Focus on the Brits A wave of prominent performers, those who „invaded America” and the few who stayed out of it.

Iconic Beatles Handbook „…undoubtely most popular group of rock ‘n’ roll era” – Very influential together, later careers less successful for all, embarrassing for some – Lennon- McCartney stand out as songwriters – Ringo only a mediocre drummer? What is there to include? Most chart topping early songs on both sides of the Atlantic are love songs: simplicity and energy – She loves you, 1963 Ye, ye, ye angered conservatives – I Want to Hold Your Hand,1963 – Can’t Buy Me Love, 1964

Later Beatles: Variety Cessation of live concerts – 1966, studio then – A Hard Day’s Night, 1964, from eponymous album Also the title of a comedy, with the band acting – Help and Yesterday, from Help – Video footage – Elanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine, from Revolver, – Lucy in the Sky…, from Sergeant Pepper… 1967 Reportedly, first concept album – Variety of what?

A Hard… and Help! It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel alright You know I work all day to get you money to buy you things And it's worth it just to hear you say you're going to give me everything So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone You know I feel OK When I'm home everything seems to be right When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel alright, oww So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone You know I feel OK When I'm home everything seems to be right When I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel alright You know I feel alright You know I feel alright Help, I need somebody Help, not just anybody Help, you know, I need someone Help (When) When I was younger, so much younger than today (I never needed) I never needed anybody's help in any way (now) But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured (and now I find) Now I find, I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you, please, please help me? (Now) And now my life has changed in, oh, so many ways (my independence) My independence seems to vanish in the haze (but) But every now and then I feel so insecure (I know that I) I know that I just need you like I've never done before Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you, please, please help me? When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed anybody's help in any way (now) But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured (and now I find) Now I find, I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you, please, please help me? Help me, help me

Yesterday and Lucy in the... Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3 Ah Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers That grow so incredibly high Newspaper taxis appear on the shore Waiting to take you away Climb in the back with your head in the clouds And you're gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3 Ah Picture yourself on a train in a station With plasticine porters with looking glass ties Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3 Ah Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3 Ah Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3

Individual agendas: the end is nigh The individualisation went on: Who needed the band any more? – Strawberry Fields /Penny Lane, from Magical Mystery Tour, – Octopus’s Garden, 1969, Abbey Road – Get back and Let it Be, 1970, from eponymous album

Strawberry and Penny Lane Let me take you down 'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me Let me take you down 'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever No one I think is in my tree I mean it must be high or low That is you know you can't tune it But it's all right That is I think it's not too bad Let me take you down 'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever Always know sometimes it's me But you know I know when it's a dream I think I know I mean a "Yes" But it's all wrong That is I think I disagree Let me take you down 'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever x3 Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs Of every head he's had the pleasure to know. And all the people that come and go Stop and say "Hello". On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, And little children laugh at him behind his back. And the banker never wears a mac In the pouring rain, very strange. Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass, And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen. He likes to keep his fire engine clean, It's a clean machine. Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. A four of fish and finger pies In summer. Meanwhile back Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray. And though she feels as if she's in a play, She is anyway. In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer, We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim, And then the fireman rushes in From the pouring rain - very strange. Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back. Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. There beneath the blue suburban skies Penny Lane!

Octopus I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade He'd let us in, knows where we've been In his octopus' garden in the shade I'd ask my friends to come and see An octopus' garden with me I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade. We would be warm below the storm In our little hideaway beneath the waves Resting our head on the sea bed In an octopus' garden near a cave We would sing and dance around Because we know we can't be found I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade We would shout and swim about The coral that lies beneath the waves (Lies beneath the ocean waves) Oh what joy for every girl and boy Knowing they're happy and they're safe (Happy and they're safe) We would be so happy you and me No one there to tell us what to do I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden with you.

A forerunners: The Cream Blues-based „supergroup” trio – Clapton, Bruce … From where? – Inclusion in this course is justified because their music previews much of what was to follow. Dance the Night Away from Disraeli Gears, 1967 – reunion – Significance: The ascendancy of blues- based rock music for the next years, well into the 1980s.

Dance the Night Away Gonna build myself a castle High up in the clouds. There'll be skies outside my window; Lose these streets and crowds. Dance the night away. Wil find myself an ocean, Sail into the blue, Live with the swordfish, Forget the time of you. Dance the nught away. Dance myself to nothing. Vanish from this place. Gonna turn myself to shadow So I can't see your face. Dance the night away.

The Kinks The band that did not go to America – Ban anyway – Socially perceptive lyrics not applicable in US – would not be understood – A BA. Thesis my own vynil double set Rock and Roll Hall of Fame song „Well Respected Man” – h?v=_bQsGiiPVFo h?v=_bQsGiiPVFo

Well Respected Man 'Cause he gets up in the morning And he goes to work at nine And he comes back home at five-thirty Gets the same train every time 'Cause his world is built 'round punctuality It never fails And he's oh, so good And he's oh, so fine And he's oh, so healthy In his body and his mind He's a well-respected man about town Doing the best thing so conservatively And his mother goes to meetings While his father pulls the maid And she stirs the tea with councilors While discussing foreign trade And she passes looks, as well as bills At every suave young man 'Cause he's oh, so good And he's oh, so fine And he's oh, so healthy In his body and his mind He's a well-respected man about town Doing the best thing so conservatively And he likes his own backyard And he likes his fags the best 'Cause he's better than the rest And his own sweat smells the best And he hopes to grab his father's loot When Pater passes on 'Cause he's oh, so good And he's oh, so fine And he's oh, so healthy In his body and his mind He's a well-respected man about town Doing the best thing so conservatively And he plays at stocks and shares And he goes to the regatta He adores the girl next door 'Cause he's dying to get at her But his mother knows the best about The matrimonial stakes 'Cause he's oh, so good And he's oh, so fine And he's oh, so healthy In his body and his mind He's a well-respected man about town Doing the best thing so conservatively

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