Every country brings something unique to the table and I don't see where one is any brighter or better than another. I think the US made many revolutionary advances thanks to Bell Labs, the old R&D arm of AT&T. A fabulous, and very benevolent company. Many don't remember, but I was born and raised on it so it's familiar to me. What a pity the government went and broke the company up.
Among the many advances... radio astronomy the transistor the laser information theory the UNIX operating system the C programming language and the C++ programming language.
Seven Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
Ha! Half of them we aren't even posting because we used them on the Motown thread. Just giving you the highlights of all the new sounds this round! LOL
RE: USA Versus the UK
I'll never catch up now, Patmac. If I tried I would probably just end up repeating others. Will you be starting a new genre?