Posted on February 7, 2019


Of course all this great music - from Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley to Little Richard and Buddy Holly - and all these changes in youth culture quickly spread around the world, including to Great Britain.
For a while, British musical groups that tried to put out their own original rock and roll music failed to find many fans or sell many records. American musicians on tour in the U.K. always overshadowed the British groups that opened for them. But in the early 1960s, that began to change as young Brits combined British and American styles and created "Mersey Beat" or "beat boom" music.

I bet you know the band that had inspired all that adulation - the Beatles!
With that much interest in the U.K., of course, articles about the Beatles began to appear elsewhere in the world, including the U.S. American record companies didn't catch on right away and dragged their feet about releasing Beatles songs and albums, but finally, late in 1963, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became a hit in the U.S. when a disc jockey got hold of the British single and began to play it. Other radio stations had to play taped copies of the song, and when the single was finally released on December 26, 1963, it quickly shot up to Number 1. At that point, of course, several U.S. record companies that had been sitting on recordings, not bothering to produce them, quickly released Beatles singles and albums.
And so Beatle music became super popular with Americans. On this date in 1964, just a month and a half after the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the Beatles arrived for the first time in the U.S., in New York, and it soon became clear that Beatlemania had also crossed the ocean!

Or were they already used to that much ruckus every time they appeared?

Here are some of the other groups, besides for the Beatles, considered to be a part of the British Invasion:
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the Animals |
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the Dave Clark Five |
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Herman's Hermits |
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the Kinks |
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