Meanings
British invasion1
- Alternative letter-case form of British Invasion.
British Invasion2
alternative British invasion
- 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 1451 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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