For me, it's The Beatles. You might think I'm just some silly uneducated kid that has shit taste in music.
I'm 28 years old, I was brought up listening to The Who, The Jam, Small Faces, Secret Affair etc. My dad doesn't particularly like The Beatles either. I don't know if it's just because of that but I've tried listening to them off my own account and I just don't think they're good....
Edit: seems to be a lot of people saying just British solo artists and boybands/girlbands. This isn't what I meant.....
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Can be one or a few. Preferably internationally known, but nationally is also okay.
This is a topic I really want to explore and research.
Why is it that England produced such massively popular and talented rock bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, etc. compared to the US that had a few bands from the 60s and 70s that could only slightly compare in talent and commercial success?
I'm curious to know if anyone has done any research and published their findings anywhere. Down below is my question and my hypothesis.
Research question: What motivated young British teens to turn England into a rock and roll powerhouse between 1960s and 1970s?
My hypothesis: Based on several documentaries (Eric Clapton Life in 12 Bars, Jimmy Page's autobiography, several Black Sabbath documentaries, and several Pink Floyd documentaries) I hypothesize that post-war England had a profound impact on the lives and upbringings of the musicians. Specifically, the parenting styles and societal values of people that just recently overcame the war led many young people born after the war to be discontent with what society had to offer. As such, these rebellious teens would have rather ventured away from the career path of going to college or working in factories and instead followed their passions for music. Their experiences of being brought up in a society that was still recovering from the devastating war and raised by parents still psychologically impacted by the war fueled their lyric writing. That coupled with England's fascination with early American blues led the youth to form a "counter culture" of sorts that used the blues as a basis for their own music and writings against war and English societal values.
I was just pondering this the other day. Bands that have the nwobhm sound but are from other countries. I am Canadian so some Canadian bands would be epic!
Also after punk not just ska punk. Any sub genre I love.
Basically, post Beatles bands. Catchy basslines or heavy on electric pianos/Moog synthesizer. Songs like Good Morning Judge (10cc), Dear Angie (Badfinger) and Breakfast In America (Supertramp).
The music video is clips of fans singing/ playing along to the song. Several of the people from the original video were in the remake, including an Asian looking dude who now has a kid and they're both rocking out together (they could well be British, but their ancestry looks East Asian). There's an interval in the middle for hand sanitising by an NHS nurse. Please help me find this song!
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