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Half a century ago, a select handful of British drummers became the most talked about and influential players in the world ...
But they took the repurposed blues and garage rock and sped things up into bite-sized songs. Today’s list revisits four of the best British rock bands from the 1960s.
American music changed in 1964, when blues-based British rock bands “invaded” the U.S. charts, spearheading the so-called British Invasion.
Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics as The Who's “My Generation” and The Kinks' “You Really Got Me,” helped oversee hits by ...
John Mayall, the pioneering British bandleader whose mid-1960s blues ensembles served as incubators for some of the biggest stars of rock’s golden era, died on Monday. He was 90.
We all bought the singles for the hit in the 1960s, but sometimes the real treasure didn't show until you flipped the record ...
A giant of the great British blues boom of the 1960s was a musical change-agent who revered and honored his forebears.
Entertainment Music legend who was instrumental in the blues revival of the late 1960s dies at 90 Published: Jul. 24, 2024, 9:55 a.m.
He is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style R&B that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s.
LONDON (AP) — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was ...