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Zorro

(15,740 posts) Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:34 PM Aug 2016

1966 could be rock 'n' roll's most revolutionary year, thanks to the Beatles, Dylan and Beach Boys

What’s the most innovative year ever for rock ’n’ roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular music broadly defined as rock.

There’s 1954, the year Bill Haley & His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” signaled the flashpoint of rock ’n’ roll, and Elvis Presley first stepped up to a microphone at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn.

Or 1964, the year Beatlemania exploded around the world and the launch of the British Invasion.

Don’t discredit 1967, with the Summer of Love, the blossoming of flower power and psychedelic music.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-1966-rock-explosive-year-20160803-snap-htmlstory.html

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1966 could be rock 'n' roll's most revolutionary year, thanks to the Beatles, Dylan and Beach Boys (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2016 OP

1969 was the big year with the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, and Led Zeppelin. dubyadiprecession Aug 2016 #1

I see 1969 as the peak of that era, but not the most revolutionary year of rock n roll independentpiney Aug 2016 #2

dubyadiprecession

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1. 1969 was the big year with the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, and Led Zeppelin.

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Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:53 PM

Aug 2016

Plus the big outdoor events like Woodstock and the Toronto rock & roll revival.

independentpiney

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2. I see 1969 as the peak of that era, but not the most revolutionary year of rock n roll

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Fri Aug 12, 2016, 05:49 PM

Aug 2016

I don't think any one year can be claimed the 'most revolutionary' of the genre.1966 -'69 saw an amazing blossoming of creativity in each year, no single one was the greatest. And while I'm a member of that generation, the '60s does not have a monopoly on musical revolution or innovation and I cringe at some of my peers crotchety attitudes . They've turned into my older, Lawrence Welk watching relatives in the '60s, pining for the Andrews Sisters and Frank Sinatra.

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