Tag Archives: British Invasion

David John & the Feeling made two great, offbeat British Defeat R&B singles within the mid-1960s, rare as get-out nowadays, but reissued on various compilations of obscure Uk Invasion recordings. There is nothing known concerning the music group, except that these were made by Shel Talmy (the Who, the Kinks, …

Nicknamed “the Calm Beatle” on the height of Beatlemania, George Harrison do indeed appear somewhat reserved set alongside the various other members from the Fab Four. He preferred wry wit to Ringo Starr’s clowning, and he hardly ever indulged in either John Lennon’s penchant for controversy or Paul McCartney’s crowd-pleasing …

Not an designer in the original sense of the word (he couldn’t play or sing whatsoever) maker Joe Meek has non-etheless been belatedly named an important, actually inimitable, physique of early British rock and roll & move. Like Phil Spector, Meek created idiosyncratic production methods that, a lot more than …

The mid-’60s Irish rock scene produced no bands that achieved international acclaim, using the main exception of these. In fact, hardly any Irish rings from enough time are internationally known whatsoever, also to avid enthusiasts, partly because few surely got to record several or two singles. Apart from Them spinoff …

So named simply because they hailed from Hull, Britain, the Hullaballoos were arguably probably the most exploitative act from the first influx of the Uk Invasion. Making use of their wig-like helmets of bleach-blond locks that vied using the Quite Things as well as the Stones long, that they had …

Hairdresser Steven Silver met future performing partner Francis Aiello while reducing the latter’s locks. Acquiring their name from a popular Ray Charles’ melody, “Tell THE REALITY”, the duo have scored a UK Best 30 strike in 1966 making use of their debut one, an opportunistic cover of “Gal” in the …

Carnaby may have seemed the best exemplory case of Swinging London ephemera, a rock-band comprised of five clerks from boutiques on . . . (you guessed it) . . . Carnaby Road. The gimmick was best for about five ins of press, however the music was another thing with regards …

b. Glyn Ellis, 28 Oct 1945, Manchester, Britain. After changing his name in honour of Elvis Presley’s drummer D.J. Fontana, Wayne was agreed upon to the properly named Fontana Information by A&R mind Jack port Baverstock. Wayne’s support group, the Mindbenders in the horror film of the same name, had …

Device 4+2 was a one-hit question that probably deserved better. Among the better acoustic-electric rings of the middle-’60s, the group stormed the graphs with one unforgettable hit, “Cement and Clay,” rating on both edges from the Atlantic, however they had been never in a position to think of a follow-up …

b. Donald Maughn, 19 August 1943, Coventry, Western Midlands, England. Because the vocalist using the Sorrows, Maughn was presented upon this cult take action’s most long lasting launch, the pulsating ‘Consider A Center’. Lots 21 strike in Sept 1965, its hypnotic, throbbing defeat was managed on subsequent produces, several of …