What are 5 bands that were popular in the mid 1960s?
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What are 5 bands that were popular in the mid 1960s?
The Biggest and Best Bands from the 1960s
- Pink Floyd. It’s safe to say that Pink Floyd isn’t just one of the biggest and best bands from the 1960s, but one of the most influential bands of all time.
- The Beatles.
- Led Zeppelin.
- The Rolling Stones.
- The Beach Boys.
- Bee Gees.
What band sold the most albums in the 60s?
The Beatles
The biggest-selling album of the 1960s was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles—of the top thirteen biggest-selling albums of the decade, ten were by The Beatles, the other three being motion picture soundtracks.
What albums from the 60s are worth money?
(10cc) Graham Gouldman – The Graham Gouldman Thing U.S. stereo promotional LP.
What happened to the late 60s/early 70s?
The past few years have seen a rapid rise in interest in underground British rock music of the late 60s/early 70s. With the advent of blogs, file sharing and streaming services, many of the most obscure archive recordings from that era have suddenly become instantly available for everyone to hear – albeit often by illicit means.
What was the music like in the 1960s?
Still, there’s no getting around the fact that the music of the ’60s made a huge impact at the time and never really went away. In the 1950s, the album charts were dominated by easy listening singers like Bing Crosby and endless musicals, records that only have niche audiences now.
What are some of the best albums released in the 60s?
S.F. Sorrow is considered to be one of the first ‘concept albums’, despite being released almost two years after Nirvana’s Story Of Simon Simopath, The Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Passed, Sgt. Pepper, etc. This album really is a glorious celebration of everything that was great about rock music at the tail end of the 60s. An absolute classic.
What are the Greatest Lost 45s from the 60s?
We have picked 67 of what we think are the great lost 45s from the 60s, and we suspect that many of you will not have heard the vast majority of them. There are examples, such as “Different Drum,” by The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt, that were modest hits in America but did nothing in the UK and the rest of the world.