British Invasion

The original British Invasion began when the four mop-topped members of The Beatles sent droves of teenage girls into hysterics when they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first stateside performance in February 1964. Over the next six years, their sound evolved from sugary sweet tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to the more experimental, rock-driven "I Am the Walrus" to the wistful ballad "Yesterday." The group broke up in 1970, but... more 

The original British Invasion began when the four mop-topped members of The Beatles sent droves of teenage girls into hysterics when they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first stateside performance in February 1964. Over the next six years, their sound evolved from sugary sweet tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to the more experimental, rock-driven "I Am the Walrus" to the wistful ballad "Yesterday." The group broke up in 1970, but not before they changed music history forever by scoring dozens of U.S. hits, and winning a shelf full of Grammy Awards, even some in 1997 for an album that used late singer John Lennon's voice from earlier records almost two decades after he was fatally shot in 1980. And the Fab Four regularly land atop lists of the greatest artist of all time, such as the one by Rolling Stone magazine. less