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aps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels
Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a world-wide "Motorcycle club#One Percenters" Motorcycle_club#Outlaw_Motorcycle_Gangs whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles....
, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event. In retrospect, some commentators have concluded that the violence signaled the end of the "hippie
Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster , and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district....
" movement, which espoused an ethos of free love
Free love

The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women....
 and peace. Even more famous than the Altamont concert is Woodstock
Woodstock Festival

Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
, which consisted of dozens of the most famous performers in the world at the time, playing together in an atmosphere of peace with nature and love, with many thousands of concert goers; it is still one of the largest concerts in the history of the world. The Isle of Wight festival saw the return of Bob Dylan to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966. Soul Shakedown was the debut album by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
, who would go on to become one of the most popular groups around the world.






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Perhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels
Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a world-wide "Motorcycle club#One Percenters" Motorcycle_club#Outlaw_Motorcycle_Gangs whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles....
, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event. In retrospect, some commentators have concluded that the violence signaled the end of the "hippie
Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster , and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district....
" movement, which espoused an ethos of free love
Free love

The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women....
 and peace. Even more famous than the Altamont concert is Woodstock
Woodstock Festival

Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
, which consisted of dozens of the most famous performers in the world at the time, playing together in an atmosphere of peace with nature and love, with many thousands of concert goers; it is still one of the largest concerts in the history of the world. The Isle of Wight festival saw the return of Bob Dylan to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966. Soul Shakedown was the debut album by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
, who would go on to become one of the most popular groups around the world. The album achieved very little popularity outside of the group's native country, Jamaica
Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
, but began establishing themselves as superstars there. Musically, Soul Shakedown is more ska
Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and Calypso music with United States jazz and rhythm and blues....
 than reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, the style of music the Wailers would eventually make world-famous; the pioneering style of the music helped move ska and rocksteady
Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that was most popular in Jamaica, starting around 1966, and its reggae successor was established around 1968.The term rocksteady comes from a dance style that was mentioned in the Alton Ellis song "Rock Steady"....
 towards reggae.

David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
's debut single, "Space Oddity
Space Oddity

"Space Oddity" is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a single in 1969. It is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who becomes depressed during an outer-space mission....
", became a huge hit in this year, being released at the time that American astronauts first landed on the moon. The song, the story of an astronaut named Major Tom who goes into space and is entranced by the beauty of seeing Earth from such a great distance and consequently lets himself float off into space, never again to return, was chosen by the BBC as the theme song for the television coverage of the moon landing. The remainder of the album, Man of Words/Man of Music, was too avant-garde for mainstream acceptance, though it established a devoted fanbase for Bowie, who would go on to become one of the most popular musicians in the world.

King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
's In the Court of the Crimson King
In the Court of the Crimson King

In the Court of the Crimson King is the 1969 debut album by the United Kingdom progressive rock group King Crimson. The album reached #3 on the British charts....
 is a pioneering album in the development of progressive rock
Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
. The album drew upon influences like Procol Harum
Procol Harum

Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
, The Moody Blues
The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
 and The Nice
The Nice

The Nice were an England progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of Rock and roll, jazz and european classical music....
 to form an original sound melding rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 with classical influences in long, avant-garde pieces of music. Similar albums by The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and The Nice, as well as Genesis
Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
, Yes
Yes (band)

Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
 and Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
 were also released this year, expanding the range of prog rock and developing it into a full-fledged genre.

The Stooges
The Stooges

The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
' eponymous debut, The Stooges
The Stooges (album)

The Stooges is the self-titled debut of the rock band The Stooges. It was released in August 1969 and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard magazine album charts....
, was also released this year to little critical or popular acceptance. The album, however, went on to become one of the most important recordings in the early development of punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
.

Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
's At San Quentin
At San Quentin

At San Quentin is a recording of a live concert given by Johnny Cash to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison. As well as being released on record the concert was filmed by Granada Television....
 included his only Top Ten pop hit, "A Boy Named Sue
A Boy Named Sue

"A Boy Named Sue" is a Country music song, written by Shel Silverstein and popularly sung by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash was at the height of his popularity when he recorded this song live at San Quentin State Prison in California....
". The album was a sequel to last year's At Folsom Prison
At Folsom Prison

At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash drew an interest in performing at a prison....
. Also in country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound
Bakersfield sound

The Bakersfield sound was a musical genre of country music developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California, California....
 into outlaw country
Outlaw country

Outlaw country was a significant trend in country music during the late 1960s and the 1970s , commonly referred to as The Outlaw Movement or simply Outlaw music....
 within a few years.

