He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

Cream ( band ) | Cream, one of the psychedelic influenced bands of the British blues movement, c. 1966

Existing " British Invasion " acts now joined the psychedelic revolution, including Eric Burdon ( previously of The Animals ), and The Small Faces and The Who whose The Who Sell Out ( 1967 ) included psychedelic influenced tracks " I Can See for Miles " and " Armenia City in the Sky ".

1967 saw the Beatles release the double A-side " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " Penny Lane ", opening a strain of British " pastoral " or " nostalgic " psychedelia, followed by the release of what is often seen as their definitive psychedelic statement in Sgt.

As they moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic experimentation German bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust developed a distinctive brand of electronic rock, known as kosmische musik, or in the British press as " Kraut rock ".

An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock band have used the name " Tin Tin ", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was similarly inspired by the character.

Disraeli Gears is often considered to be the band's defining effort, successfully blending psychedelic British rock with American blues.

* World of Oz, a British psychedelic band

Interest in Mucha's distinctive style experienced a strong revival during the 1960s ( with a general interest in Art Nouveau ) and is particularly evident in the psychedelic posters of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, the collective name for British artists Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, and Bob Masse.

However, the British Invasion and the rise of folk rock and psychedelic rock in the middle 1960s shifted the focus of new rock music away from the rural south and to large cities like Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.

Despite the fact the band were together just four years in their original incarnation, the Small Faces ' music output from the mid to late sixties remains among the most acclaimed British mod and psychedelic music of that era.

Inspired by British psychedelic folk and the North-American style of folk rock, Pentangle, Fairport, and other related bands began to incorporate elements of traditional British folk music into their repertoire.

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music ; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electronic organs, synthesizers, experimental guitar work and science fiction or astronomical lyrical themes, though it was later repurposed to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands that drew from earlier influences to create a more ambient but still melodic form of pop music.

David Daltrey, front man of British psychedelic band Tales of Justine, played the role of Joseph ; and Tim Rice was Pharaoh.

Like their American, British and international counterparts, German rock musicians played a kind of psychedelic music.

* Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964 – 1969, a Rhino Records box set of non-U. S. psychedelic rock released between 1964 and 1969

In the 1970s British musicians played a major part in developing the new forms of music that had emerged from blues rock towards the end of the 1960s, including folk rock and psychedelic rock.

One of the original British psychedelic groups, they were also instrumental in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.

They released their debut single ' Love Makes Sweet Music ' / ' Feelin ' Reelin ', Squeelin ' in February 1967, making it one of the first recordings from the new British psychedelic movement.

During the 1980s, Cardiacs were a professed influence or inspiration for Marillion, It Bites and British psychedelic acts such as Ring ; during the 1990s, emerging bands and musicians who were Cardiacs fans included Blur, Radiohead, Supergrass Shane Embury of Napalm Death, Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, The Scaramanga Six, The Monsoon Bassoon and The Wildhearts ( who would later pay direct tribute via their track " Tim Smith " on 2009's Chutzpah !).

* The Animals, a British rock band

* Atomic Rooster, a British progressive rock band

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During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

* Urban Blitz ( born 1951 ), British rock musician

* Blitz ( band ), a British punk rock band

Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.

* Cyan was a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

" It has been noted that British punk rock critics of disco were very supportive of the pro-black / anti-racist reggae genre.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Forth ( album ), album by British rock band The Verve

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

* Fugazi ( album ), a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named " Fugazi "

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.