard or If.

NME Encyclopedia of Rock

In 1976 these people were so famous they were in an actual encyclopedia. Six years later they didn't even rate a historical footnote. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Points for discussion: why Mallard and If were not dropped for the third edition, why the United States of America were in the first edition at all, and why Abba and Gene Vincent weren't.

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Bands and solo artists included in the first edition of the Illustrated New Musical Express Encyclopedia of Rock (Salamander 1976), but not in the third edition, simply called the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock (Salamander 1982).

David Ackles
Babe Ruth
Back Door
Banco
Mike Batt
Ronee Blakley
Blodwyn Pig
Brewer and Shipley
Budgie
David Cassidy
Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
Chapman Whitney (Streetwalkers)
Colosseum
Curved Air
Lesley Duncan
Edgar Broughton Band
John Fahey
Fanny
Richard and Mimi Farina
Michael Fennelly
Foghat
Fruup
Art Garfunkel
Gentle Giant
Dana Gillespie
Golden Earring
Ric(k) Grech
Stefan Grossman
Claire Hamill
Hatfield And The North
Heavy Metal Kids (The Kids)
Hudson-Ford
Isotope
Lee Jackson
Jo Jo Gunne
Joy of Cooking
KGB
Kilburn and the High Roads
Kursaal Flyers
Jim Kweskin (Jug Band)
Lulu
Magma
Harvey Mandel
George Melly
Geoff Muldaur
Fred Neil
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Pavlov's Dog
PFM
Shawn Phillips
Jean-Luc Ponty
Terry Reid
John Renbourn
Rhinoceros
Terry Riley
Jess Roden
Sea Train
Pete Seeger
Slapp Happy
Sons of Champlin
Chip Taylor
United States of America
Van Der Graaf Generator
Vinegar Joe
Clifford T Ward
Howard Werth
Paul Williams
Pete Wingfield
Bobby Womack
Tammy Wynette