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British Invasion and Rock music of the United Kingdom

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Difference between British Invasion and Rock music of the United Kingdom

British Invasion vs. Rock music of the United Kingdom

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic. British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom.

Similarities between British Invasion and Rock music of the United Kingdom

British Invasion and Rock music of the United Kingdom have 50 things in common (in Unionpedia): A Hard Day's Night (film), Beat music, Beatlemania, Billboard Hot 100, Blues, CBS Evening News, Cool Britannia, Donovan, Elvis Presley, Folk rock, Freddie and the Dreamers, Garage rock, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, Joe Meek, Led Zeppelin, List of British Invasion artists, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, Liverpool, Manfred Mann, Motown, Music of the United Kingdom (1960s), New wave music, Oasis (band), Peter and Gordon, Petula Clark, Rock and roll, Rolling Stone, Skiffle, Small Faces, ..., Swinging Sixties, Telstar (instrumental), The Animals, The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Searchers (band), The Spencer Davis Group, The Sweet, The Tornados, The Troggs, The Yardbirds, Them (band), Trad jazz, Van Morrison, Walter Cronkite, Wayne Fontana. Expand index (20 more) »

A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania.

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Beat music

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (after bands from Liverpool and nearby areas beside the River Mersey) is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.

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Beatlemania

Beatlemania is the term given to the intense fan frenzy directed towards the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News (titled as CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor for its weeknight broadcasts since December 4, 2017 and simply CBS Weekend News for its weekend broadcasts) is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States.

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Cool Britannia

Cool Britannia was a period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom throughout most of the 1990s, inspired by 1960s pop culture.

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Donovan

Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Freddie and the Dreamers

Freddie and the Dreamers were a British band that had a number of hit records between May 1963 and November 1965.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Gerry and the Pacemakers

Gerry and the Pacemakers is an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene.

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Herman's Hermits

Herman's Hermits are an English beat rock band, formed in Manchester in 1964.

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Joe Meek

Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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List of British Invasion artists

The following is a list of bands and artists that were involved with the British Invasion music phenomenon that occurred between 1964 and 1966 in the United States.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music of the United Kingdom (1960s)

Music of the United Kingdom developed in the 1960s into one of the leading forms of popular music in the modern world.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Peter and Gordon

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No.1 smash "A World Without Love".

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Petula Clark

Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark, 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress and composer whose career spans seven decades.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Skiffle

Skiffle is a music genre with jazz, blues, folk and American folk influences, usually using a combination of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

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Small Faces

Small Faces were an English rock band from East London.

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Swinging Sixties

Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the UK during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London as its epicentre.

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Telstar (instrumental)

"Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados.

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The Animals

The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock band formed in Tottenham in 1957.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Searchers (band)

The Searchers are an English beat group, which emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with the Beatles, the Hollies, the Fourmost, the Merseybeats, the Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

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The Spencer Davis Group

The Spencer Davis Group are a British beat and R&B band formed in Birmingham in 1963, by Spencer Davis with Steve Winwood and his brother, Muff Winwood.

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The Sweet

The Sweet (also known as Sweet) is a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s.

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The Tornados

The Tornados were an English instrumental group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also for singer Billy Fury.

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The Troggs

The Troggs (originally called The Troglodytes) are an English garage rock band formed in Andover, Hampshire in May 1964.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Them (band)

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.

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Trad jazz

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century, which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone in contrast to more modern styles which usually include saxophones, and the revival of these styles in mid 20th-century Britain before the emergence of beat music.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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Wayne Fontana

Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, 28 October 1945) is an English rock and pop singer, best known for the 1965 hit "Game of Love" with the Mindbenders.

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British Invasion and Rock music of the United Kingdom Comparison

British Invasion has 217 relations, while Rock music of the United Kingdom has 456. As they have in common 50, the Jaccard index is 7.43% = 50 / (217 + 456).

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