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
 cement their success from the previous year. Having had a single US #11 hit in 1968 with Suzie Q
Suzie Q

Suzie Q is the name of a dance step in the Big Apple , Lindy Hop, and other dances. In line dances this step is also known as Heel Twist or Grind Walk....
, they release not only their second, but also their third and fourth proper studio album in 1969 as well as drawing a total of four top 3 hits from these three albums. Starting with Bayou Country
Bayou Country

Bayou Country is the second album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 ....
 including the US #2 hit "Proud Mary" and continuing with Green River
Green River (album)

Green River is the third album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 . In 2003, the album was ranked number 95 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
 and finally Willy and the Poor Boys
Willy and the Poor Boys

Willy and the Poor Boys is the fourth album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 . The only mention of the album's title is in the chorus of "Down on the Corner"....
, which, during the year, transformed them from an up-and-coming underground act to bona fide rockstars. During 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival had #2 hits in the US with "Proud Mary", "Green River
Green River (song)

Green River is a song that was written by John Fogerty and recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival. It is the title track of their #1 album with the same name....
" and "Bad Moon Rising
Bad Moon Rising (song)

"Bad Moon Rising" is a 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty. It was the lead single from their album Green River and the group?s breakthrough hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in September 1969....
", and also have a #3 hit with "Down on the Corner
Down on the Corner

"Down on the Corner" is a song by the United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It appeared on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys ....
"/"Fortunate Son
Fortunate Son (song)

"Fortunate Son" is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their album Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969. It was released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner," in September 1969....
".

Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil , is a Grammy-winner Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment....
 and Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and activism. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil....
 released enormously popular albums in Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso (1969 album)

Caetano Veloso is an album released in Brazil in 1969, being the third album by Caetano Veloso, his second solo. It is considered by many one of Veloso's best, and one that represents Tropic?lia....
, respectively. The pair's fusion of bossa nova
Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Jo?o Gilberto. Bossa nova acquired a large following, initially by young musicians and college students....
, samba and other native Brazilian folk influences, melded with politically and socially aware lyrics, kickstarted what came to be known as Tropicalia. Both musicians moved to London after a period of imprisonment for anti-government activities in Brazil.

Family
Family (band)

Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
 release their second album, Family Entertainment, in their native Britain. It is their first top ten album in the United Kingdom, hitting number six. "The Weaver's Answer
The Weaver's Answer

"The Weaver's Answer" is a song by the British progressive rock band Family that is the first track on their 1969 album Family Entertainment....
"", which opens the record, becomes their most popular song in their concert performances. By the end of the year, however, they lose and replace two members, and their first attempt to break through commercially in the United States backfires miserably. Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 returns to live performances at the International Hotel
Las Vegas Hilton

The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada. It is a joint venture between Colony Capital, LLC, which owns 60 percent, and New York City-based REIT Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, which owns the remaining 40 percent....
 in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas metropolitan area includes the Las Vegas Valley, a 600-square-mile basin, and surrounding areas, that is part of Clark County, Nevada in southern Nevada....
; 57 concerts. He breaks all attendance records in Vegas. He also enjoys a great success with his songs "In The Ghetto
In the Ghetto

"In the Ghetto" is a song written by Mac Davis and was originally titled "The Vicious Circle". The song was made popular by rock and roll singer Elvis Presley....
" and "Suspicious Minds
Suspicious Minds

"Suspicious Minds" is a US song, written in 1956, about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship. Most notably performed by Elvis Presley beginning in 1969, "Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jump-started Presley's career after his successful Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special....
".

  • January 4 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is accused of arrogance by British television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 show Happening for Lulu.
  • January 12 - Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
    's eponymous debut album released.
  • January 18 - Pete Best
    Pete Best

    Pete Best is a United Kingdom musician, best known as the original drummer for The Beatles.After moving from India to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best started The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best's house in Liverpool, which became very popular—the membership list grew to over a thousand—and where The Bea...
     wins his defamation lawsuit against the Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    . Best had originally sought $8 million, but ended up being awarded much less.
  • January 30 - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
     perform for the last time in public, on the roof of the Apple
    Apple Corps

    Apple Corps Ltd. is a multi-armed multimedia corporation founded in January 1968 by United Kingdom Rock music band The Beatles to replace their earlier company and to form a conglomerate....
     building at 3 Savile Row
    Savile Row

    Savile Row is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's bespoke tailoring. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers....
    , London. The performance, which was filmed for the Let It Be
    Let It Be (film)

    Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. Released 12 days after the album, it was the last original Beatles release....
     movie, is stopped early by police after neighbors complain about the noise.
  • February - Eric Burdon & The Animals disband.
  • February 3 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
    , George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
     and Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
     hire Allen Klein
    Allen Klein

    Allen Klein is a controversial American businessman and record label executive. His career highlights included celebrated clients such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones....
     as the Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    ' new business manager, against the wishes of Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
    .
  • February 4 - Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
     hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman, Linda Eastman
    Linda McCartney

