Every pop-music era has its own personality. Still, it could be that the brief ascendency of the so-called British Invasion of America — which began the moment The Beatles’ airplane landed in New York in early 1964 and ended when The Byrds recorded their epochal single “Eight Miles High” in January 1966 — was modern pop’s definitive period. The Beatles, The Zombies and The Kinks reinvented rock ’n’ roll during the British Invasion, but there was a strain of more conservative music that arose in the wake of The Fab Four’s success. This week at City Winery, English producer and singer Peter Asher, who helped take Lennon and McCartney’s song “A World Without Love” into the charts in 1964 as half of the harmony duo Peter & Gordon, joins former Chad & Jeremy member Jeremy Clyde, who teamed up with Chad Stuart to sing another 1964 smash, “A Summer Song.” There was nothing complicated about the music of Peter & Gordon and Chad & Jeremy. It was affable, breezy and a little wistful — perfect pop from the most perfect of pop eras. EDD HURT
Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde
