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| Subject: Supposedly, The Beatles 'did not spark a musical revolution in America' Fri May 08, 2015 3:34 am | |
| When the Beatles burst on to the US music scene with I Want to Hold Your Hand in February 1964, they were credited with launching a British pop invasion across the Atlantic.
Within a few months they held all top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 list – a feat that has never been repeated – and the American music press, which once derided Beatlemania, suddenly could not get enough of the Fab Four.
The Rolling Stones and the Kinks soon followed to provide an onslaught of British rock in the US.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-beatles-did-not-spark-a-musical-revolution-in-america-20150507-ggvxrf.html#ixzz3ZWw060Jr |
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