The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there.

@rtorchia - LOL, you had one of those music teachers as well eh? We had one in middle school that said ALL music fell into three categories: Classical, Opera, and The Big Beat.  He viewed everything outside of Classical and Opera as indistinguishable trash that was nothing more than primitives beating on something to make noise so they could jump around in synchronicity.

He was a thrill a minute, let me tell you. To be fair, we did learn about troglodytes at an earlier age than most...

It wouldn't be right if one of us old farts didn't give a big thank you to television shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, Shindig, Hullabaloo and American Bandstand.   

The Beatles, The Dave Clark 5, Rolling Stones, The Who, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, James Brown, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, Roy Orbison, The Animals, etc. 

Without music video or YouTube, these shows were our only opportunity to "see" our favourite musicians perform. All pre-lip syncing, so the performances were 100% real and were usually performed exactly like we heard on whatever AM station you listened to. Even Bob Dylan.    

Great times and great memories from the golden age of pop music.

Hilarious, I too had extremely miltaristic  female chorus teacher in 9th grade. Got kicked out of class for year for failure to conform, had to sit in principle's office for the year, deprived of all books, anything to read or distract me. Staring at the wall for 45 minutes every day. Funny thing was, I loved singing in chorus and was told I had perfect pitch.

Have to admit, I was a young radical, garage rock and later bands like MC5, Stooges, and even later,  hard core mosh pits  attracted me.

We always had the contentious Beethoven or Shubert arguments about the latest music when I was growing up...

Ok I was a teenager then and the Beatles and the Dave Clark 5 were like in one category and then you had the Rolling Stones....who weren't....