British invasion

proper noun

The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.

Meanings

British invasion1

proper nounthe British invasion
  1. Alternative letter-case form of British Invasion.

British Invasion2

proper nounthe British Invasion

alternative British invasion

  1. The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.

    So in a stealth, surreptitious move of intrigue, he had named us the Golliwogs. “We're trying to have you guys be like the British Invasion here. So we wanted to give you a hip-sounding name. Mod. It’s mod.”

    2015, John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 145
    1 more example

    Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British invasion.

    2017, Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91
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APA

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