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

Beatles and , being from Illinois,  listened to a lot of Chicago blues guys.

It was a War, Santana, Grand Funk Railroad, The Temptations, The Supremes, James Brown, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Tiny Tim?

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and a little Jene Autry.

Hi-yo silver, and Mister Green Jeans was cool.. SO???

Dave Clark 5? I don’t think so.. BB King, Little Richard maybe the Everly Brothers..

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I forgot Creedence Clearwater Revival.. Mercy that was a main stay, the heart of rock and roll, Led Zeppelin too..

Lawrence Welk was my grandmothers stuff.. She loved him..

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grew up from an early age listening to much of these records from my parents collection. the who, stones, zeppelin, thin lizzy, yardbirds, still love Jeff Beck solo stuff, 
as mentioned a lot of blues as well, bb king, clarence brown, buddy guy, junior wells, kook taylor, muddy waters, etc, we lived in the chicago burbs for a while, and parents had a lot of records. a nice big collection of rock/blues/psychedelic/ folk, etc etc/............

 don't think i qualify, as i was just a wee mite listening to my parents records, which my Dad would put a couple quarters or a half dollar on the head shell for better sound :)

  im glad i  always loved music, it has helped me through tough times!!

I didn't know that the Dave Clark Five were a Brit group.  Or, are you comparing Brit to American, a la the Beatles (Brit) and the Dave Clark Five (American ?).
Also, don't forget, "Herman's Hermits."