    Linda Louise McCartney was an United Statesn photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her mother and father were Lee Eastman and Louise Linder, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune....
    's father's law firm, as general legal counsel for Apple.
  • February 7 - George Harrison is admitted to London's University College Hospital with an infected back molar that has affected his tonsils.
  • February 8 - George Harrison's tonsils are removed at London's University College Hospital.
  • February 15 - Vickie Jones is arrested for impersonating Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
     in a concert performance. Jones' impersonation was so convincing that nobody in the audience asked for a refund.
  • February 17 - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     and Bob Dylan record together in Nashville, Tennessee
    Nashville, Tennessee

    Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
    . Only one song, "Girl from the North Country", would be released from these sessions.
  • February 18 - Lulu
    Lulu (singer)

    Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
     and Bee Gee Maurice Gibb
    Maurice Gibb

    Maurice Ernest Gibb Order of the British Empire was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
     are married in England
  • March 1 - During a performance at Miami
    Miami, Florida

    Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
    's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison
    Jim Morrison

    James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
     of the Doors
    The Doors

    The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
     is arrested for allegedly exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
  • March 12
    • The 11th Grammy Awards
      Grammy Awards of 1969

      The 11th Grammy Awards were held in 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968....
       are presented.
    • Paul McCartney
      Paul McCartney

      Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
       marries Linda Eastman
      Linda McCartney

      Linda Louise McCartney was an United Statesn photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her mother and father were Lee Eastman and Louise Linder, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune....
      .
    • George Harrison
      George Harrison

      George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
       and his wife Pattie
      Pattie Boyd

      Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd is an English model and photographer, and the first wife of George Harrison of The Beatles, after whom she married Eric Clapton....
       are arrested in England on charges of hashish
      Hashish

      Hashish is a preparation of cannabis composed of the compressed trichomes collected from the cannabis plant. It contains the same active ingredients but in higher concentrations than other parts of the plant such as the buds or the leaves....
       possession.
  • March 20 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     marries Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     in Gibraltar
    Gibraltar

    Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory shares a border with Spain to the north....
    .
  • March 25-31 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     host a "Bed-In
    Bed-In

    During the Vietnam War, in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace....
    " for peace in their room at the Amsterdam Hilton, turning their honeymoon into an antiwar event. Lennon also learns from a morning newspaper that publisher Dick James
    Dick James

    Dick James was a music publisher and the founder of the DJM Records record label and recording studios, as well as The Beatles' publisher Northern Songs....
     has sold his shares of Northern Songs
    Northern Songs

    Northern Songs Ltd. is a company founded in 1963 by Music publisher Dick James, Brian Epstein, and The Beatles to publish songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney ....
     to Lew Grade
    Lew Grade

    Lew Grade, Baron Grade , born Lev Winogradsky, was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom....
    's Associated Television (ATV).
  • April 1 - The Beach Boys
    The Beach Boys

    The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
     file a lawsuit against their record label
    Record label

    In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
    , Capitol Records
    Capitol Records

    Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group....
    , for $2,041,446.64 in unpaid royalties and producer's fees for Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson

    Brian Douglas Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning United States musician best known as a member of the American rock and roll band, the Beach Boys....
    . Capitol retaliates by deleting most of its Beach Boys catalog, severely limiting the band's income.
  • April 8 - Opening for Ten Years After
    Ten Years After

    Ten Years After are an England blues rock musical ensemble, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
     at the Fillmore East in New York City, Family
    Family (band)

    Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
     perform their first U.S. concert, and the show is an unmitigated disaster. Vocalist Roger Chapman
    Roger Chapman

    Roger Chapman is an England Rock music singing....
    , on his 27th birthday, throws a microphone stand into the audience, unintentionally in the direction of Fillmore East impresario Bill Graham
    Bill Graham (promoter)

    Bill Graham was an United States impresario and rock music concert promoter from the 1960s until his death....
    .
  • April 20 - The L.A. Free Festival in Venice, California ends early following a riot of audience members, 117 of which were arrested.
  • April 22
    • The first complete performance of The Who
      The Who

      The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
      's rock opera Tommy
      Tommy (rock opera)

      Tommy is the fourth album by the English Rock music band The Who. A double album telling a loose story about a "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock opera....
       during a performance in Dolton
      Dolton

      Dolton may refer to:* Dolton, Devon, UK* Dolton, Illinois, USA* Dolton, South Dakota, USAOther uses:* Dolton Records, a record label...
      , England
    • John Lennon
      John Lennon

      John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
       officially changes his name from John Winston Lennon to John Winston Ono-Lennon.
  • April
    • The Beatles
      The Beatles

      The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
       make a $5.1 million counter offer to the Northern Songs
      Northern Songs

      Northern Songs Ltd. is a company founded in 1963 by Music publisher Dick James, Brian Epstein, and The Beatles to publish songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney ....
       stockholders in an attempt to keep Associated TV from controlling the band's music.
    • Chicago
      Chicago (band)

      Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
       releases its debut album, The Chicago Transit Authority
      Chicago Transit Authority

      Chicago Transit Authority, also known as CTA, is the operator of public transport within the Chicago, Illinois. It is the second largest transit system in the United States and fourth largest in North America....
      .
  • May 3
    • Sly & the Family Stone
      Sly & the Family Stone

      Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
       release their breakthrough album, Stand!
      Stand!

