Give three examples to illustrate that while blues was invented by African Americans, within the last thirty-five years blues has expanded beyond its original cultural group, entered mainstream pop music, and become a universal phenomenon. (Examples may vary.)

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• "Blues was crucial in the British rock of the 1960s" (e.g., the Rolling Stones) Other examples might include popular British blues bands with such artists as internationally famous Eric Clapton; America blues revivals of the 1960s brought blues music to international and mostly white audiences in North America and Europe; and in the 1960s black rhythm and blues crossed over to the pop charts (for example, Jimmy Reed's "Big Boss Man").