There’s a lot of musicians who are huge in Europe, but not in the US. Robbie Williams, Anastacia, most of Eurodance,… What musicians are the other way round?
There’s a lot of musicians who are huge in Europe, but not in the US
Is that true?
Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Primal Scream, Queen, The Jam, Status Quo, ABBA, Cliff Richard, Mando Diao, Manic Street Preachers, Take That, The Libertines….
Country artists. Even Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are unknown to most of Europe.
Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash certainly are known.
They don’t make ridiculous hillbilly garbage.That is taking it a bit too far. Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are definitely known, especially because they kinda crossed over into over genres than straight country, but 99% of other country artists aren’t.
Grateful Dead
Dave Matthews Band
PhishIt’s hard to imagine stoner bands not doing well in Europe. Maybe it’s just because they’d start heading across the pond, get distracted, and turn around?
I guess we had enough of our own stoner bands (or stoned-friendly bands) with the likes of Pink Floyd; Yes; Jethro Tull; Hawkwind; Ozric Tentacles; Emerson, Lake & Palmer, etc.
Though American acts like Frank Zappa and Canadian acts like Rush made inroads.
- Released over 30 albums since the early 1970s, of which nine were multi-platinum
- Worth over $500m when he died in 2023
- To the best of my knowledge, never even on the radar in the UK or Europe.
I grew up in the UK in the 80s & 90s, which seems to be the period he was really becoming huge in the US, and I had never heard of him until he died a couple of years ago.
The UK is Europe…
Not according to them
You can’t just decide to not be part of a continent.
gestures broadly at Brexit
It’s a joke, mate
