Music of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_United_KingdomBritain has influenced popular music disproportionately to its size, due to its linguistic and cultural links with many countries, particularly the United States and many of its former colonies like Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and its capacity for invention, innovation and fusion, which has led to the development of, or participation in, many of the major trends in popular music. Forms of po…
British popular music - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_popular_musicCommercial music enjoyed by the people can be seen to originate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the arrival of the broadside ballad, which were sold cheaply and in great numbers until the nineteenth century. Further technological, economic and social changes led to new forms of music in the nineteenth century, including the brass band, which produced a popular a…
British Invasion - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_InvasionThe British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the U.S. and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, Herman's …