This is FRESH AIR. The Beatles overwhelmed America when they led the British invasion in 1964. But within a few months, many other bands were vying for attention. Most of them managed a hit or two.

Peter Noone had things figured out. Noone formed Herman’s Hermit’s in 1964, when he was 16. He’d already found some measure of fame in the UK, acting on the long-running soap opera Coronation Street, ...

VAN WERT — Who better to present an Olde English Christmas program than, well … an old Englishman? But age is little more than a state of mind, and Peter Noone at age 78 is still a spry performer who ...

What’s wrong with a night of music that lets you revisit the innocence of youth, even if it’s sheer nostalgia? Nothing, as evidenced by a concert Thursday by Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone as ...

Joe Nardone presents ‘An Evening of Solid Gold’ featuring Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Happenings and Bobby Brooks Wilson at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the F.M.

The “British Invasion” of the mid-1960s was a pop-culture tidal wave. One of its biggest hit machines was Herman’s Hermits, a band from Manchester, England, that was fronted by the boyish and ...

Peter Noone has no problem looking back at his career, which aspans six decades. It was 55 years ago that the Manchester, England-born singer’s life forever changed when his Herman’s Hermits released ...

He brought the British Invasion to America alongside The Beatles and Rolling Stones. On Thursday, Peter Noone’s Herman’s Hermits hits The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. “I’ve been there many times ...