How The Beatles destroyed the British Invasion

Every rock and rock music critic and historian has
written about how the Beatles and the rest of the
British Invasion of 1964 changed rock and roll
music and destroyed the careers of so many
American stars.

I've already gone through that too.

Now, I'd like to write about something which, to
the best of my (admittedly) limited reading in
the field for the past 30 years, nobody else
has pointed out. OK, maybe 50 people have, but
I haven't read rock and rock criticism or
fanzines for over 30 years, so here's my
take on it.

Two to three years after The Beatles led the
British Invasion into the American music
industry and destroyed so much of it -- they
destroyed the British Invasion.

That's the part I don't know of anybody else
writing about. Yes, let me repeat that for
you skimmers.

The Beatles DESTROYED the British Invasion.

How? By continuing to raise the bar.

See, they destroyed the 1963 American music
industry/scene by being BETTER than American
groups.

And of course, not just The Beatles, but
many of the English groups that followed
along with them, from The Yardbirds, The
Kinks, The Zombies (on only a few records),
The Animals and of course The Rolling
Stones.

American stars either rose to the challenge
(most notably, as previously written about,
The Beach Boys), met it for a time (Paul
Revere and the Raiders) or got left behind
in the remainder bins of musical history.

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