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Baby blue with pink polka dots. Dare to be different!

And I think your premise would cause some big butterflies that have nothing to do with how much or how little we like certain bands.

Just because you say something would've happened doesn't mean it would have, butterflies cause even more butterflies. Your butterflying away the Beatles and their three hit songs is a lot of butterflies and the DC5's 1964 hit could've been butterflied away in many ways we can't can't see. In an...

All the British bands of the BI would have existed without the Beatles because they all came into existence around the same time as the Beatles but the question is who would have gotten a record deal and who would have had the first hits.

I think only @horrorny can answer this question but maybe give it a paintjob similar to pre-war Polish tanks?

Nice. I almost did an alt-album by The Mosquitos but then didn't now I'm thinking I should have.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion and yours has made for a very enjoyable thread for someone like myself who loves the music from the 1960's and for the record mostly what I've posted here has been just my opinion as well.

I wish I had half your skills Claymore. Brilliant work.

The Beatles first record with EMI "Love Me Do" made the Top 20 and peaked at 17, "Please Please Me" their Second release was a number 1 hit and She Loves you their third release also became a number 1 and almost every single The Beatles released after that hit the number one spot in either...

But none of them were hits, they wouldn't have one until 64 and aside from Glad all Over most of their songs have been forgotten. I just don't think the DC5 would be the Brit band to get the ball rolling.

I'm not a fan of the Hermits but I think they'd of appeal to the British record execs of that era, very commercial boy-band-ish syrupy gloop that would appeal to teen-age girls. I also thought the Who's stage act (smashing instruments) would start a buzz going around and someone in the record...

Very interesting. What do you think of the chance that the Kinks or the Who or lol Herman's hermits being the first rock band to make it big in Britain and then the US in a world with no Beatles?

According to everything I've read The Dave Clark 5 didn't record anything until late 1963 but websites do get things wrong but I do know they didn't have a "hit" record until January 1964.

Weren't a lot of these songs composed by Terry "Geezer" Butler?

But you never say how they start only that they were good enough and that's not always enough, I'm asking what changes with the record execs that they decide to give TDC5 a record deal in 63 without any of OTL's contributions? TDC5 got a record deal after the Beatles had three hits in the top...

I could see the DC5 being butterflied if the Beatles are butterflied first, its all about timing and if the DC5 aren't signed in 1963 and I don't think they would've been without the Beatles three prior hits then the DC5 may have just missed their shot. In such a scenario the Kinks, Herman's...

I agree with you, before there can be a British invasion there has to be one very big successful band in Britain and the the Beatles were that band. British record companies didn't start signing guitar driven rock band until after the Beatles had three hit songs in the British top 40. If the...

I totally agree with you that the Zombies had more staying power than many of the early British Invasion bands and we should also remember that there were a lot of British bands of that era that were just one hit wonders and are pretty much forgotten today. Bands like the Dave Clark Five, the...

There was a period between the time that Buddy Holly died, Chuck Berry got arrested, Elvis got drafted and Little Richard retired from performing to become a reverend where Rock music took a hard hit, there are conspiracy theories that it was a government plot, I don't subscribe to any of these...

I never said the British Invasion wouldn't have happened or that The Dave Clark 5 wouldn't have eventually gotten a record contract just that if you butterfly the Beatles there would follow other butterflies. The Dave Clark 5 got signed after the Beatles did and may not have gotten that TV...