The 1960s British Music Invasion Rock swept Britain. By 1964, Greater London could claim the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, the Kinks, the Pretty Things, Dusty Springfield, the Dave Clark Five, Peter and Gordon, Chad and Jeremy, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and Manfred Mann. Manchester had the Hollies, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Freddie and the Dreamers, Davy Jones of The Monkees, and Hermans Hermits; Newcastle was home to the Animals; and Birmingham had the Spencer Davis Group(featuring Steve Winwood) and the Moody Blues. Bands sprang up from Belfast (Them, with frontman Van Morrison) to St Albans (the Zombies), with more inventive artists arriving to keep the syles moving forward, including the Small Faces, the Move, the Creation, the Troggs, Donovan, and Johns Children. While the beat boom provided Britons relief from the postimperial humiliation of hand-me-down rock, the Beatles and their ilk brought the United States more than credible simulations. They arrived as foreign ambassadors, with distinctive accents (in conversation only; American and British singers sounded generally similar), slang, fashions, and personalities. The Beatles first film, A Hard Days Night (1964), further painted England as the center of the (rock) universe. American media took the bait and made Carnaby Street, Londons trendy fashion center in the mid-1960s, a household name. From 1964 to 1966 the United Kingdom sent a stream of hits across the Atlantic. Behind the conquering Beatles, Peter and Gordon (A World Without Love), the Animals (House of the Rising Sun), Manfred Mann (Do Wah Diddy Diddy), Petula Clark (Downtown), Freddie and the Dreamers (Im Telling You Now), Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (Game of Love), Hermans Hermits (Mrs. Brown Youve Got a Lovely Daughter), the Rolling Stones (I Cant Get No Satisfaction and others), the Troggs (Wild Thing), and Donovans (Sunshine Superman) all topped Billboards singles chart.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:23:00 +0000
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