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The first British record to top the American singles charts
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand" entered the American Top 40
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand" reaches No. 1 on the American Top 40
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Official start of the "British Invasion" with screaming girls and a focus on the music from England
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Beatles now have five singles in Billboard magazine's Top Hundred
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The Beatles now hold the top 5 spots on the Billboard Top Hundred
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The Searchers perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show", the first band to do so since the Beatles
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"House of the Rising Sun" is debuted before audiences at New York's Paramount Theater
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"You Really Got Me" will eventually reach the Top 10
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"Downtown" takes the Number 1 spot in the US. She also has Top 10 hits "I Know a Place" and "Love Potion Number Nine".
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With their number 1 "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter," Herman's Hermits sell more singles in 1965 than any other groups except the Beatles
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55,600 fans make this the largest rock concert to date and the screaming completely drowns out the band
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Van Morrison leaves Belfast, Ireland based group "Them" and releases hit single "Brown Eyed Girl"
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David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to not be confused to Davy Jones
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John Lennon is quoted as saying the Beatles were now "more famous than Jesus". He later apologizes for this remark.
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The British Invasion taking over American television!
An NBC comedy series that follows a group of friends trying to make their way as a rock 'n' roll band. Their music made its way to the American Top 100 charts. -
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While groups like the Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Zombies, the Animals, the Kinks, and the Yardbirds continue making music and making the Top 100 charts, the British Invasion slows down as American based groups regain momentum.
