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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 cut a lot of slack for language...
Like I said, I figure that if my undisputed expert on bad music likes a band, it probably is bad...
I never got into heavy metal all that much--some Metallica and Judas Priest, that's about it...
Let's see--born in 86, that means I was only three...
What the hell does MmmmmmBop mean, anyway? Is that some secret code for "we're gay looking pubescent blond wimpy kids who can't sing?"
I saw Priest live last year with Queensryche. Metallica are a joke now, though not a very funny one.
Yes it should...
After all, their career lasted approximately 3.6 mmmBops...8^)
Youngin'.
I know, I know.
Really? I like that "Bippitty Boppitty Boo" song they did, or whatever it was called...
I was 7 when the 80s ended, so I don't really remember anything either, although they were much better than the godawful 90s.
Ugh, I hated the '90s. What a decade to grow up in.
I still have Master of Puppets. That's the one I really like...
Heard it first on Savage--he uses that as part of his opening theme...
Yeah the 90's sucked. Grunge rock really sucked. (For me, anyway.)
Yep, the 90's were really bad.
Especially with Klintoon in the White House, Tamagotchis, the beanie baby craze of the mid-90's, Aqua/Barbie Girl, etc... ad nauseam 8^)
Yep, I agree. 93-97 were horrid, but for mostly personal reasons.
I love younger guys ;)
LOL ;)
Having fun, babe? ;)
We're talking about how bad the 90's were...
...The Spice Girls, Barney, the Teletubbies, Titanic, Blair Witch...
Lol, I could go on and on with bad 90s references, but I won't.
Yep. Those were bad even then.
My 16 year old sister still has a Spice Girls poster in her room...
...though my litte brother also gets a kick making fun of the Teletubbies--especially when I told him the The Opinion on the purple one (forget which televangelist)
I remember in sixth grade, the songs that were chosen at the 6th grade breakfast consisted of Aqua, Titanic, and Spice Girls. To this day, I'm still saying Unnngh! when I think about it...
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