I stand corrected.

All of them must have made boatloads from Appetite alone. No wonder Steven managed to party for 25 years straight.

We don't really know that they died at the end of 3. The easiest way out of this would be to just say the machines kept them alive somehow and injected them into tubes. The deal at the end of 3 was that the Matrix would continue to exist. The drama would then be that something about this has gone wrong and become evil, the usual. Let's not forget that the end line of Revolutions is that we will see Neo again.

Your rankings are interesting. I was listening to Fleetwood Mac the other day and thought "this is great but it lacks that little extra to make them on the level of Stones, Zeppelin and GN'R".

Generally I split the good bands into two categories, the all timers and those who are merely great. To be an all timer you have to catch the attention of the whole world while also making credible music. Mac is certainly credible but lacks range. Go Your Own Way is about the only time they crossed into proper rock territory, preferring to stay in popland and dare say, play it safe. To think what Stevie Nicks could do with a voice like that. For the same reason I can't put AC/DC up there. The best at what they do but it just becomes limited in the long run compared with multi talented bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. 

That being said Pink Floyd might deserve to be on a level of their own. Zeppelin or GN'R never made anything as good as Dark Side of the Moon. That album is just magical.

My favorite aspect of Pink Floyd is that essentially they were four guys who were all a bit clueless about music. Barrett was doing everything creatively. And none of them are great technical players either. As a result their first few albums without him are pretty poor. They were still learning their craft. By the time the 70s arrived they had started to find their groove. Atom Heart Mother is a mixed bag but Meddle is a legitimate record. Lots of good pop songs which is unique for a Floyd album and the 20 minute closer "Echoes" is our first taste of what would become their trademark sound. The band doing that gig at Pompeii is about to record one of the greatest albums of all time and they are flying as high as you would expect.