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  1. Early British pop/rock is essentially any British popular music that was influenced by rock & roll and that appeared prior to the Beatles (i.e. the late '50s to about 1963). Most early British rock was far more mannered than its inspirations, and its best performers not quite up to the level of American rockers -- simply because rock & roll was ...

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      Although the term Skiffle was originally used in the U.S. in...

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  2. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge phenomenon from the United States.

  3. Early British popular music. Interior of the Canterbury Hall, an early example of a music hall, opened 1852 in Lambeth. Early British popular music, in the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, can be seen to originate in the 16th and 17th centuries with the arrival of the broadside ballad as a result of the print revolution, which ...

  4. British pop music is popular music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom.It emerged in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to American rock 'n' roll.Like American pop music it has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, as well as that of the Singles Chart usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs.

  5. This 1985 documentary examines the music and musicians behind the original "British Invasion" of the mid-60's. Includes rare archived interviews with John Le...

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  6. British pop music emerged in the 1950s. It was a style of music which was seen as an alternative to American rock ‘n’ roll. British pop music has changed a lot since the 1950s. Over the years ...

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  8. The History of British Rock Music. by Alex Cosper (12/01/13) British rock music implies the development of The Beatles onward, since they inspired a high percentage of rock bands that followed, whereas earlier guitar-based rock is usually considered a different era. While many British rock bands were heavily influenced by American rock and roll ...