The 1960s...
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1960s & The Introduction of Pirate Radio
The BBC had a monopoly on radio broadcasting in Britain, and pop music fans were poorly served by it. There was a limit to the amount of records they...
1960s Record Producer-Joe Meek
He was one of Britain's greatest record producers, a man immersed in the possibilities of sound at a time when studio facilities were still primitive. In fact, he built...
Bands in Hamburg
The city of Hamburg and its clubs feature heavily in the legend of the Beatles. But they were far from the only band to play there. In fact, during the early part of the...
British Blues
It was only really after World War II that people in England began to hear the blues, on records brought back by sailors and music broadcast on the Voice of America...
Early Psychedelia
Everyone associates psychedelia with 1967 and the hippie era. That's certainly when it found its full flowering, but even before that, it was taking shape. You could...
Female Pop Stars
The 1950s was definitely the period of the male pop star, the rocker who appealed to girls. But the 1960s brought a change, with the rise of the females. It might...
Freakbeat, The Garage Rock Era
A lot of people don't know the term freakbeat, and it's certainly unusual. It's one used by record collectors, especially in the US, to describe the brief period of more...
How Radio One Began
There were high hopes among the young for Radio 1 went it went on the air at 7 a.m. in September 1967, with disc jockey Tony Blackburn spinning the Move's Flowers In The...
Pop Music of the 60s
There's a definite arc that can be traced in music from early rock'n'roll to the seismic shift the Beatles caused when they broke on the British music scene. The harder...
Record Labels
Through the first part of the 1960s, records had been released mostly by the major labels, like EMI, Phillips and Decca, the three giants of the business, long-...
The Beatles
The Beatles revolutionised pop music; it’s both as simple and as big as that. They wrote some of the world’s most memorable songs, used the recording studio in a way no...
The Impact of Rock on TV in the 1960s
During the 1950s television had been very kind to rock'n'roll. They were both young forms, finding their way, both experimenting. But by the time the...
The Rolling Stones
Formed in 1962 and still going strong, they're probably the richest band on the planet, with individual fortunes running into the many millions. When they began they...
The Summer of Love
Summer 1967 was a magical time in music. The news was full of hippies in San Francisco, and at home suddenly everything seemed more colourful. Men let their hair grow...
Tin Pan Alley
It’s an appealing name, one that came from America, a title given to the area in New York where so many music publishers kept their offices (it came from the raucous din...
Tommy Steele
Fame has often been as much about opportunity as ambition - being in the right place at the right time. In the early days of rock'n'roll, on both sides of the Atlantic,...
What Was Merseybeat?
Liverpool and the area around it, has always been a little different, with its own humour, its own distinctive accent and attitude. In the 1950s it seemed to take to...
