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[dacotv]

...his father PULLS the maid. These are the lyrics

[gdholmfirth]

I was there. The Kinks had their sound, and were great. The Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Animals, The Dave Clark 5, they all had their place. But anyone who doubts for a moment that The Beatles did not open the door for everyone and create the whole fascination with 'The British Invasion" and everything British in the US in 1964 just don't know. They changed the hairstyles, the clothing, the very interest in music itself.

[erickmac88]

@dchs11 "can't owe it to just one band for creating popularity for others." Very true.

[shanehenning26]

happy birthday ray davies

[dchs11]

very true. but we can never really tell what could have happened if so-so would have (or would not have)done such and such. i mean such great bands as those back in the 60s would have been sure to have had some exposure eventually.

[OropherThranduil]

@dchs11

none of those bands would have find a label across the atlantic, i mean even the beatles had a very tough start over there.

and we shouldn't forget that without the beatles the stones wouldn't have their first hit, which was wirtten by the beatles, also the stones wouldn't have started writing own songs without seeing them finish one of before their eyes, just like decca would have never taken then under contract without george harrisons suggestion.

the beatles started the stones career

[dchs11]

of course before the beatles no one gave a shit about british music. but that "first band to make it big in the U.S." position is interchangeable. put the stones, kinks, animals there, and people would still have loved british bands.

[OropherThranduil]

@dchs11

come on for gods sake.

everybody knows before the beatles america hasn't given a shit about british bands, only big hit was telstar, witohut the beatles and their having 1 to 5 single spots, 12 songs in top 100 and occupying the first two album places (with two released albums) the british invasion wouldn't have happened.

and since most countrys take their music from the states no british band could have get really big in those days.

[dchs11]

i truly doubt people wouldn't have given a shit about them. good music is good music. the beatles made British bands MORE popular and made people give them MORE of a chance than maybe they would've if they had not come to America first.

however, people will find good music. can't owe it to just one band for creating popularity for others. that's a disrespect to the others. downplaying their music.

[OropherThranduil]

@dchs11

yeah, let us all hail link wray and ike turner for inventing distorted guitar sounds.

wray had that sound years before the kinks, and like any big player of the early 60s dave was a fan of link, just like jimmy page and pete townshend.

they popularized it, yes, but without the beatles opening up the american market nobody would have given a shit about the kinks or stones or who.