Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits return to B.R.

In this 50th anniversary year of the British Invasion — that musical and cultural revolution whose more obvious touchstones include the Beatles’ “Ed Sullivan Show” debut on Feb. 9, 1964 — Peter Noone, lead singer of second-wave British Invasion band Herman’s Hermits, hopes his likewise enormously popular group doesn’t get lost in the mix.

Herman’s Hermits, a quintet from Manchester, England, starring the 16-year-old Noone, launched their lengthy stretch of hits in the summer of 1964 with a bouncing Carole King-Gerry Goffin song, “I’m Into Something Good.”

Follow-ups included remakes of 1950s American hits “(What a) Wonderful World” and “Silhouettes,” the British music hall-inspired “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” and the beautifully romantic modern pop of “There’s a Kind of Hush.”

“I just hope the records get played,” Noone said from Southern California, his home since 1982. “Because sometimes people who weren’t there during the British Invasion miss Herman’s Hermits. They always go ‘Beatles, Dave Clark Five, Rolling Stones,’ and then they go to the Who and the Kinks. They overlook the other people. But in 1965 we sold more records than anybody.”

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