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?”