I've been trying to think of a reply incorporating things like Northern Soul and how the English revived the careers of original fifties pioneers like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins amongst others after America forgot about them - but I can't without saying far too much. This topic could form a part of a general popular music history thread one day perhaps.The interesting thing for me is that wave of American musicians that arrived in the wake of the British invasion, white Americans playing black American music as interpreted by skinny British kids. It took the Brits to overcome the inherent racism that existed at the time in America and get them listening to their own music. I read an interview with a Stax/Volt musician who said that when their revue first toured England he'd never been in a room with so many white people at once and the response to the music just blew them away.