Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularise rock and roll. Since then, the UK has produced numerous popular performers in far-ranging fields from heavy metal to folk rock and drum n bass, as well as undergoing a renaissance in the ancient forms of folk music indigenous to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Music of the United Kingdom, along with that of the United States, arguably has one of the greatest effects on modern music worldwide.
See more at Wikipedia.org...