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British Invasion

This article is about the cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s. For other uses, see British Invasion (disambiguation).

British Invasion
Part of the Swinging Sixties and the broader counterculture of the 1960s
The arrival of the Beatles in the US in 1964 marked the start of the British Invasion.[1]
Date1964–1971
LocationUnited Kingdom and United States
OutcomeBritish influence to the music of the United States

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] UK pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Dave Clark Five,[4] the Hollies, Manfred Mann,[5] Herman's Hermits, the Animals, the Zombies, the Yardbirds, the Moody Blues, the Kinks,[6] the Spencer Davis Group, Them, the Pretty Things, the Who, Small Faces, and the Bee Gees, as well as solo singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, and Donovan were at the forefront of the "invasion."[7]

Chart of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by British artists, by weeks
Chart of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by British artists, by weeks
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Britannica was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Ira A. Robbins. "British Invasion (music) – Britannica Online Encyclopædia". Britannica.com. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  3. ^ James E. Perone (2004). Music of the Counterculture Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-313-32689-9.
  4. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Dave Clark Five - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  5. ^ Petridis, Alexis (October 15, 2021). "60s hitmakers Manfred Mann: 'I've sung this 10,000 times and never liked it!'". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "The Kinks - Music Biography, Streaming Radio and Discography - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  7. ^ Perone, James E. Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. Print.

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