Did the 1960s British Invasion change rock 'n roll for the better? (bands, blues)

[Mopac1980]

Did the 1960s British Invasion change rock 'n roll for the better?

[bellalunatic]

Yes.

[TKramar]

I think so.

[Richmonder27]

No.

[BigSwede]

No.
Most of the bands from the british invasion was crap and their covers of 50s rock'n'roll were mostly horrible.
Rolling Stones and Beatles were good,but not many others.
I think the hippie era was better.

[FlashM]

My answer is yes.
Most of my rock favs are British as they are great.

[aardvarks]

I too say yes and it's a big YES

[newmex]

All we had at the time was surf music and Andy Williams, and the Four Seasons.

Motown was just getting started.

Nice that the British reinvented the R&R wheel and rolled it in our direction.

Much of this was due to the appreciation of our 30's through 50's R&B, which white audiences here loathed it through bigotry, or covered it with white performers and "crackerized" it for white bow-tied Perry Como audiences.

Sh-boom, Sh-boom was a good example.

[Bluesmama]

I tend to agree with BigSwede. Yes, they took rock-pop in a new direction for awhile.

But as mainly a blues fan, I have never been fond of 'British blues'.

[ExPit]

I agree that the original blues, the stuff coming from the Southern U.S., mostly from black musicians, is on the whole better than the derivatives coming from Led and Clapton and others; but if you're comparing the British Invasion stuff with the mainstream American rock 'n roll of the fifties, Elvis, Pat Boone, The Philly sound, the West Coast surfer stuff, Hollywood's white washed mutation and just general Doo-Wop, then I think the British Invasion was a step in the right direction, at least gave the old Blues guys like Muddy and Willie and Howlin' Wolf their due, and it was a step in the right direction.