During the 1960s, American music was taken over by artists from the U.K. This era became known as the British Invasion, with U.K. pop and rock artists dominating the American charts. Many of these ...

Brigitte Bardot and Jackie Kennedy set sophisticated fashion trends in the early 1960s. People wore shifts in sea-shell pink and milky yellow, turtlenecks and stirrup pants. By 1969, the year of ...

In the 1960s, the British Invasion gave music fans a plethora of bands to meet, get to know and fall in love with. Many of those groups produced buzzy, electric guitar-based tune with big rhythms and ...

Popular music from the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones will be weaved in among more traditional classical pieces when the Royal Oak Concert Band performs early next month. The concert is ...

By the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Clapton was playing guitar in a way the entire music industry envied, but he felt the same about ...

As part of the British invasion of the 1960s, The Zombies were among the first rock groups to visit America, in 1964. The band's initial appearance was on the Murray the K show, in New York.

In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...

To some people, Peter Asher may be remembered as one half of the 1960s pop due Peter and Gordon, or perhaps as the man who nearly became the brother-in-law of The Beatles' Paul McCartney. A few might ...

The British are coming. This time, it will be with open arms, ears eager to listen and dancing feet. Much like the teens of the mid-1960s embraced the fresh sounds of anything from the British Isles, ...

Today, we’re bringing the boom. Welcome back to another edition of British Invasion, the column that dives into British music history. Today’s programming will be on the blues boom of the 1960’s (and ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — When the Yardbirds return to Jonathan’s Ogunquit for their second appearance there this Friday night, the band members will have more than their decades of rock 'n' roll hits to ...