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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.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
Between 1963 and 1966, the Beatles' songs were released on different albums in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, 30 songs were released as non-album singles, while appearing on numerous albums in the US. Since the remastering of the band's catalogue on CDs in the 1980s, the Beatles have a primary "core catalogue" of 14 albums ...
The Kinks in 1967. Already heralded by Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel Absolute Beginners which captured London's emerging youth culture, [10] Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Small Faces, the Animals, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and other artists from what was known in the US as the ...
During the first three decades of Columbia House, it had a most unique marketing strategy: Give the customer several albums for free (although most of its early marketing campaigns required the customer to tape a penny to the enclosed postcard/order form) with the promise that they would purchase a set number of records or tapes at full club ...
1989: The Specialty Sessions (Ace [UK], 6-CD; a truncated 3-CD version released in US on Specialty) 1996: The Second Coming (Charly [UK]; also released as Dancin' All Around the World – The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings ; all previously released, missing alternate take of "I Don't Know What You've Got", and other unreleased material)
(note that Kvällstoppen was a combined singles and album chart, with singles dominating a large portion of the 1960s. The first album to reach number one was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969, and the first Swedish-language album was Cornelis sjunger Taube by Cornelis Vreeswijk that same year)
After 1964, clashes between the two groups largely subsided, as mod expanded and came to be accepted by the larger youth generation throughout the UK as a symbol of all that was new. [20] [21] During this time London became a mecca for rock music, with popular bands such as the Who and Small Faces appealing to a largely mod audience, [22] as ...