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English Miniature from a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose. Music in the British Isles, from the earliest recorded times until the Baroque and the rise of recognisably modern classical music, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. [11]
Spice Girls the best-selling female group of all time, one of the best-selling pop groups of all time, [1] [2] and the biggest British pop phenomenon since Beatlemania. [3] [4] [5] Among the highest profile acts in 1990s British popular culture, Time called them "arguably the most recognisable face" of Cool Britannia, the mid-1990s celebration of youth culture in the UK. [6]
Music of the United Kingdom developed in the 1960s into one of the leading forms of popular music in the modern world. By the early 1960s the British had developed a viable national music industry and began to produce adapted forms of American music in Beat music and British blues which would be re-exported to America by bands such as the Beatles, the Animals and the Rolling Stones.
British pop music is popular music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom.It emerged in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to American rock 'n' roll.Like American pop music it has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, as well as that of the Singles Chart usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs.
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, John Mayall, Eric ...
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It was important in establishing British youth and popular music culture and was a key factor in subsequent developments that led to the British Invasion of the mid-1960s. Since the 1960s, some stars of the genre, most notably Cliff Richard , have managed to sustain successful careers and there have been periodic revivals of this form of music.
Tea is to England what beer and hot dogs are to America.But as ingrained as tea is in the fabric of British culture, it takes a history lesson to explain how the drink actually became so popular.