Something Else By The Kinks
Give The People What They Want
Village Green Preservation Society
Low Budget
Muswell Hillbillies
The list and order will change 5 times today, but this is the first list that comes to mind. Hard to skip Sleepwalker, The Kink Kontroversy, and Misfits
Well, I don't know what it was called in Canada (if anything), but STateside, the media in general (not just MTV) called it "The Second British Invasion".Well, there was Lonnie Donegan's Does You Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Over Night (or whatever the actual title of the song, but that's skiffle, so I guess it doesn't count.
Few of the pre-Beatles UK rock acts got anywhere in the US, right? I think Cliff did OK with 'Living Doll' and The Tornados had 'Telstar' but I don't think any of the others did anything. Cliff did better in the mid 70s-early 80s, and Shadows members wrote various big US hits for Olivia Newton John.
I remember reading an article in Guitar Player magazine about Burns guitars, which noted that part of the reason Burns never had a big Stateside market share was because their publicity at the time leaned heavily on the endorsement of a guitarist (Hank Marvin) and band (The Shadows) who few Americans had heard of at the time.
I wonder which Olivia Newton-John songs the Shadows guys wrote.
They formed early enough to go through four different "lead" guitarists before 1968 (mind you, Anthony Topham was only in the band for a few weeks, but even still...).Just checked, and I didn't know the Yardbirds actually formed that early..; Did they tour the US so early in their career?
I believe their first US tour was in 65, with Beck already in the band.
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