The British Invasion

The British Invasion is one of the few movements in music that didn't involve a radical change of musical influences, at least off of the get-go. When it first started, it was purely some of the British band's desire to emulate the American style of Rock and Roll. Though the influence was there, the movement didn't actually take place until The Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show):



The movement was a combination of Rock and Roll, Beat, and Pop music, and was very similar in composition to the "surfer music" that was played already in the United States (The Beach Boys being an example of that). Though the music started out as being an extension of the style of music being done by other genre's, it quickly grew into its own style (crafted mainly by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones).

However, unlike many of the musical genre's, the British Invasion was not marked by the very specific things that it did to try and change about the current genre's, but the location from which the artists in question came from. Many of the artists had radically different styles of music, with changes to every aspect of Rock imaginable. The sole exception to this being that the guitar was always in the forefront of instruments, though the timbre, rhythm, type of guitar could radically change between each of the performers.