The Britons, who are notoriously proud to be British at any given moment in their lives - even when their Royals run away from Wembley Stadium after having lost EURO 2020 to Italy so they won’t have to crown somebody else - invented the term British Invasion to define bands like The Beatles, The Animals, The Tremeloes, The Merseybeats, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Zombies and many others that entered the US charts in the 1960s and became famous and acclaimed in America thereafter.

And they are right in having conceived a special word for that, because breaking in the States really is a special...