Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.

Many groups moved towards the beat music of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from skiffle, like the Quarrymen who became The Beatles, producing a form of rock and roll revivalism that carried them and many other groups to national success from about 1963 and to international success from 1964, known in America as the British Invasion.

** The Beatles release their Abbey Road album, receiving critical praise and enormous commercial success.

The song was generally well-received, Allmusic describing it as " funkier and more club-happy than The Beatles ' original " and was a commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number three in the UK pop charts and number eleven on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.

As The Beatles and other stars from Britain began to dominate the U. S. pop charts, Belafonte's commercial success diminished ; 1964's Belafonte at The Greek Theatre was his last album to appear in Billboards Top 40.

Produced by the former Beatles producer, George Martin No Place To Run failed to match up to the success of its predecessors, though it fractionally missed the UK Top 10.

The Beatles ' impact on America went far beyond commercial success, however, with the fact that the band wrote much of their own material being particularly influential on aspiring U. S. musicians.

Several groups that arose in the wake of The Beatles ' success were important in the evolution and expansion of the power pop style, such as The Hollies and The Monkees, as well as " softer " acts such as The Beau Brummels, The Cowsills, The Zombies and the " bubblegum " singles of the Kasenetz-Katz production team.

Following in the wake of the Beatles ' national and then international success, the Rolling Stones soon established themselves as the second most popular UK band and joined the British Invasion of the American record charts as leaders of a second wave of R & B orientated bands.

The Beatles influence on rock music and popular culture was, and remains, immense. Their commercial success started an almost immediate wave of changes — including a shift from US global dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from soloists to groups, from professional songwriters to self-penned songs, and to changes in fashion.

At the peak of their success, the Monkees outsold The Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined, selling over 35 million records, and having four consecutive Number 1 albums in the year 1967 alone.

His first success was a play about The Beatles called John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert.

Vee-Jay had significant success with rock and roll acts, notably The Four Seasons ( their first non-black act ) and The Beatles ( Vee-Jay acquired the rights to some of the early Beatles recordings in a licensing deal with EMI in which the main attraction at the time was another EMI performer, Frank Ifield ).

The advent of MTV and cable video helped spur what has been seen as a Second British Invasion in the early years of the decade, with British bands enjoying more success in America than they had since the height of The Beatles ' popularity in the 1960s.

The commercial success of the first " Stars On 45 " single started a medley craze in the years of 1981, 1982 and 1983, with a multitude of similar, more or less anonymous studio productions being released by both minor and major record labels in both Continental Europe and the U. K., such as Hits On 45 with " Disco Beatles ", Disco On 33 with " 28 Hits of the Superstars ", Disco Dancing On 33 with " Disco Dancing On 33 ", Magazine 60 with " Magazine 60 ", Intro Disco with " Intro Disco ", Startrax with their Bee Gees medley " Startrax Club Disco ", Tight Fit with " Back to the 60's Vol.

The band continued to perform around the UK and gained success as a live act, drawing comparisons to The Beatles due to their origins, vaguely Merseybeat sound, and Mavers ' expressive lyrics.

Several of his songs achieved later success as revivals, by The Beatles (" Bad Boy ", " Slow Down ", and " Dizzy Miss Lizzy "), The Rolling Stones (" She Said Yeah ") and John Lennon (" Bony Moronie " and " Dizzy Miss Lizzy ").

The advent of MTV and cable video helped spur what has been seen as a Second British Invasion in the early years of the decade, with British bands enjoying more success in America than they had since the height of the Beatles ' popularity in the 1960s.

After the national success of The Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, and Cilla Black.

Clyde once guest-starred in an episode of the American sitcom My Three Sons, when Chip Douglas is excited that someone from Liverpool was coming to visit and expected him to be a talented musician, implying the success of The Beatles.

Manager Brian Epstein was getting worried about the Beatles ' lack of commercial success in America — their earlier singles had flopped there — and so he encouraged Lennon and McCartney to write a song that would appeal to American listeners.

By 18 January, the song had started its fifteen-week chart run, and on 1 February, the Beatles finally achieved their first number-one in America, emulating the success of another British group, the Tornados with " Telstar ", which was number one on the Billboard charts for three weeks over Christmas and New Year 1962 / 63.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Steven DeRose argues that HTML's use of descriptive markup ( and SGML in particular ) was a major factor in the success of the Web, because of the flexibility and extensibility that it enabled ( other factors include the notion of URLs and the free distribution of browsers ).

Bizet's professional relationship with Léon Carvalho, manager of the independent Théâtre Lyrique company, enabled him to bring to the stage two full-scale operas, Les pêcheurs de perles ( 1863 ) and La jolie fille de Perth ( 1867 ), but neither enjoyed much public success.

His success as a practitioner of modern architecture and his prominence as an academic, enabled Stone to form bonds with other academics of the era like Walter Gropius ( Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design ), Pietro Belluschi ( Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning ), George Howe ( Chairman of Yale University ’ s School of Architecture ) and William Wurster ( co-founder of the University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design ).

The commercial success of this book enabled Huysmans to retire from the civil service and live on his royalties.

Barker's theatrical success enabled him to move into radio work.

The financial success of his books enabled Irving to buy a home in the prestigious Mayfair district of London, own a Rolls-Royce car, and to enjoy a very affluent lifestyle.

Its success enabled Lord to leave the world of advertising and become a full-time writer.

Moberg became a full-time writer when the success of Raskens enabled him to devote himself entirely to writing.

The visit was a huge success, however, and enabled him to free some of the missionaries who had been illegally jailed.

The success of this film and other shorts enabled Dash to move to feature films.

His appeal to all republicans to sink their differences before the common peril met with some degree of success, and enabled the government to leave the second court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus at Rennes an absolutely free hand, and then to compromise the affair by granting a pardon to Dreyfus.

He followed on this success with short stories, such as Rondon tō (" Tower of London ") in 1905 and the novels Botchan (" Little Master "), and Kusamakura (" Grass Pillow ") in 1906, which established his reputation, and which enabled him to leave his post at the university for a position with Asahi Shimbun in 1907, and to begin writing full-time.

Although it enabled the newly created Port of Manchester to become Britain's third busiest port — despite the city being about 40 miles ( 64 km ) inland — the canal never achieved the commercial success its sponsors had hoped for.

The success of the Order enabled it to establish a church and hospital which was dedicated to St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Wallenstein ’ s success as a military commander brought him fiscal credit, which in turn enabled him to receive loans to buy lands, many of them being the former estates of conquered Bohemian nobles.

The film's success enabled Spielberg to establish himself as a film director.

That success enabled the WFM to expand dramatically over the next decade, to the point where it had over two hundred locals in thirteen states.

The ensuing success of this installation enabled Hammond to put this venture on both a commercial and legal footing, as a number of shop owners wanted to use the new electric light.

At the close of his apprenticeship he was enabled, by correspondence with dealers in other cities, to establish himself in the business with some assurance of success.

The success of his shop enabled Donaghey to marry Miss Wallace, a South Carolina native, in September 1887, a marriage that would last fifty years but which would not yield any children.

Its continued success has enabled us to release other works.

The engine was a rousing success, prompting investors to buy stock in B & O, which enabled the company to buy Cooper's iron rails, making him what would be his first fortune.