Question

2) What is the British Invasion? What does the term refer to? What bands were part of the British Invasion other than the Beatles (list three)

Answer 1

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when United Kingdom rock and pop music acts and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "contraculture" on both sides of the Atlantic. The "invasion" was at the forefront of pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits, the Zombies and the Animals.

In the late 1950s, American rock and roll and blues musicians ' rebellious sound and image became popular with British youth. While early commercial attempts to replicate American rock and roll mostly failed, Lonnie Donegan produced two top 10 hits in the US with the trad jazz-inspired skiffle craze, with its do it yourself attitude. Young British bands began to combine different British and American styles in different parts of the UK, such as the Merseybeat movement in Liverpool or the "beat boom"