British Invasion

The Invasion

On December 10, 1963 the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite ran a story about the Beatlemania phenomenon in the United Kingdom . [ 5 ] After seeing the report, 15 year old Marsha Albert of Silver Spring, Maryland wrote a letter the following day to disc jockey Carroll James at radio station WWDC asking "why can't we have music like that here in America?". [ 5 ] On December 17 James had Albert introduce " I Want to Hold Your Hand " live on the air, the first airing of a Beatles song in the United States. [ 5 ] WWDC's phones lit up and Washington, DC area record stores were flooded with requests for a record they did not have in stock. [ 5 ] On December 26 Capitol Records released the record three weeks ahead of schedule. [ 5 ] The release of the record during a time when teenagers were on vacation helped spread Beatlemania in America. [ 5 ] On January 18, 1964, " I Want to Hold Your Hand " reached number one on the Cash Box chart, the following week it did the same on Billboard . [ 5 ] On February 7 The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite ran a story about The Beatles ' United States arrival that afternoon in which the correspondent said "The British Invasion this time goes by the code name Beatlemania". [ 6 ] Two days later (Sunday, February 9) they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show . Pada 10 Desember 1963, CBS Evening News bersama Walter Cronkite berlari sebuah cerita tentang Beatlemania fenomena di Kerajaan Inggris. [5] Setelah melihat laporan, Marsha berusia 15 tahun Albert dari Silver Spring, Maryland, menulis surat pada hari berikutnya untuk disc joki Carroll di stasiun radio James WWDC bertanya "mengapa kita tidak bisa memiliki musik seperti itu di sini di Amerika?". [5] Pada tanggal 17 Desember Albert James memperkenalkan "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" tinggal di udara, yang pertama ditayangkan dari Beatles lagu di Amerika Serikat. [5] WWDC's telepon menyala dan Washington, DC area toko kaset dibanjiri permintaan untuk data mereka tidak ada dalam stok. [5] Pada tanggal 26 Desember Capitol Records merilis catatan tiga minggu lebih cepat dari jadwal. [5] Peluncuran rekaman selama waktu ketika remaja sedang berlibur membantu menyebarkan Beatlemania di Amerika. [5] Pada tanggal 18 Januari 1964, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" mencapai nomor satu di Cash Box bagan, minggu berikutnya ia melakukan hal yang sama pada Billboard. [5] Pada tanggal 7 CBS Evening News bersama Walter Cronkite memuat cerita tentang The Beatles 'Amerika Serikat kedatangan sore itu di mana wartawan mengatakan "British Invasion berjalannya waktu ini nama kode Beatlemania ". [6] Dua hari kemudian (Minggu, Februari 9) mereka tampil di Ed Sullivan Show. Seventy five percent of Americans watching television that night viewed their appearance. [ 4 ] On April 4 the Beatles held the top 5 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the only time to date that any act has accomplished this. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The group's massive chart success continued until they broke up in 1970. [ 4 ] Tujuh puluh lima persen orang Amerika menonton televisi malam itu dilihat penampilan mereka. [4] Pada tanggal 4 the Beatles memegang posisi top 5 di Billboard Hot 100 single chart, satu-satunya waktu untuk tanggal bahwa setiap tindakan yang telah dicapai ini. [4] [ 7] Kelompok yang besar kesuksesan bagan berlanjut sampai mereka putus pada tahun 1970. [4]

During the next two years, Chad & Jeremy , Peter and Gordon , The Animals , Manfred Mann , Petula Clark , Freddie and the Dreamers , Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders , Herman's Hermits , The Rolling Stones , The Troggs , and Donovan would have one or more number one singles. [ 1 ] Other acts that were part of the invasion included The Kinks and The Dave Clark Five . [ 4 ] British Invasion acts also dominated the music charts at home in the United Kingdom. [ 8 ] Selama dua tahun berikutnya, Chad & Jeremy, Peter dan Gordon, The Hewan, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie dan Pemimpi, Wayne Fontana dan Mindbenders, Herman's Hermit, The Rolling Stones, The Troggs, dan Donovan akan memiliki satu atau lebih nomor satu single. [1] tindakan lain yang merupakan bagian dari invasi termasuk The Kinks dan The Dave Clark Five. [4] tindakan Invasi Inggris juga mendominasi di rumah tangga musik di Inggris Raya. [8]

