Who were the “Big Four” bands of the British invasion?

In the early 1960s, British bands and singers swarmed the US charts, in an unprecedented musical invasion. But who were the ...
The Guardian

Tiny Nigerian museum marking a forgotten British invasion pushes for recognition

Museum in Koko, Niger Delta, commemorates important exiled merchant prince Nanna Olomu – but it has no cooling and a termite issue In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten ...
The Guardian

Gobsmacked! by Ben Yagoda review – the British invasion of American English

After years of seemingly one-way traffic, anglicisms from ginger to kerfuffle are having their moment stateside There is a scene in the 1999 British romcom Notting Hill that nicely illustrates the ...
American Songwriter

3 British Invasion Covers of Motown Hits That We Love

In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...
American Songwriter

3 Eternal British Invasion Standalone Singles That Will Play Forever

In the 1960s, the British were coming. Well, musically speaking, of course. While the blues, R&B and rock and roll were invented in America (largely by Black Americans), those records made their way ...
Yahoo

The British Invasion: From the Beatles to the Stones, The Sixties Belonged to Britain

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rolling Stones in Marble Arch Car Park circa 1963. - Credit: Fiona Adams/Redferns Early in 1964, Life magazine put it like ...
The Daily Campus

British Invasion: Still bringing it

Today, we’re bringing the boom. Welcome back to another edition of British Invasion, the column that dives into British music history. Today’s programming will be on the blues boom of the 1960’s (and ...