      Stand! is the fourth studio album by soul music/funk music band Sly & the Family Stone, released May 3, 1969 on Epic Records. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! was the band's breakout album....
      , which became one of the top-selling albums of the decade and made the band one of the most popular acts in rock
      Rock and roll

      Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
       and soul music
      Soul music

      Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
      .
    • Jimi Hendrix
      Jimi Hendrix

      James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
       is arrested by Canadian Mounties at Toronto
      Toronto

      Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
      's International Airport for possession of narcotics. Hendrix is released on $10,000 bail.
  • May 6 - In London, representatives of Warner Brothers-Seven Arts discuss the purchase of fifteen percent of The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    ' Northern Songs
    Northern Songs

    Northern Songs Ltd. is a company founded in 1963 by Music publisher Dick James, Brian Epstein, and The Beatles to publish songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney ....
    .
  • May 10 - The Turtles
    The Turtles

    The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
     perform at the White House. Singer Mark Volman
    Mark Volman

    Mark Volman is an United States rock and roll singer, best known as a founding member of the 1960s band The Turtles. At times during his career he has used the pseudonym "The Phlorescent Leech" ....
     falls off the stage five times.
  • June 2 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     host a "Bed-In
    Bed-In

    During the Vietnam War, in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace....
    " at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal
    Montreal

    Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
    , Canada. The couple records the song "Give Peace a Chance" live in their suite with Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary

    Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space....
    , and several others.
  • June 29 - Bass player Noel Redding
    Noel Redding

    David "Noel" Redding was an England rock and roll guitarist best known as the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience....
     announces to the media that he has quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience, having effectively done so during the recording of Electric Ladyland.
  • July 3 - Brian Jones
    Brian Jones

    Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an England guitarist and founding member of the England rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable Mod image, Recreational drug use excesses and his 27 Club....
     is found dead in the swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England almost a month after leaving The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
    .
  • July 5 - The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
     proceed with a free concert in Hyde Park, London
    Hyde Park, London

    Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine ....
    , as a tribute to Brian Jones; it is also the band's first concert with guitarist Mick Taylor
    Mick Taylor

    Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor and another performance from the Old Grey Whistle Test seem to be the only material available from this brief collaboration....
    . Estimates of the audience range from 250,000 to 400,000.
  • August - Eric Burdon & War form
  • August 9 - Would-be folk singer Charles Manson
    Charles Manson

    Charles Milles Manson is an United States criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-Commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
     and his "family" murder film star Sharon Tate
    Sharon Tate

    Sharon Marie Tate was an American actress. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several films. After receiving positive reviews for her comedy performances, she was hailed as one of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California's promising newcomers, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in '...
     and others, in Tate's home.
  • August 15-17 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York
    Bethel, New York

    Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007....
    , near Woodstock, New York. Performers included Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
    , Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin

    Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
    , The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
    , Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
    , Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
    , Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane

    Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
    , Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
    , Country Joe and the Fish
    Country Joe and the Fish

    Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971....
    , Ten Years After
    Ten Years After

    Ten Years After are an England blues rock musical ensemble, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
    , and Sly & the Family Stone
    Sly & the Family Stone

    Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
    .
  • August 28 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     returns to live performances in Las Vegas.
  • September 13 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     perform at a rock and roll revival
    Rock and roll revival

    Rock and Roll Revival was a back-to-basics musical trend of the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a sort-of backlash against the heavier and psychedelic rock sounds then in vogue....
     festival at Varsity Stadium in Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    , Ontario, Canada, backed by Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
    , Klaus Voormann
    Klaus Voormann

    Klaus Voormann is a Germany artist, musician, and record producer known for his long association with the The Beatles, for whom he designed the cover of their album Revolver , as well as for being the bass guitar with the British Invasion group Manfred Mann and later a respected session musician and record producer....
     and Alan White
    Alan White (Yes drummer)

    Alan White is an England rock and roll drummer best known for his 34 years of work with the progressive rock band Yes . In all, White has appeared on over fifty albums with artists from John Lennon and George Harrison to Joe Cocker, Ginger Baker and The Ventures....
    . Other performers on the bill include Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
    , Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
    , Little Richard
    Little Richard

    Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
    , Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
     and up-and-comers Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
    . It is Lennon's first-ever public rock performance without one or more of the Beatles since meeting Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
     in 1957. He decides before returning to England to leave the Beatles permanently.
  • September 24 - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
     and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....
     perform the Concerto for Group and Orchestra
    Concerto for Group and Orchestra

