Swinging Sixties Smashes Bleakness

It only made sense that the United Kingdom veered as far away from bleakness as possible in the ’60s. After the war, a cultural shift marked by trendy, colorful clothes to more exciting and experimental music spread across the country. This defining era was also when the British Invasion happened on the other side of the pond.

The Beatles is, perhaps, the greatest example of how the British were able to influence other cultures. Although the group embraced the ’50s rock and roll, its 1967 album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, influenced so many bands, including The Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, in the next decades.