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| - British Invasion is a promotional-only 12" vinyl compilation album featuring Duran Duran, released in Japan by Toshiba Records during 1983.
- British Invasion (invasión británica) é un tero usado para describir os artistas de rock e de pop do Reino Unido que se fixeron populares nos Estados Unidos de 1964 ata 1966. A Second British Invasion refírese aos artistas de MTV dos anos 80. No segunda metade dos anos 2000 o termo voltou a usarse para describir o éxito de maioritariamente artistas femininas e artistas británicos en xeral.
- The British Invasion occurred in the mid-'60s, when a wave of English rock & roll bands crossed over into the American market after the breakthrough success of The Beatles. Though not all of the bands sounded similar — they ranged from the hard rock of The Rolling Stones and The Kinks to the sweet pop of Gerry & the Pacemakers and Herman's Hermits — each group was heavily influenced by American rock & roll, blues, and R&B. British Invasion bands were either blues-based rockers or pop/rockers with ringing guitars and catchy hooks & melodies. Between 1964 and 1966, the British bands dominated the American charts, as well as the charts in the U.K. In that time, there was a second wave of British Invasion bands — such as The Who and The Zombies — which was indebted to both American rock and Br
- Though American TV show host Arthur Godfrey is generally credited for seeding US interest in uke music in the 1950s by playing ukelele between acts on his show, the full effects of this were not felt until the early 1960s. Reaction to this was swift and strong, leading to unprecedented levels of drug use as well as the creations of psychedelic music and acid rock, but ukelele bands would not return for some time.
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| - British Invasion is a promotional-only 12" vinyl compilation album featuring Duran Duran, released in Japan by Toshiba Records during 1983.
- Though American TV show host Arthur Godfrey is generally credited for seeding US interest in uke music in the 1950s by playing ukelele between acts on his show, the full effects of this were not felt until the early 1960s. The roots of the first Uke Invasion were sown with a sudden surge in the popularity of American ukelele music in 1962. It was in that year that Don Ho, the now-famous Hawaiian-American musician, moved from his native Kāne'ohe to Waikīkī, Honolulu and got a booking to play a night club called Duke's. He was signed to a recording contract on-the-spot by company officials, and soon his music was everywhere by way of his multi-city tours and the bootleg reel-to-reel tape recordings produced by fans. Meanwhile, scores of British teenagers were starting their own ukelele bands to copy their American heroes. They copied both the island musical style and the unique fashion of dress, including colourful shirts, festive leis, and grass skirts. British parents were incensed, which only served to fuel further rebelliousness within UK youth at the time. Britain produced a few of its own ukelele bands, most notably The Shadows, but in general the impact on US and world record charts was negligible. It wasn't until the explosion of The Beatles in 1963 that the UK began its term as the innovator, rather than the emulator, of popular ukelele music. The Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964, watched by what was then the largest television audience in history, signalled the beginning of a genre of ukelele greatness like the world had never seen before. Unlike the instrumental uke groups that preceeded them, The Beatles could sing; sadly, even with their voices and instruments amplified by microphone, it was difficult to hear their renditions of "Ain't She Sweet", "Tiny Bubbles", and "The Cat Came Back" over the screaming of crazed female fans. With a string of imitators from both sides of the pond jumping onto the uke scene, American and British artists soon became indistinguishable from each other. By the late '60s island music began to decline in popularity, replaced by folk music offerings like "The Riddle" (a tune originally written in the 15th century): Reaction to this was swift and strong, leading to unprecedented levels of drug use as well as the creations of psychedelic music and acid rock, but ukelele bands would not return for some time.
- British Invasion (invasión británica) é un tero usado para describir os artistas de rock e de pop do Reino Unido que se fixeron populares nos Estados Unidos de 1964 ata 1966. A Second British Invasion refírese aos artistas de MTV dos anos 80. No segunda metade dos anos 2000 o termo voltou a usarse para describir o éxito de maioritariamente artistas femininas e artistas británicos en xeral.
- The British Invasion occurred in the mid-'60s, when a wave of English rock & roll bands crossed over into the American market after the breakthrough success of The Beatles. Though not all of the bands sounded similar — they ranged from the hard rock of The Rolling Stones and The Kinks to the sweet pop of Gerry & the Pacemakers and Herman's Hermits — each group was heavily influenced by American rock & roll, blues, and R&B. British Invasion bands were either blues-based rockers or pop/rockers with ringing guitars and catchy hooks & melodies. Between 1964 and 1966, the British bands dominated the American charts, as well as the charts in the U.K. In that time, there was a second wave of British Invasion bands — such as The Who and The Zombies — which was indebted to both American rock and British Invasion pop. By the late '60s, many of the bands had become rock icons but a greater number didn't survive the transition into the post-Sgt. Pepper era.
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