    The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold in 1969, composed by Jon Lord....
     at the Royal Albert Hall
    Royal Albert Hall

    The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
     in London, in the first elaborate collaboration between a rock band and an orchestra.
  • October - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band release Trout Mask Replica.
  • October 14 - The final single by Diana Ross & The Supremes, "Someday We'll Be Together
    Someday We'll Be Together

    "Someday We'll Be Together" is an R&B/soul music song, written by Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers, and Harvey Fuqua in 1961. The song was originally recorded as a regional hit single by Bristol and Beavers, who performed together as "Johnny & Jackey", for Fuqua's Tri-Phi label....
    ", is released. The single becomes the final #1 hit of 1969 (and of the 1960s). After a farewell concert in January 1970, Diana Ross
    Diana Ross

    Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
     leaves the Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
     for a solo career.
  • November - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
     give live concert at Iowa State University
    Iowa State University

    The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant university and Space grant colleges university located in Ames, Iowa, United States....
    , where they record the track "Bye, Bye Love" for their upcoming album, Bridge Over Troubled Water
    Bridge over Troubled Water

    Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
    .
  • November 1 - After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    's song "Suspicious Minds", hits No. 1 on the Billboard chart (his last no. 1 during his lifetime).
  • November 7 - The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
     open their US tour in Fort Collins, Colorado
    Fort Collins, Colorado

    Fort Collins is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
    .
  • November 8 - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
    , on tour for the first time with a band, give live concert in Carbondale, Illinois
    Carbondale, Illinois

    Carbondale is a city in southern Illinois in the midwest United States, miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. It is known chiefly as the site of the main campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale....
    , presumably at Southern Illinois University
    Southern Illinois University

    Southern Illinois University is a state university located in southern Illinois with two institutions and multiple campuses. Glenn Poshard is President of Southern Illinois University....
    . The concert is not released until 1999 as part of a recording compiled by Head Records, called Village Vanguard
    Village Vanguard

    The Village Vanguard is a jazz nightclub in Greenwich Village in New York City on 7th Avenue South. The club was founded in 1935 by Max Gordon ....
    .
  • November 11 - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
     give live concert at Miami University
    Miami University

    Miami University is a coeducational public university founded in 1809 and is one of the eight original Public Ivys. The University is located in the college town of Oxford, Ohio with its primary focus on educating undergraduates....
     in Oxford, Ohio
    Oxford, Ohio

    Oxford is a city in northwestern Butler County, Ohio, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state. It lies in Oxford Township, Butler County, Ohio, originally called the College Township....
    . The recording is later released in the 1990s as Back To College on Yellow Dog Records and A Time Of Innocence on Bell Bottom Records.
  • November 30 - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
     air TV special Songs Of America, ostensibly an hour-long show that is anti-war and anti-poverty featuring live footage from their 1969 tour.
  • December - The Jackson 5
    The Jackson 5

    The Jackson 5 was a two-time Grammy Award-nominated American popular music Jackson family Musical ensemble from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally co...
     release their debut album, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
    Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5

    Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band The Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969....
    .
  • December 6 - Altamont Free Concert


  • Zubin Mehta
    Zubin Mehta

    Zubin Mehta is an Indian conducting of Western classical music....
     marries Nancy Kovack
    Nancy Kovack

    __forcetoc__Nancy Kovack is an United States former actress....
    .
  • Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     perform together on The Johnny Cash Show
    The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)

    The Johnny Cash Show was an United States television music variety show presented by Johnny Cash. The 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on American Broadcasting Company....
    .
  • Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
     & Ginger Baker
    Ginger Baker

    Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an England drummer, best known for his work with Cream . He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of Music of Africa influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the Rock music Hawkwind....
     form Blind Faith
    Blind Faith

    Blind Faith were an England blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech . The band, which was one of the first "supergroup ", released their only album, Blind Faith in August 1969 in music....
    .
  • David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
    's musical career begins with the single "Space Oddity
    Space Oddity

    "Space Oddity" is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a single in 1969. It is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who becomes depressed during an outer-space mission....
    ", the unofficial anthem for the moon landing in July of this year
  • Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
    's musical career begins as a member of Cardew's Scratch Orchestra


Bands Formed

  • Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath

    Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
     forms in Birmingham
    Birmingham

    Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
    , England.
  • Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople

    Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
     begin recording.
  • King Crimson
    King Crimson

    King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
     forms.
  • The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers

    The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
     forms.
  • Original line-up of UK pop group Brotherhood of Man
    Brotherhood of Man

    Brotherhood of Man are a United Kingdom pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me"....
     forms.
  • Mashina Vremeni
    Mashina Vremeni

    Mashina Vremeni , which formed in Moscow in the late 1960s, is recognized as one of the two "patriarchs" of Russian rock music . This indirectly dates the Soviet/Russian Rock and Roll tradition: the leaders of both bands were born in 1953 and admitted to getting into rock-n-roll due a high-school fascination with The Beatles....
     forms.
  • Judas Priest
    Judas Priest

    Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
     forms.


