Mick Hartley

The Four Tops, live in Paris, 1967:

Levi Stubbs on lead, with Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and Lawrence Payton.

The Four Tops were exceptional in that the same four personnel stayed together for over four decades, from their founding in 1953 as the Four Aims, right through the golden Motown years, up to 1997 when Payton died. Despite being the most prominent member of the group, Stubbs refused to have separate billing (in contrast to other Motown acts such as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and Diana Ross and the Supremes), and turned down several offers for a solo career, out of loyalty to his bandmates. 

Still going, but with Fakir the only surviving member.