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Look, I get that we need citations for many things, but this one seems pretty obvious. The Britannica article (used as the very first cite) says "What followed would be called—with historical condescension by the willingly reconquered colony—the second British Invasion." What else could this refer to but previous military invasions? Later, there is a quote of Walter Cronkite saying "The British Invasion this time goes by the code name Beatlemania." (emphasis added) Again, what else could this refer to? Do we have to find a quote of someone explicitly saying "We called it the British Invasion because it's a fun historical allusion?" Simishag ( talk) 20:28, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Someone asked whether "Mary Poppins, released on 27 August 1964, became the most Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated Disney film in history, and My Fair Lady, released on 25 December 1964, won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director." is original research. If that sentence is original research, then so are the two phrases from which it is composed, the first appearing in the Mary Poppins (film) article in Wikipedia, the second appearing in the My Fair Lady (film) article in Wikipedia.
I didn't attribute Academy Awards nominated and won entirely to British musical groups. Rather I mentioned such things to support the paragraph's first sentence, "Outside of music other aspects of British arts became popular due to the invasion" (which sentence someone else had already entered). P.L. Travers authored the Mary Poppins books starting in 1934, and My Fair Lady (based on Shaw's Pygmalion) had already been filmed before, in 1938, and had been on Broadway before, starting in 1956. Yet the popularity of each member of the ensemble of British works in the arts, film, and music in the early to mid 1960s, especially those two films, all occurring fairly close in time to each other, tended to reinforce the popularity of each of the other members of that same ensemble, if by no other means than conversational association. 71.103.143.39 ( talk) 01:19, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
The second to last paragraph of British Invasion#The Invasion contains two inaccurate or misleading statements. The first, that British bands came to the United States because they "could make a lot of money without the burden of British taxes" is inaccurate. Earnings outside the United Kingdom were still taxed at home. A taxpayer had to reside outside the UK to avoid taxes, hence the number of British musicians who became tax exiles, although this didn't occur until the 1970s. The second statement, that the Kinks were banned from touring in the US because the American Federation of Musicians were "convinced that British bands were getting a disproportionate share of musician's income" is misleading at best. While the union may have had some resentment toward British acts, the Kinks were denied permits by the American Federation of Musicians because of complaints of bad behavior on stage and failing to appear for a performance during their 1965 US tour. It also didn't help that they refused to sign a release to perform on the TV show Hullabaloo and Davies punched a representative of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. This touring problem was unique to the Kinks and doesn't seem to be applicable to the British Invasion as a whole. Piriczki ( talk) 18:52, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
I find it strange that the British invasion should effectively be described as being based on American music and James Bond. Is this a mainstream view? If not it should be removed 203.184.41.226 ( talk) 04:07, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
The notion of a rock (or r'n'b) group consistently writing their own songs as a self-contained creative unit was pretty much new though. Most fifties and early sixties acts had relied heavily on paid, professional songwriters who wrote to order. The Beatles (and later The Stones and The Who) pioneered the "write and play your own stuff" rock band, the idea soon spreading all around the western world. 83.254.151.33 ( talk) 02:36, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Being a voracious reader, I once read something that I found interesting, namely that Adolf Hitler was indirectly responsible for the British Invasion. The reason is this: several million Americans went to Britain during WWII and they brought the Blues with them. It was the post war kids (George, Paul, John, Mick, and Jimmy, etc.) who grew up listening to it and helped create the British sound. If there's no WWII, there's no later Beatles, Stones, or Yardbirds. Assuming the original source is ever found, does this sound like a legitimate entry into this article? 209.179.21.14 ( talk) 14:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Actually "interesting questions" should be relevant to any article if they're on topic. Your response Ghmyrtle is just snotty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 ( talk) 23:40, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