Albums released

  • A Way of Life
    A Way of Life (album)

    A Way of Life is the d?but album by British vocal harmony and folk-rock group The Family Dogg. It features singer-songwriter Albert Hammond, and a session group includes Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones , Jimmy Page, and John Bonham....
     - The Family Dogg
  • Abbey Road
    Abbey Road (album)

    Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
     - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • Aoxomoxoa
    Aoxomoxoa

    Aoxomoxoa is the third Recording studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was originally titled Earthquake Country. Many Deadheads consider this era of the Dead to be the experimental apex of the band's history....
     - Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  • Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • As I Am - The Troggs
    The Troggs

    The Troggs are an England Rock and roll band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in UK and the United States, including their most famous song, "Wild Thing "....
  • At Home with The Dubliners
    At Home with The Dubliners

    At Home with the Dubliners was the first album that The Dubliners made with producer Phil Coulter. Their contract with Major Minor had ended at this point and they signed with EMI-Columbia....
     - The Dubliners
    The Dubliners

    The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....
  • At San Quentin
    At San Quentin

    At San Quentin is a recording of a live concert given by Johnny Cash to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison. As well as being released on record the concert was filmed by Granada Television....
     (live) - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Ball
    Ball (Iron Butterfly album)

    Ball is a studio album by the rock band Iron Butterfly, released in February 1969. After the enormous success of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ", Iron Butterfly modified its acid-rock sound somewhat and experimented with shorter, more melodic compositions....
     - Iron Butterfly
    Iron Butterfly

    Iron Butterfly is an United States psychedelic rock and early Heavy metal music band, well known for their 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". They are considered an early heavy metal music band as a result of this song and others like it, as well as the title of their debut album, Heavy ....
  • Ballad of Easy Rider - The Byrds
    The Byrds

    The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
  • The Band
    The Band (album)

    The Band is the eponymous second album by The Band, released on September 22, 1969....
     - The Band
    The Band

    The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  • Barabajagal
    Barabajagal (album)

    'Barabajagal' is the seventh studio album and eighth album overall from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States on August 11, 1969 , but was not released in the United Kingdom because of a continuing contractual dispute that also prevented Sunshine Superman , Mellow Yellow , and The Hurdy Gurdy Man...
     - Donovan
    Donovan

    Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  • Basket of Light
    Basket of Light

    Basket of Light is a 1969 album by the folk rock group Pentangle . Basket of Light reached #5 on the UK charts largely on the basis of the single "Light Flight" , the theme from BBC first colour drama series Take Three Girls....
     - Pentangle
    Pentangle (band)

    Pentangle are a United Kingdom folk rock band. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version have been active since the early 1980s....
  • Bayou Country
    Bayou Country

    Bayou Country is the second album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 ....
     - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • The Best of Top of the Pops '69
    The Best of Top of the Pops '69

    The Best of Top of the Pops '69 is a 1969 compilation album released by British session musicians Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s....
     - Top of the Poppers
  • Bless Its Pointed Little Head
    Bless Its Pointed Little Head

    Bless Its Pointed Little Head is a live album by Jefferson Airplane recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969....
     - Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane

    Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  • Blind Faith
    Blind Faith (album)

    Blind Faith is the self-titled album by the British supergroup Blind Faith, which consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech ....
     - Blind Faith
    Blind Faith

    Blind Faith were an England blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech . The band, which was one of the first "supergroup ", released their only album, Blind Faith in August 1969 in music....
  • Blood Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears (album)

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is the 1969 self-titled second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.After the critical success of the first album, bandleader Al Kooper and two other members left the group....
     - Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
  • Blue Matter
    Blue Matter (album)

    Blue Matter is the third album by the band Savoy Brown.It was released by Parrot in 1969....
     - Savoy Brown
    Savoy Brown

    Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a United Kingdom blues band formed circa May 1965, in Battersea, South West London....
  • Blues Obituary - The Groundhogs
    The Groundhogs

    The Groundhogs were a British blues band founded in late 1963, which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day....
  • The Book of Taliesyn
    The Book of Taliesyn

    The Book of Taliesyn is the second album by England rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968 by Tetragrammaton Records in the US, and by EMI's Harvest Records in the UK, and Polydor Records in Canada and Japan in 1969....
     - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  • The Brothers: Isley
    The Brothers: Isley

    The Brothers: Isley is a 1969 album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck Records label. After years with other labels and fresh off the success of the It's Our Thing album, which included the hit title track, "It's Your Thing", the Isley Brothers celebrated their newfound independence by releasing another new album that...
     - The Isley Brothers
    The Isley Brothers

