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Posted on 05/19/2006 5:03:57 PM PDT by Supernatural
I was rather lucky to have grown up in one of the most amazing periods in the history of modern music, what has become known as the “British Invasion”. It wasn’t really an invasion of the U.S. by an armed force from another country; rather it was an invasion of our music charts by British recording artists. I was in the eighth grade when I first heard “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” by the Beatles. Prior to 1964 the British had only two hit records that topped the U.S. charts. Those were “Stranger on the Shore” by Acker Bilk and “Telstar” by the Tornadoes, both in 1962.
In 1964 Ed Sullivan, the host of the hugely popular “Ed Sullivan Show” was at a New York airport when the Beatles landed from England to go on their first U.S. tour. Crowds of screaming young girls greeted the Beatles and Ed was curious as to what the commotion was all about. He met with the Beatles on the spot and offered them $50,000 to appear on his show. The Beatles agreed and the British Invasion was officially underway. On February 9, 1964, the largest audience in the history of American television watched the Beatles perform live on the Ed Sullivan show. I was one of them.
For some years prior to 1964 young British musicians had idolized American music stars and many of the Americans were more popular in Britain than they were at home. The young Brits listened to Buddy Holly, Leadbelly, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and many others. The U.S. musicians became like Gods to the young British musicians and they worked hard to emulate them.
The Animals (Eric Burdon), The Beatles, Chad and Jeremy, The Dave Clark Five, Freddy and the Dreamers, Herman’s Hermits, The Kinks (Ray Davies), Donovan, The Hollies (Graham Nash), The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), Billy J. Kramer and the Dakota’s, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Dusty Springfield, The Troggs, The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Peter and Gordon, The Honeycombs, Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds (Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton), The Zombies, The Moody Blues, The Walker Brothers, Petula Clark, The Move, The Small Faces (Rod Stewart), The Who (Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry), Argent, John Mayall’s Blues breakers (Eric Clapton, Peter Green), Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green), Cream (Eric Clapton), Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), Procol Harum (Robin Trower), Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant), Traffic (Dave Mason, Stevie Winwood), Deep Purple and The Spencer Davis Group (Stevie Winwood).
Time Is On My Side…The Rolling Stones
Don‘t Bring Me Down…The Animals
Have I the Right…The Honeycombs
I Want To Hold Your Hand…The Beatles
Ferry Cross the Mersey…Gerry and the Pacemakers
I‘m Telling You Now…Freddy & the Dreamers
Little Children…Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
I think one of my favorites is Do Wa Diddy. I LOVE that song.
Well there's fivesies!! (loud slap)
I always thought that the Beatles were tops in their day and nothing else even came close to them.
The Rolling Stones finally outlasted the Beatles and then lasted another 35 years and are still going.
The length of time some of these bands last is amazing. Same thing with KISS.
I remember Do Wa Diddy and Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" being big hits not too far apart in time with each other.
It was a great time for music.
Hiya, Lorna, how ya doin'?
The Stone's can't last much longer.
That hard living has to catch up with them sooner or later.
I'm surprised that any of them are still alive.
KISS have outlasted themselves by at least 10 years. They don't even put out music anymore.
We start here at Jerkola, go down the Inseine River, over the Giva Dam, through Pushover to Shmowland, to the stronghold of Schmoe.
I really really like the Who, but (I dare say) I *almost* can't stand the Beatles anymore. For some reason they bring to mind inages of anti-Americanism.
A lot of people got down on the Beatles when John Lennon said that "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ".
That created a big scandle and a lot of people didn't want anything to do with the Beatles anymore.
John said in a news interview a few days after all the commotion started, "I never said we were better than Jesus Christ, just more popular".
John couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.
I remember my old grandmother being very upset at the Beatles.
Keith Richards looks like he died back in about 1980 and nobody told him about it...
And then Keith almost died again last week.
He has more lives than a cat.
Well, John was a commie.
However, it is rumored that by the year he died he had actually said that Ronald Reagan was his pick for President because Carter made America look weak.
I like some eras of the Stones, but not all. Their style changed quite a bit over the years.
They lost me with "Goat's Head Soup". After that album I didn't like much they did but thought "Some Girls" wasn't bad.
I will admit that I don't know many of their albums but I know all of their old stuff, from their first album.
They, like the Beatles, were doing a lot of other people's songs then.
I am one of the few that actually liked the "hair band" incarnation of KISS from '82 - '90.
Although...some would say they really were the first hair band anyway. Eighties hair metal evolved from a cross between NWOBHM, glam, and KISS and Alice Cooper.
I am an 80's child. I LOVE the 80's and I see that it is making a pretty big comeback now.
They really should try to put up That 80's Show...;)
Yeah!! I remember watching the pilot. Then it just died, I guess. Wish they'd give it another whirl.
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