Beatles

The British Invasion was an exciting musical event.

I can remember hearing "My Generation" (The Who) on the radio and immediately pestering my folks to buy me a Fender bass.(John Entwhistle played the first bass solo on a top 40 hit).

I see a lot of people getting the British Invasion acts wrong. No, Pink Floyd isn't B.I. Yes, the Searchers are.

I think the main factor that fueled the invasion was the fact that British teenagers fell in love with American R&B and Blues. Even the Beatles played nothing but ,in their Cavern Club days.

The first few Stones albums had a ton of Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, Larry Williams, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke,etc.

The Animals scored a huge hit with an old American folk song, "The House Of The Rising Sun"

Some bands and artists that are sometimes omitted from the B.I. list:
~Them with Van Morrison
~The Nashville Teens
~The Zombies
~Peter & Gordon
~Chad & Jeremy
~Gerry & The Pacemakers
~Herman's Hermits
~Freddie & The Dreamers
~Dusty Springfield
~Manfred Mann
~Petula Clark

Here's a fine article that has a rather sterile and long title:The Pendulum of Cultural Imperialism: Popular Music Interchanges Between the United States and Britain, 1943–1967

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.00061.x/abstract

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Jeez, Panz...that's the story of my life you're telling there!