How did the sixties change music and life?
Many of the important bands in the sixties changed the ways music was written and played. Some of these important rock bands were The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. They revolutionized how rock was Psychedelic Rock, Surf Rock, Garage Rock, Blues Rock, Roots Rock, and Progressive Rock. Along with rock came R&B and Soul music. Some of the artists who played this music were the Temptations, the Jackson Five, Otis Redding’s, and Sam Cooke. Also about this time Country music started gaining popularity and growing. Some famous artists and bands were Jimmy Reeves, Eddie Arnold, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash. Some Branches of Country music are Rockabilly, Country Soul, and Country Rock. There was also the “British Invasion” in which many British bands came to the United States looking for opportunities in the music industry. At the end of nineteen sixty two the British rock scene had started with beat groups like the Beatles using a wide variety of American influences including Soul music Rhythm and Blues. In Mid nineteen sixty two the Rolling Stones started as one of a number of increasingly showing blues influence. British Rock broke through to mainstream popularity in the United States in the beginning of nineteen sixty four. “I want to hold your hand” was the bands first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and it was the song that started the breakthrough of the British Invasion. Their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in February nineteen sixty four is considered a milestone for American pop culture. An apparent seventy three million people viewed the episode at the airing time which was a record at the time.
Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”. Woodstock was held at Max Yasgur’s six hundred acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. It was supposed to be held from August 15th to 17th however it ran over to the 18th. During the partly rainy weekend thirty two acts performed outdoors to four hundred thousand people that came from all across the nation. It ia regarded as one of the pivotal points of pop music history and Rolling Stones has it in their Fifty Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. Some of the artists that performed at the nineteen sixty nine Woodstock Festival of Music and Art are Jimmy Hendrix, The Who, Richie Havens, Mountain, Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, and the Band.
At the end of it all the sixties shaped every aspect of modern music and set the world on a new path, one that people could enjoy with their friends or by themselves or with family anywhere, anytime, and anyplace.