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Jamaican music began to influence British pop music, punk rock and the 2 Tone genre with the rise of the (often interracial) bands, such as The Specials, Madness, The Selecter and The Beat. [46] Many of these Jamaican-influenced UK bands (such as UB40 ) adopted pop styles to appeal to mainstream audiences, but some UK reggae bands (such as ...
Abingdon. Radiohead; Accrington. Diana Vickers; Andover. The Troggs; Anstey. Molly Smitten-Downes; Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The Young Knives; Ashford. Oliver Sykes; Aylesbury
The city is often cited as the birthplace of classic rock and the popular music industry. Several genres of rock and pop originated in London throughout the 1960s to the 1990s including British blues, psychedelia, mod, prog, glam, hard rock, punk rock, New Romantic and Britpop. [1] This page includes bands formed and based in London. [2] Below ...
Solstice (British rock band) Sound of Contact; Spirogyra (band) Spontaneous Combustion (English band) Spratleys Japs; Spring (band) Stairway (band) Steamhammer (band) Still Life (1970s UK band) Strawbs; Stray (band) Suns of the Tundra; The Syn
Britpop emerged from the British indie scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. [1] The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge phenomenon from the United States. [ 1 ]
One of the most infamous live albums of the ‘70s is barely music at all. In the King of Rock and Roll’s less profitable final years, his manager, Col. Tom Parker, came up with the incorrect ...
The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce copies of American records, recorded with session musicians and often fronted by teen idols. British rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and Tommy Steele. The bland or wholly imitative form of much British rock and roll in this period ...
The music of most bands was guitar based, [70] [71] often mixing elements of British traditional rock (or British trad rock), [72] particularly the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Small Faces [73] with American influences. Post-Britpop bands also used elements from 1970s British rock and pop music. [71]