British beat groups rose to popularity in the mid-1960s in the U.K., the European mainland, and the U.S. during the period referred to by the American press as the British Invasion,
because of the perceived dominance of British groups in the U.S. charts. British Beat groups demonstrated that young men could make music together without having had any formal training and without being part of a musical establishment that wanted to groom solo stars. Their music was the...
