British Invasion: Facts

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the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
drummer Dave Clark was a stuntman who performed in over 40 films before he formed the 1960s British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five?
Sid Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by getting The Beatles to play at Carnegie Hall?

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Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace?
drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds?
German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
Jimi Hendrix described the lead guitarist of The Ace of Cups, an all-female rock band, as "really great"?
Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
Australian pop/rock band 1927, whose debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum, tried for a year to get a recording contract?
rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records, but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style?
rock band Stoneground featured seven lead singers on their 1971 debut album?
The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?

Australian power pop band Icecream Hands takes their name from lyrics in a Robyn Hitchcock song?

Excello Records did not release south Louisiana black Creole musician King Karl's 1958 rock and roll ballad "This Should Go On Forever" until it had already become a national hit for Karl's hometown friend, Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard?
Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles?
Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?
bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?
seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll"?
the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?

Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas, punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority?
Spiral Scratch was the first independently-released Punk rock record, and inspired a wave of DIY record labels across the United Kingdom?

Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?

British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?

psychedelic rock group Circus Maximus was the launching point for the career of country musician Jerry Jeff Walker?
the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song "Good Shepherd" is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
the eponymous first album by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft includes the song "The White Ship", directly inspired by a short story by the writer from whom the group took their name?