Tag British Invasion

10cc

10cc – In Concert 1974 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

Coffee works too: – 10cc – In Concert Series – Live in London – August 21, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Depending on  how you looked at it, 10cc were one of the most successful Pop/Rock/Art-Rock/Soft Rock bands of…

Long Hair

Boys With Long Hair – 1970 -Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Subscribe: Become a Patron! – Martha Stuart: Are You Listening? – Boys With Long Hair – July 1970 – Anyone reading this who was born after 1970 will have no idea what the deal was. It was all about hair…

Squeeze in concert

Squeeze – Live At Oxford Polytechnic – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth

Squeeze – In Concert at Oxford Polytechnic – Recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert series – 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Squeeze to kick off this rather hair-raising week. In concert from Oxford Polytechnic and recorded by BBC…

The Searchers In Session – 1967 – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth

– The Searchers In Session – Sveriges Radio – 1967 – Become a Patron! One of the groups spearheading the British Invasion of the early 1960’s was The Searchers. They were often mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles,…

The Come Alive Generation

30 Minutes That Shaped A Generation – The Selling Of Youth Culture – Radio Commercials In The 60s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

Something interesting happened around the time of the British Invasion in the early 1960s’; teenagers in America were suddenly discovered to be a massive consumer market. Not that there hasn’t always been a goodly chunk of the population hovering under…