British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, and the Animals were at the forefront of the invasion.