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Submit Your ReviewRhino's nine-volume British Invasion: The History of British Rock is the most exhaustive and essential overview of '60s British pop/rock available. Although the collection doesn't include tracks from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, and the early Animals, their absence doesn't hurt the series, since it spotlights several artists who never had more than a handful of hits, plus many forgotten gems. And there are plenty of major acts here, as well: The Kinks, the Small Faces, the Yardbirds, Donovan, the Hollies, the Zombies, the Spencer Davis Group, the Searchers, Manfred Mann, and Them are all represented by their best-known tracks. The collection runs from the beginnings of Merseybeat to the aftermath of psychedelia, meaning that it chronicles the evolution of British pop/rock quite effectively. But The History of British Rock shouldn't be thought of as simply an educational overview of one of the most vital eras of pop; each volume is fun and exciting, and sounds more like a good time than a history lesson. The series is one of the cornerstones of any comprehensive pop/rock collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
The British Invasion: History of British Rock, Vols. 1-9
01/01/1991
All Music Guide Review
Track Listing
Credits
- The Hullaballoos
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- Nirvana
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- The Ivy League
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- Wayne Fontana
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- Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
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- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
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- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
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- The Moles
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- Eyes
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- Tommy Quickly
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- Merseys
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- Wild Uncertainty
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- Manfred Mann
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- Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas
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- The Tremeloes
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- The Eyes
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- The Hollies
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- The Honeycombs
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- Tom Jones
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- The Action
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- Dave Berry
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- The Big Three
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- Cilla Black
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- The Creation
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- Simon Dupree
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- Adam Faith
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- The Foundations
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- The Fourmost
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- The Herd
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- John's Children
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- Los Bravos
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- Lulu
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- Marmalade
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- The Mindbenders
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- The Mojos
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- The Pretty Things
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- The Rockin' Berries
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- The Silkie
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- The Smoke
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- The Sorrows
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- Sounds Incorporated
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- Status Quo
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- The Swinging Blue Jeans
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- Tomorrow
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- Unit 4+2
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- The Walker Brothers
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- Ian Whitcomb
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- Flying Machine
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- New Vaudeville Band
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- The Bachelors
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- Tony Sheridan
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- Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders
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- Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
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- The Fortunes
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- Jonathan King
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- The Animals
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- Argent
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- The Beatles
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- The Bee Gees
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- Chad & Jeremy
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- Petula Clark
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- Joe Cocker
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- Cream
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- The Spencer Davis Group
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- Deep Purple
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- Donovan
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- The Easybeats
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- Faces
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- Georgie Fame
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- Freddie & the Dreamers
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- Gerry & the Pacemakers
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- The Kinks
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- Billy J. Kramer
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- The Merseybeats
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- The Moody Blues
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- The Move
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- Thunderclap Newman
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- Peter & Gordon
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- Procol Harum
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- The Roulettes
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- The Searchers
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- The Seekers
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- The Small Faces
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- Dusty Springfield
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- Cat Stevens
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- Them
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- The Tornados
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- Brian Poole & the Tremeloes
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- The Troggs
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- The Yardbirds
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- The Zombies
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