The "Beyond the Beatles" section is going to need a lot of work. The problem isn't in the content, per se, but how things are worded and sequenced. The ordering is jumbled and confusing and does not convey a clear, smooth narrative that is helpful to the reader. It looks as if all of the parts have just been stitched together haphazardly over the course of time. So, we need to give it an "architecture." I could do a re-write of the section that keeps the content (and sources) exactly the same, but puts everything in a clear, coherent order, with improved wording. Garagepunk66 ( talk) 20:40, 10 April 2015 (UTC) Garagepunk66 ( talk) 01:08, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of British Invasion's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "ALLMUSIC":
Reference named "The Great Rock Discography":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
"In the next year alone, the Beatles would have 30 different listings on the Hot 100." The correct number of different listings is 31, not 30. The Billboard Hot 100 charts and Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 both prove that fact conclusively. Yet someone keeps changing the number 31 to 30. I would ask that the number 30 be corrected to 31 and left that way permanently. 107.185.145.26 ( talk) 17:48, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Piriczki ( talk) 18:42, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
I see. Joel Whitburn had lumped "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)" by George Martin And His Orch. together with The Beatles' hits to give the appearance of 31 total for 1964. 107.185.145.26 ( talk) 15:09, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
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In conjunction with this article, I will be working on the Folk Rock article, which has excessive information on the British Invasion. I hope to add any new information to this article and use this article to better the summary of British Invasion in Folk Rock. I plan on helping organize this article. For example, the “Outside music” section, I believe, may need a better title and better organization. So far, I am considering organizing it by subject matter. I also think the “Influence” section contains a lot of good information, but I feel that information also can be separated into subsections. In addition to that, is there a particular reason why the information of the end of the British Invasion is under the Influence section?
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"On May 8, 1965, the British Commonwealth came closer than it ever had or would to a clean sweep of a weekly Hot 100's Top 10, lacking only a hit at number two instead of 'Count Me In' by the US group Gary Lewis & the Playboys."
Casey Kasem, who repeatedly cited this statistic, always mistakenly said on " American Top 40" that all of the records, except "Count Me In", in the top 10 that week were by British acts, whereas The Seekers, whose " I'll Never Find Another You" was at #5 that week, were not British but rather Australian. Thus it was that the British Commonwealth, instead of just the British per se, missed a clean sweep that week by only one position. 98.149.97.245 ( talk) 17:54, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
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Tkbrett regarded my contribution to the British Invasion as "strange inclusion of trivia in a reference". How so? Both Drake and Taylor Swift's accomplishments versus The Beatles in this regard are in quite a few published articles, many of which are very recent. As just one example, see https://slate.com/culture/2022/11/taylor-swift-midnights-drake-beatles-billboard-hot-100.html . 98.149.97.245 ( talk) 21:09, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
This is an important historical article for the music and culture of both N America and Britain. As such, the longer term impact of the British Invasion in the long term is underplayed, or, too briefly illustrated. What is not mentioned at any proper length is the more intimately interwoven expressions and sharing of both artists and the wider counterculture that it gave birth to, kind of just saying that "because the Vietnam War made America a battleground, it all sort of went away except for British Prog Rock". The legacy of the British Invasion was far deeper and profound and sometimes went in reverse or interbred. No mention of Woodstock? No mention of David Bowie going to America to reincarnate. The greatest hybrid band ever: The Police or others like Fleetwood Mac. The opener of world music: Peter Gabriel. Comedy: Monty Python, Jethro Tull. Jimi in London, schooling the Brit virtuosos. Live Aid. And that's just off the top of my head.
Because of the British Invasion, the heartbeat of both cultures were forever reunited, and if you came of age 1960 to 1990, you couldn't avoid it and cherished it most likely. Thmaui ( talk) 10:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
The chart would be a useful summary, if only it were accurate, but it is not. Only one week of "I Feel Fine" is in the 1964, resulting in a total of 24 weeks for that year, and the other two weeks are in 1965, resulting in a total of 28 weeks for that year. Since all three members of America were American, 1972 had zero weeks. And so forth. 98.149.97.245 ( talk) 19:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC)