And speaking of the British Invasion, check out the theme song, below, that was written for the show and sadly never used.
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In the 1960s, there was the British Invasion, followed by disco in the 1970s and the rise of glam metal in the 1980s.
Presley and the Troggs scored their breakthrough hit "Wild Thing" in the early days of the British invasion started by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Like many artists of his era, Gene Pitney's career fell victim to the British invasion led by the Beatles in 1964, but he continued to tour and perform.
The Beatles and the British Invasion didn't slow Mr. Barry.
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Sensing a hunger for foreign acts before the British invasion, the Bronx-born Mr. Gottehrer claimed his own band, the Strangeloves, was from Australia a gimmick, he said, that boosted booking fees.
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This is where the Fab Four stayed when they first came to Hollywood in 1964, no doubt trailed by dozens of screaming girls and photographers as they ushered in the British Invasion.
Since his days in The Yardbirds as part of the British invasion of the 1960s, Beck has picked and plucked and whammy bar'd his way to true Guitar Hero status ( and not the video game kind).
The British invasion hadn't started yet, nor had corporate America scorched musical innovation by giving our best musical minds two options - either squeeze yourself into some marketal niche-like easy listening or go cut a record for a label that won't market you and can bail you forward to get you into the stores.
In the days before the invasion British intelligence became aware that a military crisis was fast approaching.
No mention of contemporary music can fail to note its most essential import, the celebrated "British invasion" of the 1960s, first to America and soon to the world beyond.
Born in New Zealand, Finn was influenced by the classic sounds of British Invasion bands like the Beatles and Kinks, but also by the music of New Zealand's native Maori people.
In November 2006, the IAEA again expressed concern regarding the Iraqi nuclear program whose existence it had denied ahead of the US-British invasion.
Right up to the US-British invasion of Iraq in March 2003, ElBaradei consistently maintained that he either couldn't tell if Iraq was or was not pursuing nuclear weapons, or that he could see no evidence that Saddam Hussein was pursuing nuclear weapons.
" The Kuwaiti report stated that the Syrian nuclear program was based "on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai transferred to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003.
Washington was politically inconvenienced by the need to support the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt as it condemned the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
The Carolinas were invaded by the British in the Revolutionary war, and during one invasion the Brits stepped into a trap that the Americans set.
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In 1759, in the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet commanded by Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet under Admiral Conflans.
Adebolajo had been a follower of Al-Muhajiroun, a British group of Islamic extremists virulently opposed to British participation in the invasion of Iraq and openly supportive of al Qaeda, according to several Al-Muhajiroun insiders.
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In 1982 the country's military dictators gambled that grabbing the islands, a far-flung relic of the British empire, by military invasion would allow them to cling to power on a wave of popular acclaim.
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The Americans and British cited Security Council resolutions as the legal basis of their invasion.
In 1943, U.S. 7th and British 8th armies began the invasion of Sicily.
The next time Parliament was recalled was in the wake of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in April 1982, so that the British reaction could be discussed.
Sadrists control only one province, Maysan, which was under British administration after the 2003 US-led invasion.
After the 2003 invasion by U.S. and British forces, their lives got steadily worse and their basic freedoms were eroded.
There have been moments of British hubris, notably around the time of the Iraq invasion.
British troops have been in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001.
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