The 1960s

Below are our 17 articles in the the 1960s' category:

1960s & The Introduction of Pirate Radio
Radio Luxembourg and the pirate stations fed the musical appetites of teenagers in the mid 60s. The BBC had done an appalling job with pop on the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Impact 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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