The 1960's were a time of upheaval in society, fashion, attitudes and especially music. Before 1963, the music of the sixties still reflected the sound, style and beliefs of the previous decade and many of the hit records were by artists who had found mainstream success in the 1950s, like Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Dion, and The Everly Brothers. In 1963 and the years to follow, a number of social influences changed what popular music was and gave birth to the diversity that we experience with music today. The assassination of President Kennedy, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the forward-progress of the Civil Rights Movement all greatly impacted the mood of American culture and the music began to reflect that change. The "British Invasion" also began around 1963 with the arrival of The Beatles on the music scene and the type of rabid fandom that followed them would change the way people would view and interact with music and musicians forever. In this section we will cover the history of the "British Invasion", Motown and R&B, Folk and Protest music, and the large amount of variation that emerged in Rock music throughout the sixties.

The Beatles

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison y Ringo Starr. 

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, heavier-driven sound that came to define hard rock.

Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts

The Who

The Who is a British rock band considered an icon of 20th century music, formed in 1962 under the name of The Detours, which later changed to The Who after the incorporation of drummer Keith Moon.

Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon 

Here Comes The Sun

Year:  1969

Album: Abbey Road

The result was a beautiful song that talks about the rising of the Sun and the end of the long and cold winter, but that connotes a message of love and hope that says 'no matter how long the winter is, the Sun will always rise again' .

Satisfaction

Year: 1965

Album: Out of our heads

The theme of the song is sexual frustration but Mick (who recorded the voice in one take) also speaks of a distaste for society and the establishment. In this way it became an anthem for a whole generation in the 60s that was dissatisfied with what they lived.

My Wife

Year: 1969

Album: Baba O'riley 

My Wife is my Hand Of Doom; it would be logical to choose paranoia or get into the skin of the iron man to commemorate Black Sabbath's Paranoid, yes, but little by little, one notices that on the album there is more than one somewhat covered theme that for some reason he considers basic and does ring over and over again. 

Blues 

Blues rock is a musical genre that combines elements of blues and rock, emphasizing the use of the electric guitar. 

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Boogie

Boogie rock is a musical genre that emerged in the 1960s in the United States and England and combines elements of blues rock and boogie-woogie, being considered the heaviest style of blues at the time.

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Bossa Nova

Bossa nova is a musical genre of Brazilian popular music derived from samba and heavily influenced by jazz. In the beginning, the word was used to designate a new way of singing and playing samba and came to be an "aesthetic reformulation" within the modern urban samba of Rio. 

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Spotify Playlist

Here we leave you a playlist of the best music hits of the 60s.