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KINKS
Their 1964 hit You Really Got Me ran on a raw, distorted guitar riff that many people still point to as an ancestor of hard rock.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ZOMBIES
They came from St Albans, and Time of the Season reached the American top ten in 1969, after the band had already split up.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ANIMALS
Their 1964 recording of The House of the Rising Sun, with Eric Burdon singing, went to number one in both Britain and America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TROGGS
Wild Thing, from 1966, hit number one in the United States and is built on just three chords.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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A British Invasion bands word search, free to print, full of the groups who followed the Beatles over to the American charts in 1964 and after.

About British Invasion Bands

In February 1964 the Beatles stepped off a plane at Kennedy Airport, and within weeks American radio was crowded with accents from Liverpool, Manchester and London. Other bands rode in behind them with their own records and a lot of borrowed American blues. Kids bought the singles at the drugstore counter, and the Sunday night variety shows did the rest.

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