British Invasion artists played either blues based rock music , or a guitar driven hybrid of rock and pop music. [ 8 ] A second wave of the invasion occurred, featuring acts such as The Who and The Zombies , that were influenced by the invasion's pop side and American rock music. [ 8 ] Invasi Inggris seniman bermain baik blues berbasis musik rock, atau hibrida digerakkan gitar rock dan musik pop. [8] Sebuah gelombang kedua invasi terjadi, tindakan-tindakan yang menampilkan seperti The Who dan The Zombies, yang dipengaruhi oleh pop invasi sisi dan musik rock Amerika. [8]

The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night and fashions from Carnaby Street led American media to proclaim England as the center of the music and fashion world. [ 1 ] The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night dan mode dari Carnaby Street dipimpin media Amerika untuk mewartakan Inggris sebagai pusat dari dunia musik dan fashion. [1]

The emergence of relatively homogeneous worldwide rock music styles about 1967 marked the end of the "invasion". [ 1 ] Munculnya relatif homogen gaya musik rock di seluruh dunia tentang 1967 menandai akhir dari "invasi". [1]
[ edit ] Influence [Sunting] Pengaruh

The British Invasion had a profound impact on the shape of popular music. Invasi Inggris itu berdampak besar pada bentuk musik populer. It helped internationalize the production of rock and roll, establishing the British record industry as a viable centre of musical creativity, [ 9 ] and opening the door for subsequent British (and Irish) performers to achieve international success. [ 8 ] In America the invasion arguably spelled the end of such scenes as instrumental surf music , vocal girl groups and (for a time) the teen idols that had dominated the American charts in the late 1950s and 60s. [ 10 ] It dented the careers of established R&B acts like Fats Domino and Chubby Checker and temporarily derailed the chart success of surviving rock and roll acts, including Elvis Presley . [ 11 ] It prompted many existing garage rock bands to adopt a sound with a British Invasion inflection, and inspired many other groups to form, creating a scene from which many major American acts of the next decade would emerge. [ 12 ] The British Invasion also played a major part in the rise of a distinct genre of rock music , and cemented the primacy of the rock group, based around guitars and drums and producing their own material as singer-songwriters . [ 13 ] Ini membantu internasionalisasi produksi rock and roll, mendirikan industri rekaman Inggris sebagai pusat layak kreativitas musik, [9] dan membuka pintu bagi Inggris berikutnya (dan Irlandia) artis untuk mencapai keberhasilan internasional. [8] Di Amerika, invasi arguably mengeja akhir instrumental adegan-adegan seperti surfing musik, vokal kelompok-kelompok perempuan dan (untuk sementara waktu) para remaja berhala yang telah mendominasi tangga lagu Amerika pada akhir tahun 1950-an dan 60-an. [10] Ini penyok karier mapan R & B bertindak seperti Fats domino dan Chubby Checker dan untuk sementara menggelincirkan keberhasilan grafik yang masih hidup rock and roll tindakan, termasuk Elvis Presley. [11] Ini mendorong banyak orang yang ada rock garasi band untuk mengadopsi suara dengan infleksi Invasi Inggris, dan mengilhami banyak kelompok-kelompok lain untuk membentuk, menciptakan adegan yang banyak besar tindakan Amerika dekade berikutnya akan muncul. [12] Invasi Britania juga memainkan peranan utama dalam kebangkitan yang berbeda genre musik rock, dan keunggulan semen grup rock, yang berbasis di sekitar gitar dan drum dan memproduksi bahan mereka sendiri sebagai penyanyi-penulis lagu. [13]

While a majority of the acts associated with the invasion did not survive its end many would become icons of rock music . [ 8 ] Sementara sebagian besar tindakan yang terkait dengan invasi tidak selamat berakhir banyak akan menjadi ikon musik rock. [8]
[ edit ] Criticism [Sunting] Kritik

That the sound of British beat bands was not radically different from American groups like The Beach Boys , and damaged the careers of African American and female artists, [ 14 ] have been the subject of criticism of the invasion in the United States. Willy DeVille said the invaders played a watered down version of American music and pushed aside talented American artists such as Ben E. King and Smokey Robinson , adding that Americans, by favoring "anything that fucking glittered", fell for a "big money complicated political con game". [ 15 ] Itulah suara band mengalahkan Inggris tidak secara radikal berbeda dari American kelompok-kelompok seperti The Beach Boys, dan merusak karir African American dan perupa perempuan, [14] telah menjadi subyek kritik terhadap invasi di Amerika Serikat. Willy Deville kata memainkan penyerang menyiram versi ke musik Amerika dan menyingkirkan seniman berbakat Amerika seperti Ben E. King dan Smokey Robinson, menambahkan bahwa Amerika, dengan memihak "sesuatu yang berkilauan sialan", jatuh untuk "uang besar rumit permainan menipu politik" .