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]
Date
1964–1967[1]
Location
United Kingdom and United States
Outcome
British 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, the Who, the Kinks,[4] the Zombies, Small Faces, the Dave Clark Five,[5] The Spencer Davis Group, Herman's Hermits, the Hollies, the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, the Yardbirds, Them, and Manfred Mann,[6] as well as solo singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Tom Jones and Donovan, were at the forefront of the "invasion".[7]
Chart of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by British artists, by weeks
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^Ira A. Robbins. "British Invasion (music) – Britannica Online Encyclopædia". Britannica.com. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
^James E. Perone (2004). Music of the Counterculture Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-313-32689-9.
^Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "The Kinks - Music Biography, Streaming Radio and Discography - AllMusic". AllMusic.
^Unterberger, Richie. "The Dave Clark Five - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic.
^Petridis, Alexis (October 15, 2021). "60s hitmakers Manfred Mann: 'I've sung this 10,000 times and never liked it!'". The Guardian.
^Perone, James E. Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. Print.
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