Meaning of British invasion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of British Invasion.
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2. The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.

Examples

“So in a stealth, surreptitious move⟳ of intrigue, he had named us the Golliwogs. “We're trying to have⟳ you guys be like⟳ the British Invasion here. So we wanted to give⟳ you a hip-sounding name⟳. Mod. It’s mod.””

“Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake⟳ of the British invasion.”

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