Claim: The Beatles were a band.

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s , when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom , as well as other aspects of British culture , became popular in the United States , and significant to rising `` counterculture '' on both sides of the Atlantic . Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles , the Dave Clark Five , the Kinks , the Rolling Stones , Herman 's Hermits , and the Animals were at the forefront of the invasion .