Instrumental hitmakers tended to be one-hit wonders. The exceptions were a ’60s trumpeter who pretended to be Latin, and an ’80s sax player named Kenny.
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There was no 3rd British Invasion ’90s U.K. bands made British music for Britons: Britpop popular at home but with rare exception not across the Atlantic.
In the mid-’60s and again in the mid-’80s, being British went from liability to asset on the U.S. charts, as U.K. bands taught the Yanks some new moves.