The British Invasion: Joey Leone Performance

Enjoy a fun and unique combination of music performance and historical content as Joey Leone performs his show "The British Invasion."

The term “British Invasion” represented the fast-paced rise to fame and popularity of UK based bands in the United States. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Donovan, The Kinks, The Animals, were some of the groups that quickly rose to the top of US charts with primetime appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, and widespread media coverage including the CBS Evening News. Joey highlights the phenomenon of these British bands and how they reshaped the landscape of not only American music, but of pop culture as well. We also learn how the English musicians, who were heavily influenced by the music of African Americans, reintroduced black music to the mainstream through their covers of blues and R&B songs previously unavailable to white audiences.