Their first single, “ Love Me Do“, is a hit in late 1962, which has all us kids, singing and dancing to it, it’s so contagious.
The Beatles are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Lesley Gore, at the age of 17 hits Number one with “ It’s My Party” and in 1964 I play it at my 16 th birthday party and another one of her hits is Number 2 “ You Don’t Own Me” which I loved to sing when it comes on the radio for I do not want to be owned and to own myself is the goal. I first hear about him in High school and when in nursing school most kids with guitars, playing in the parks on the Eastside are imitating him. His albums Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited usher in album focused rock and the “folk rock” genre. Dylan’s lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences defying existing pop music conventions and appealing hugely to the burgeoning counterculture. He goes electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan’s six-minute single “ Like a Rolling Stone” has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music and is a top-five hit on both sides of the Atlantic during the summer of 1965. A number of Dylan’s early songs, such as “ Blowin’ in the Wind” and “ The Times They Are a-Changin’“, became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His work from the 1960s is when he is an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music.īob Dylan an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, is an influential figure in popular music and culture. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Sound began in this period with many popular bands coming out of LA and the Haight-Ashbury district, well known for its hippie culture. The taste of the American listeners expanded from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s to the Motown sound, folk rock and the British Invasion. Also, bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors.Popular music enters an era of “all hits”, as numerous artists release 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. The band strenuously denied these allegations at the time, but in later years both Clark and Crosby admitted that the song was at least partly inspired by their own drug use. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. Accordingly, critics often cite "Eight Miles High" as being the first bona fide psychedelic rock song, as well as a classic of the counterculture era. Musically influenced by Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock, raga rock, and psychedelic pop. It was first released as a single on March 14, 1966. "Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a.
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