The British Blues Revival (Stones-Type)

1. The British Blues Revival (Stones-Type) • Bad boys, in contrast to the Beatles-type image • Followed the lead of the Rolling Stones • Drew on tradition of Chicago electric blues from 1950s • Spawned a wave of enthusiasm for collecting and performing American blues

2. Rolling Stones, Zurich, 1967

3. The British Blues Revival (Stones-Type) • Rolling Stones, 1962–1966 • Formed by guitarist Brian Jones as a blues band • Managed by Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton, 1963 • Started move toward pop in 1963 • Early recordings • Covered songs by American artists • “I Wanna Be Your Man” by Lennon and McCartney • Jagger and Richards achieve success as songwriters in 1964 • Did not achieve widespread success in America until 1965 • Preferred contrasting verse-chorus rather than AABA

4. The British Blues Revival (Stones-Type) • Yardbirds • Guitarists included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page • Used studio musicians on early records • Recorded in Chicago at Chess

5. Yardbirds

6. The British Blues Revival (Stones-Type) • Animals • Reputation from wild stage act • “House of the Rising Sun” (1964) • Bassist Chas Chandler became manager for Jimi Hendrix in 1966 • Spencer Davis Group

7. Animals (Eric Burdon)

8. The British Blues Revival • Other British groups did not fit into Beatles/Stones categories • Kinks • Formed in 1963 • Aggressive pop approach • “You Really Got Me” (1964) • Mirrored the Beatles move into artistic songwriting, 1965

9. The Kinks

10. The British Blues Revival • Who • Not influential until the late 1960s • Never made the U.S. Top 40 during the mid-1960s • Representative of the Mod subculture in London

11. The Who, 1967

12. Transformation of American Popular Music • Rise of the Beatles transformed popular music • Opened doors for British acts within the UK • Opened new opportunities for British acts outside the UK • British Invasion established a cross fertilization between U.S. and UK