British Invasion

See also: British invasion

English

Alternative forms

• British invasion

Proper noun

the British Invasion

1. The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.
   • 2015, John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 145:

     So in a stealth, surreptitious move of intrigue, he had named us the Golliwogs. “We're trying to have you guys be like the British Invasion here. So we wanted to give you a hip-sounding name. Mod. It’s mod.”

   • 2017, Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British invasion.

Related terms

• Second British Invasion

Further reading

• British Invasion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia