Throughout its history, the United Kingdom has been a major exporter and source of musical innovation, drawing its cultural basis from the history of the United Kingdom, from church music, Western culture and the ancient and traditional flok music and instrumentation of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. In the 20th century, influences from the music of the United States became most dominant in popular music. This led to the explosion of the British Invasion, while subsequent notable movements in British music include the new wave of British heavy metal and Britpop. The United Kingdom has one of the world's largest music industries today, with many British musicians having influenced modern music.
Click on the guitar and go to this webpage, where the music is divided into decades.

Why don't you have a look at what other students wrote about  it on: BRITISH CULTURE. Here, you will have different kinds of styles with lots of information and videoclips. Click on the flag.

 
 BRITISH INVASION                                                            POP MUSIC
 

 GLAM ROCK                                                             INDIE MUSIC 

 HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL                                  NEW WAVE
                        
                              

 
PROGRESSIVE ROCK                                      NEW ROMANTICS