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The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom [2] and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. [3]
- 1964–1967
- British influence to the music of the United States
- United Kingdom and United States
British Invasion, musical movement of the mid-1960s composed of British rock-and-roll groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the United States. The bands included the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Troggs, the Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, and the Spencer Davis Group.
- Ira A. Robbins
The music of early '64, when the Beatles invaded American culture. Early-to-mid-'60s UK rock oldies.
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Jul 14, 1988 · The British Invasion: From the Beatles to the Stones, The Sixties Belonged to Britain ... The British music industry was rigidly controlled by the BBC and London’s Denmark Street music publishers.
Jun 12, 2020 · In the mid-‘60s, at the height of the British Invasion, many teen bedrooms in America celebrated their new love of British pop culture and music. This example of a teen bedroom from suburban California circa 1965 includes many Beatlemania and British Invasion objects popular at the time.
British Invasion. The British Invasion was a phenomenon that occurred in the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom, as well as other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States, and significant to the rising “counterculture” on both sides of the Atlantic. Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles ...
Between 1964 and 1966, the British bands dominated the American charts, as well as the charts in the U.K. In that time, there was a second wave of British Invasion bands -- such as the Who and the Zombies -- which was indebted to both American rock and British Invasion pop.
