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This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s.. The Miracles pictured in 1962. Known as Motown's "soul supergroup", The Miracles were one of the first commercially successful acts of the 1960s and propelled both Motown and its Tamla label to international fame.
Popular music of the United States in the 1960s became innately tied up into causes, opposing certain ideas, influenced by the sexual revolution, feminism, Black Power and environmentalism.
Day Album Artist Notes 3 Just Like Us! Paul Revere & the Raiders – 7 The Second Album: The Spencer Davis Group – 14 A-tom-ic Jones: Tom Jones – 17
London has contributed much to the history and development of popular music, from the British Rock revolution of the 1960s to the punk rock explosion of the 1970s to the underground electronic and dance sounds of recent years.
To further market this idea, the UK record sleeve stated "B side included on A side, full length disco mix of Pop Musik on Seaside". 'Seaside' (in other words "C side") was a simple play on words as the letter C, apart from being the logical next "side" after the A and B sides, is pronounced the same way as the English word "sea".
Krautrock (also called kosmische Musik, German for "cosmic music" [9] [10] [11]) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [10] It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock , avant-garde composition, and electronic music , among other eclectic sources. [ 12 ]
In the early 1960s, brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel, grandchildren of Will Meisel, who was the founder of German music publisher Edition Meisel & Co. GmbH, assumed responsibility of the family's publishing company upon their grandfather's retirement, and founded Hansa Musik Produktion company and the Hansa record label in 1962. [1]
Visual Musik was a record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. It specialized in new age music . It was founded in 1987 by Carol Davis, ex-wife of Chip Davis of Mannheim Steamroller fame. [ 1 ]