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British Rock Invasion!�
2) Approximate dates?
1964 to PRESENT
• 1964-1968 = heaviest time�
3) Key bands/musicians of the British Invasion?� • Beatles (#1) • Animals – “House of Rising Sun” • Kinks - “You Really Got Me” • Hollies • Herman’s Hermits - “I’m into Something Good” • Gerry & the Pacemakers • Donovan (Philips Leitch)
• Yardbirds - Chris Dreja Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page Jeff Beck
➜ “Shapes of Things” - guitar solo
• The Who • Rolling Stones
• Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd came later after invasion
4) Why did the musical British Invasion happen?�
USA Rockers were"indisposed" R&R was popular in the UK International Awareness
Brit. Invasion
• Elvis - enlisted in the army; went to Vietnam
• Chuck Berry - jailed for violating the Mann Act
• Jerry Lee Lewis - ostracized by society for… marrying his 13 year-old cousin • Little Richard - became a minister
• Buddy Holly - died in plane crash
Indisposed 50’s Rockers
Skiffle Music... • Folk music with Jazz & Blues influences • Acoustic guitar & banjo’s • Closely related to Jug Band music • Popular in Britain in 1950s & 1960s • http://www.ragtimejug.co.uk/music-
homemade.html
• Uses homemade instruments: – washboard – tea chest bass – kazoo – cigar-box fiddle – comb & paper
Skiffle Instruments
Lonnie Donegan • Most popular British Skiffle musician ➜ “Lost John”
�What does this phrase mean… ��
“Are you a Beatle or a Stone?”