British Invasion - Pop Save The Queen

There is much talk about the globalization of culture by Americans: Hollywood, rock'n'roll, rap, fast food, language in general. But what a surprise when we delve into the 1960s, to see America undergoing a real cultural invasion, a frontal attack that shook its artistic traditions in almost all areas - music, cinema, television, art, fashion, design, literature...

This is the British Invasion, led by pioneers such as James Bond, and completed by the triumphant arrival of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, alongside directors, actors,
photographers, stylists, producers of series, and even of cars – in the sixties, the Jaguar E-Type was the queen of the land of the automobile... The Americans were seduced by very British qualities: humor, irreverence, chic and – to use the English word – fun. This invasion has never really stopped since.

This book brings together the memories and personal tastes of two English speakers living in Paris, but who experienced the British Invasion on both sides of the Atlantic. Structured in the form of a conversation between the American Valli , singer and journalist, who grew up on the East Coast of the United States, then in London, and in New York in the middle of the punk period; and the Englishman Stephen Clarke , writer (A Year in the Merde), journalist and musician, this work reveals to us in a playful way the landing of English culture. Several areas are examined here (cinema, literature, ...), each one being associated with a playlist of flagship titles concocted by Valli and without losing sight of the emblematic figure of England, the Queen, with a chronology of the major Anglo-American events to demonstrate her contribution to this cultural British Invasion because Pop save the Queen!