Their leftish politics and rebellious attitude meant it was impossible for them to continue after the 1973 military coup, and their second album did not see the light of day until 1981, because the military authorities threatened to close the record company down if it was released at the time. Inspired by Deep Purple and Uriah Heep, Psiglo was formed in 1971 and reached their height with their debut album IdeaciГіn, released in 1973. ДЄpart from TГіtem, the Uruguayan hard rock band Psiglo was able to cross over from the underground and reach a large audience. TГіtem, founded by Ruben Rada and Eduardo Useta was an attempt to establish this, and their 1971 self-titled debut showed songwriting talent and vocal virtuosity and helped make the band become one of the most successful Uruguayan bands, leaving an enormous legacy for the future of Uruguayan music. The emerging Uruguayan rock scene showed musicians searching for a new Latin American cultural identity at the beginning of the 1970s. 1970 also saw Eduardo Mateo dissolve El Kinto and two of its members, guitarist Walter CambГіn and drummer Luis Sosa, formed LimoNada, a short-lived project that was rediscovered in the 1990s thanks to its extremely unconventional sound, boasting songs 'clustered by strange voices, incidental music noises and effects that sometimes unite the songs and other times cut the tunes in half'. The songs are introduced by enigmatic words and the sound of casual conversation can be heard in the background. He dabbled in candombe like Eduardo Mateo and El Kinto, adopting a rock attitude on the 1970 release Underground and mixing styles such as milonga. GastГіn Ciarlo (aka Dino) was a rock music pioneer in Uruguay, playing electric blues before the Beatles revolution, and blending pop music and local rhythms and themes. With the Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina dying down, a new wave of rock musicians arose, including members of El Kinto, TГіtem, Psiglo, GГ©nesis, Opus Alfa, Eduardo Mateo, Jesus Figueroa and DГas de Blues, promoted by radio and television shows like Constelacion and Discodromo Show. Deeply influenced by The Rolling Stones, there 'was no trace of any local or regional personality' in their work, although its members where considered talented performers and arrangers. Los Mockers are not an example of this, however.

Examples include Los Iracundos, Kano y Los Bulldogs, and Los Malditos. Like Los Shakers, the other bands that emerged in Uruguay at this time, did not want to just sound like their British counterparts, but to create a more original sound. Their second album, Shakers for You (1966) followed the same trend as the Beatles, moving towards psychedelia, but also with original touches, including nods to Bossa Nova, especially with the song Never, Never, a big hit in Brazil, and 'probably an inspiration for the Tropicalia movement that arose in Brazilian music at the time.'.

Although in essence they started as a carbon copy of the Fab Four, Los Shakers became very popular across Latin America and were a big influence on many musicians that followed them. Los Shakers were a group formed in the mid-1960s, as a response to The Beatles, after a group of youngsters had seen A Hard Day's Night. This cultural phenomenon was called the Uruguayan Invasion, and it continued for several years, as record labels began signing Uruguayan bands to promote them in Argentina. In the mid-1960s, as the British Invasion was peaking in the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, a group of Uruguayan bands broke into the mainstream in Argentina.

The Beatles were wildly popular across the world, and many Uruguayan youths began to form their own rock bands.

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