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A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Roy Orbison was one of rock's famous artists who wrote ballads of lost love. In the early part of the decade, Elvis Presley continued to score hits. For most of the 60s, Presley mostly released films. Presley decided to get away from films by 1969; his last #1 song on the charts was Suspicious Minds which was released in 1969.
According to Christgau, the decade also saw greater fragmentation along stylistic lines because of the rise of semipopular music: "It goes back to whenever arty types began to find 'the best' rock worthy of attention in the '60s, but in the '60s tolerance was the rule; it was easier to name rough substyles—say British invasion, folk-rock ...
This famous cop movie came at a time when America was shifting away from the free love and hippie movement to a more conservative focus on law and order. ... The Best Movie Musicals of the Past 70 ...
It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine – articles, interviews, and reviews of 60s psychedelic and garage acts; Start – Website devoted to covering as many as 1400 Dutch Nederbeat bands of the 60s (in both Dutch and English) Ugly Things – magazine that provides information on garage rock and vintage from the 1960s and other eras
A famous "mockumentary" about a heavy metal band trying to make a comeback while being followed around by a filmmaker. [7] 1986 Sid and Nancy: Alex Cox: Gary Oldman Chloe Webb (Also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills [8] [9]) A 1986 British film which portrays the life of Sid Vicious, bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
In the 1980s and 1990s, blues rock was more roots-oriented than in the 1960s and 1970s, even when artists such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan flirted with rock stardom. [1] Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name, and groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an").
Historical drama films continued to include epic films, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century settings, such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).