Invasion inversion

As I’m neither British nor have I been to the US, I feel spectacularly unqualified to invoke the British invasion. The other issue is that it is a bit of a catch-all in that not only was it ‘coals to Newcastle’ with the rhythm’n’blues and rock’n’roll but the bands who crossed the pond were caught up in(stigating) the change so is there anything not covered in our other sixties ruminations? Possibly not. The pressure’s off then

Billionaire’s Ballast

The name on the building
the sinkhole  filled in
or flying over your own isle
always go in what you call style

Your ship is surely equipped 
with the happier happening to be hip
Payment methods in mythic arraignment
the evanescent path to attainment
We're pleased you've thought us plutocrats
worthy of those stupid caps

The countries you court and the c#nts you control
 how you feel as you fill a hole
The steps the stops the stipulations
 leading to adulterated adulation
 search and destroy each situation

The inner circle jerk of innovation
rockets and sockets racked up salvation
it's another corner of the cornucopia
every magnate in their own utopia


Beat rude to me

Merseybeat deserves its own entry and we all know why even if the most prominent beat-titled band moved on. Beat groups sprung up and influenced the world with their own take on rock. It kept to the simple tale-telling rock’n’roll and R’n’B employed, along with their predilection for heart ache and chasing after the opposite sex.
The issue again is “Do we want to stick to this simple formula?” when this has been so well-covered here. The crux could be in what other influences are brought to beat music/British beat (not the band of that name, the genre). Wikipedia defines it thus

Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll (mainly Chuck Berry guitar style and the midtempo beat of Lubbock sound artists like Buddy Holly), doo-wop, skiffle and R&B.

You Turn Me Upside Down

I keep my nose to the ground
I'm the square there when you're around
proof once aloof in love now profound
You turn me upside down, girl (turn me upside down)
[RPT]

My feet can't compete with the noise on the street
You take me apart like it's art yet you make me complete
My shins shine where a grin should begin
My knees pressed where knows need to guess
The best moment not to be in
[chorus]
I liked being aright but you set me alight
  in standing and landing right
It was my head that said it could step instead
   into the light defining the night
[chorus]