The Outsiders

The Outsiders(American Band)
The Outsiders was an American rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, that was founded and led by guitarist Tom King. The band is best known for its Top 5 hit «Time Won’t Let Me» in early 1966, which peaked at #5 in the US, but the band had three other hit singles in 1966 and released a total of four albums in the mid-1960s.

Allmusic described the act’s style: «Part of the secret behind the Outsiders’ musical success lay in the group’s embellishments [with horns and strings], which slotted in perfectly with their basic three- or four-piece instrumental sound. . . . [H]owever bold and ambitious they got, one never lost the sense of a hard, solid band sound at the core. With Geraci’s magnificent singing out front, it was impossible for anyone with an ear for soul not to love how this group sounded, on their album tracks as well as their singles.
The Outsiders (British band)

The Outsiders were an early British punk rock group from Wimbledon, England. Their debut LP, Calling On Youth, was the first self-released punk album in the UK.

Adrian Borland was central to the group, manning vocals and guitar. Bob Lawrence was on bass, and Adrian ‘Jan’ Janes manned the drums. Their debut LP, Calling On Youth, was self-released on their Raw Edge label in May 1977, and won them unfavourable reviews: «apple-cheeked Ade has a complexion that would turn a Devon milkmaid green with envy», reported the NME.

An EP that November, One To Infinity, was labelled as «Tuneless, gormless, gutless…I like them a lot.» by Tony Parsons in the NME, but was praised in a less contradictory manner elsewhere.

It was followed by a second album Close Up in 1979. This received better, but still cautious, reviews from the press;[6] the NME concluded that it was a patchy album, but from «a band with a future.»

After this album, Lawrence and Janes left, and Borland went on to front the post-punk group The Sound.

The Outsiders (Dutch band)
The Outsiders were a Dutch band from Amsterdam. Their period of greatest popularity in the Netherlands was from 1965–67, but they released records until 1969. In recent years their legacy has extended beyond the Netherlands, and the group is today recognized as a distinctive progenitors of the garage rock genre.