1960s in music
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Popular music
Popular music in the 1960s entered an era of "all hits", as numerous artists released recordings, beginning in the 1950s, as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side), and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also, bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The developments of the Motown Sound, "folk rock" and the British Invasion of bands from the U.K. (The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, The Rolling Stones and so on), are major examples of American listeners expanding from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s and evolving to include psychedelic music.
The rise of counterculture
The rise of the counterculture, particularly among the youth, created a huge market for rock, soul, pop and blues music produced by drug-culture, influenced bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Incredible String Band, also for radical music in the folk tradition pioneered by Bob Dylan, The Mamas and the Papas, and Joan Baez in the United States, and in England, Donovan was helping to create folk rock.
Art music
- Kontakte by Stockhausen
Electronic art music
Art rock
Music critic George Graham argues that "... the so-called Art Rock scene arose" in the 1960s, "when many artists were attempting to broaden the boundaries of rock." He claims that art rock "was inspired by the classically-influenced arrangements and the elaborate production of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers period" and states that the "style had its heyday in the 1970s with huge commercial success by Yes, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and later Genesis."
Overview
- 1969 in music - Death of Brian Jones; Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York; The Beatles - Let It Be, Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline, The Who's Tommy Released
- 1968 in music - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album), Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison, The Band - Music from Big Pink
- 1967 in music - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced & Axis: Bold as Love, The Doors - The Doors (with the hit single, Light My Fire), Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding; Monterey Pop Festival,
- 1966 in music - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, The Beatles - Revolver, Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- 1965 in music - The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, - Like A Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Herman's Hermits debut;
- 1964 in music - Ensembles For Synthesizer, Bill Lear invents 8-track tape cartridge; Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin', British Invasion begins, Beatlemania invades America
- 1963 in music - First cassette tapes made by Philips, Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- 1962 in music - Love Me Do released as a single by the Beatles; Bob Dylan is the debut album from the highly influential American artist of the same name. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old.
See also
- Significant events in music in the 1960s
- Music history of the United States (1960s and 70s)
- Music of the United Kingdom (1950s and 60s)
