Question Mark and the Mysterians (or ? and the Mysterians) were an American rock and roll band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1962.The group is best known for its song "96 Tears," a garage rock classic recorded in 1966 that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would go on to sell over one million copies and receive a BMI award for over three million airplays. Question Mark and the Mysterians was perhaps the first band to be described as punk rock Will Success Spoil The Frut? by Dave Marsh, Creem magazine, May 1971, and also may be the first Latino rock group to have a general audience hit record. The group named itself after the 1957 Japanese science fiction film The Mysterians, in which aliens from the destroyed planet Mysteroid arrive to conquer Earth.The band's frontman and primary songwriter was Question Mark. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez. His eccentric behavior helped to briefl

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