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The 60s was a legendary era for Music. Many British bands were born that later went on to become iconic, but the whole scene was born out of a need for something new and exciting as the new generation refused to conform to their parent’s idea of having a good time. Blues musicians became very popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. British blues soon became a distinct genre, and rock and roll, rockabilly, rhythm and blues and other forms of popular music mixed in the UK, resulting teen crazes such as mod and Merseybeat. By the mid-1960s, British rock dominated charts over much of the world, leading to the term British Invasion. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones(before Mick Jagger started to look a bit like a chicken and Keith Richards started falling out of coconut trees), The Yardbirds, The Animals and other British artists played pop and rock with grit and swagger. Bands such as the Stones and the Who developed out of the early blues scene, taking......

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