Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind.

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind, but enabling several to enjoy sustained careers that were not open to most of the more pop-oriented beat groups of the first wave of the invasion, who ( with the major exception of the Beatles ) were unable to write their own material or adapt to changes in the musical climate.

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