British Invasion

British invasion English Alternative forms en British invasion Proper noun British Invasion 1 The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s. en w:John Fogerty Fortunate Son 2015 Little, Brown and Company New York 145 https://archive.org/details/fortunatesonmyli0000foge_c2k8/page/145/mode/1up 978-0-316-24457-2 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.” en 2017 Tony Fletcher In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett Oxford University Press 9780190252946 92d4DQAAQBAJ 91 British Invasion 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 en Second British Invasion Further reading en Music