Original sentence: Most of the leading UK pop groups of the period — including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who — regularly covered Stax and Motown tracks on record or in concert, and all have acknowledged the influence of Motown and Stax artists on their own music.Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included The Spencer Davis Group (featuring singer-organist Steve Winwood) and archetypal mod band The Small Faces, whose sound was heavily influenced by the Stax label's house band Booker T & the MGs
Edited sentence: Most of the leading UK pop groups of the period including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who regularly covered Stax and Motown tracks on record and/or in concert and all have repeatedly acknowledged the crucial influence of Motown and Stax recordings and artists on their own music.Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included The Spencer Davis Group (featuring prodigiously talented teenage singer-organist Steve Winwood) and archetypal Mod band The Small Faces, whose sound was heavily influenced by the Stax label's house band Booker T & the MGs.The trend reached a peak of popular recognition in Europe in 1967 with the Stax Soul Revue's now-legendary UK/European tour, which featured electrifying performances by the leading Stax performers of the day including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and Booker T & the MGs