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America are a British-American rock band formed in London in 1970 by US artists Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley. The trio met as sons of US Air Force personnel stationed in London, where they began performing live.
Dec 16, 2023 · published 16 December 2023. America evoked the wild romance of the West with timeless melodies and harmonies – and served up a 70s soft rock classic in the process. (Image credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images) They won’t leave him alone.
Jul 7, 2019 · Sunday Morning. America, the band, still touring after 50 years. July 7, 2019 / 10:13 AM EDT / CBS News. "Ventura Highway" was a very big summer song back in the 70's for the band that's...
Jan 1, 2014 · Music. How the Beatles Took America: Inside the Biggest Explosion in Rock & Roll History. When Fab Four landed in a country mourning the death of John F. Kennedy, they faced media disdain and a...
Jul 12, 2017 · DK: How did America form as a band? Dewey Bunnell : Gerry, Dan and I were American teenagers going to school in England, and I graduated from an American high school there in 1969. Our fathers were stationed at the U.S. Air Force Base near London.
Jan 24, 2014 · Jan. 24, 2014, at 2:50 p.m. How America Changed the Beatles. More. AP. The Beatles were nervous about coming to America. A solo trip to Illinois in September 1963 had guitarist George Harrison...
American DJ Alan Freed claimed to have coined the term rock and roll, though he did not. Wikimedia By the early 1950s in the United States, several forms of music were combined, absorbed into a new genre, including gospel, country, jazz, the boogie-woogie sounds of the jitterbug, and others.
