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1960s in music
- ReggaeReggae was named by accident. One morning in Jamaica, Toots Hibbert and two friends started playing around, and he called out, "OK man, let's do the reggay."…
- HippieHippie culture left its mark on nearly every corner of Western society, from the organic food stores on American main streets to the peace symbol printed on…
- Hard rockHard rock declared its arrival with a 17-minute drum solo. Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, released in 1968, stretched a single track into an…
- FunkJames Brown stood in front of his band and gave a single command: "On the one!" That instruction rewired American music.
- Cultural impact of the BeatlesThe Beatles hold a record that no other act in history has matched: between February 1964 and July 1970, they had the top-selling single in the United States…
- BeatlemaniaBeatlemania gripped Britain in the autumn of 1963, when 15 million people watched four young men from Liverpool perform on the UK's top variety show and a…
- Beat musicThe term beat music emerged from the fading waves of late 1950s rock and roll. Ernest Borneman, a German anthropologist living in England between 1933 and…
- Country musicCountry music got its name in an unlikely way. For decades, the genre was called hillbilly music, and only in the 1940s did the term "country music" catch on.
- British InvasionIn the late 1950s, American rock and blues musicians became popular with British youth. This rebellious tone and image sparked a cultural shift across the…
- The Beatles AnthologyThe Beatles Anthology began with a single day's sales figure that had never been achieved before: 450,000 copies of one album sold in a single day.
- J-popJ-pop, the abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music", entered the mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, but the story behind it stretches back more than a…
- Pop musicThe term "pop song" was first used in 1926, describing a piece of music "having popular appeal". Pop music as we know it today did not arrive until the…