British Invasion Edition Web License

The rebellious tone and image of American rock and roll and blues musicians became popular with British youth in the late 1950s. Young British groups started to combine various British and American styles. This coalesced in Liverpool during 1962 in what became known as Merseybeat, hence the “beat boom”, and gave the world bands like the Beatles.

On December 10, 1963 the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite ran a story about the Beatlemania phenomenon in the United Kingdom. On February 7, 1964 the CBS Evening News ran a story about The Beatles’ United States arrival that afternoon in which the correspondent said “The British Invasion this time goes by the code name Beatlemania”.

During the next two years, the Beatles and many other British artists like the Rolling Stones, Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman’s Hermits, The Troggs, and Donovan would have one or more number one singles in the USA.

The British Invasion had a profound impact on the shape of popular music. And now our British Invasion edition can have a profound impact on your daily weather forecast as well!