    The Isley Brothers are a Grammy Award United States rhythm and blues/soul music group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, Rhythm and blues, rock...
  • Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
    Caetano Veloso

    Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and activism. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil....
  • Canta In Italiano
    Canta in Italiano

    This is the Italian album of Dalida, sharing some songs with the previous albums, but containing her Italian version of her hit "Le temps des fleurs", "Quelli erano giorni"....
     - Dalida
    Dalida

    Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  • Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
     (debut)
  • Clouds
    Clouds (album)

    Clouds is the 1969 second album by Joni Mitchell. It is sparsely arranged, with little more than Mitchell's voice and solo acoustic guitar for accompaniment....
     - Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • Concerto for Group and Orchestra
    Concerto for Group and Orchestra

    The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold in 1969, composed by Jon Lord....
     - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
     & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"....
  • Concerto in B. Goode
    Concerto in B. Goode

    Concerto In B. Goode is a Chuck Berry album which was released in 1969 under the label, Mercury Records label. The title song is an extended instrumental exploration of "the Chuck Berry style" by its creator, running approximately 18 minutes in length and taking up the entire second side of the album....
     - Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  • Contact
    Contact (Silver Apples album)

    Contact is the second album by Silver Apples.The album was re-released in 1997 by MCA Records compiled with the band's first album Silver Apples....
     - Silver Apples
  • Country Folk - Waylon Jennings
    Waylon Jennings

    Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
  • Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash is the eponymous first album released by Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles ch...
     - Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
  • David's Album
    David's Album

    David's Album was a 1969 album by Joan Baez, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. It was Baez' eleventh album to date. Her then husband, David Harris , a country music fan, was about to be imprisoned for draft resistance, and she recorded the album as a gift to him....
     - Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  • Deep Purple III
    Deep Purple (album)

    Deep Purple is the third studio album by England hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 in music on Harvest Records in the UK and on Tetragrammaton Records in the US....
     - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  • Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5
    Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5

    Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band The Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969....
     - Jackson 5
  • Dizzy - Tommy Roe
    Tommy Roe

    Tommy Roe is an United States pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his 1962 hit single "Sheila," critic Bill Dahl writes that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum pop artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career."...
  • Doing His Thing - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • Donovan's Greatest Hits
    Donovan's Greatest Hits

    Donovan's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in January 1969 , and in the United Kingdom in March 1969 ....
     - Donovan
    Donovan

    Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  • Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde is the seventh album from the folk-rock and country-rock group The Byrds, released in February 1969 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CS 9755 in stereo....
     - The Byrds
    The Byrds

    The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
  • A Drop of The Dubliners
    A Drop of The Dubliners

    A Drop of The Dubliners is a compilation album by The Dubliners, released by Major Minor Records label as their contract with them ended. It consisted of tracks already available on the previous Major Minor releases, with the exception of the previously unavailable "Lock Up Your Daughters", a very rare track featuring a lead vocal shared...
     - The Dubliners
    The Dubliners

    The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....
  • Easy
    Easy (Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell album)

    Easy is an album released by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell on September 16, 1969 under the Tamla Records label. One song on the album, "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By", was a hit single and remains popular to this day....
     - Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye

    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  • Edwards Hand - Edwards Hand
    Edwards Hand

    Formerly known as Piccadilly Line, Edwards Hand are a musical group formed by England Rod Edwards and Roger Hand . After a 1968 in music album released under their former name, in 1969 in music Edwards Hand released an eponymous album produced by George Martin who, taking a break from working on The Beatles' The Beatles , described their...
  • Elephant Mountain
    Elephant Mountain

    Elephant Mountain is a 1969 album by The Youngbloods. It was included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...
     - The Youngbloods
    The Youngbloods

    The Youngbloods were an United States folk rock musical ensemble consisting of Jesse Colin Young , Jerry Corbitt , Lowell Levinger , and Joe Bauer ....
  • Ella
    Ella (album)

    Ella is a 1969 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Empty Sky - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • English Rose
    English Rose (album)

    'English Rose' could be considered the third album by Fleetwood Mac, released in January 1969 . It was originally a US-only compilation, combining 6 tracks from the UK-only Mr....
     - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
    Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

    Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is Neil Young's second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse . The album was produced by Neil Young and David Briggs and contains three of his most memorable songs: "Cinnamon Girl ", "Down by the River", and "Cowgirl in the Sand", all of which were written when Young had a 103 ?F fever....
     - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • Family Entertainment
    Family Entertainment (Family album)

    Family Entertainment was the second album from the British progressive rock band Family , released in February 1969. The cover of the album was a clear takeoff from the sleeve of the The Doors' second album, Strange Days , as Family frankly admitted....
     - Family
    Family (band)

    Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
  • Five Leaves Left
    Five Leaves Left

    Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by United Kingdom folk music musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter and unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs....
     - Nick Drake
    Nick Drake

    Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone....
  • Four in Blue - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  • From Elvis in Memphis
    From Elvis in Memphis

    From Elvis in Memphis is the thirty-fourth LP album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4155, in June 1969....
     - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • From Genesis to Revelation
    From Genesis to Revelation

    From Genesis to Revelation was the first album by Genesis , released in March 1969 on Decca Records in England . It was produced by Jonathan King, who discovered them in 1967 while the members of Genesis were pupils at Charterhouse School, King's alma mater as well....
     - Genesis
    Genesis (band)

    Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
     (debut)
  • From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis
    From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis

    From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis is the thirty-fifth LP album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 6020, in November 1969....
     (live) - Elvis Presley
  • Galveston - The Lawrence Welk Orchestra
    Lawrence Welk

    Lawrence Welk was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award....
  • Get Down to It - James Brown
  • Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil
    Gilberto Gil

    Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil , is a Grammy-winner Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment....
  • Goodbye - Cream
    Cream (band)

    Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  • Grand Canyon Suite - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Grand Funk
    Grand Funk (album)

    Grand Funk is Grand Funk Railroad's second studio album, and was released in December 1969 by Capitol Records. It was produced by Terry Knight and engineered by Ken Hamann....
     - Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad

    Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  • Green River
    Green River (album)

    Green River is the third album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 . In 2003, the album was ranked number 95 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • Hair (West End) - Original Cast
  • He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies
    The Hollies

    The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
  • Hollies Sing Dylan - The Hollies
  • Hollies Sing Hollies - The Hollies
  • The Holy Land - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Hot Rats
    Hot Rats

    Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa. It was released in October 1969. The album consists of six tracks, five of which are instrumental ....
     - Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  • House of Blue Lights, The
    The House of Blue Lights (album)

    The House of Blue Lights is an Rhythm & blues album by the soul music artist Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band. It was released in 1969 on Atlantic records....
     - Don Covay
    Don Covay

    Don Covay is an influential African-American rhythm and blues/rock and roll/soul music singer and songwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s, who received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994....
  • I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
    I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

    I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! is a 1969 studio album by Janis Joplin. It was the first solo studio album Joplin recorded after departing with Big Brother and the Holding Company....
     - Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin

    Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
     (solo debut)
  • I'm All Yours-Baby! - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • Instant Replay
    Instant Replay (The Monkees album)

    Instant Replay is the seventh album by The Monkees. Issued almost a year after the cancellation of the group's NBC television series, it is also the first album released after Peter Tork left the group....
     - The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  • The Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
  • In the Court of the Crimson King
    In the Court of the Crimson King

    In the Court of the Crimson King is the 1969 debut album by the United Kingdom progressive rock group King Crimson. The album reached #3 on the British charts....
     - King Crimson
    King Crimson

    King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
     (debut)
  • I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  • It's a Mother - James Brown
  • It's Our Thing
    It's Our Thing

    It's Our Thing is a 1969 album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck Records imprint. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in England, the Isleys composed this album in the style of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brown funk that was dominating the music in...
     - The Isley Brothers
    The Isley Brothers

    The Isley Brothers are a Grammy Award United States rhythm and blues/soul music group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, Rhythm and blues, rock...
  • It's The Dubliners
    It's The Dubliners

    It's The Dubliners is a compilation album released by Hallmark, containing tracks from The Dubliners' early albums and EPs released on the Transatlantic Records label....
     - The Dubliners
  • Jackson - Johnny Cash
  • J.J. Jackson's Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land - J. J. Jackson
    J. J. Jackson

    John J. "J. J." Jackson, Jr. was an US radio and television personality. He was one of MTV's five original VJ s . In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J"....
  • Joe South's Greatest Hits Vol.1 - Joe South
    Joe South

    Joe South is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter with a distinctive guitar sound....
  • Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Joy of a Toy
    Joy of a Toy

    Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. Its whimsical and unique vision is a clear indication of how Soft Machine might have progressed under Ayers' tenure....
     - Kevin Ayers
    Kevin Ayers

    Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."...
  • Just to Satisfy You
    Just to Satisfy You

    Just to Satisfy You is a 1969 album by Waylon Jennings on RCA Records. The title track has been covered by Glen Campbell....
     - Waylon Jennings
    Waylon Jennings

    Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
  • Kick Out the Jams
    Kick Out the Jams

    Kick Out the Jams is the first album by Detroit, Michigan protopunkers MC5, released in 1969. It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968....
     - MC5
    MC5

    The MC5 was an United States rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1964 and active until 1972. They played hard rock music that also included blues-rock, psychedelic rock, rock & roll and garage rock....
  • Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin (album)

    Led Zeppelin is the debut album of English Rock music band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969....
     - Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  • Led Zeppelin II
    Led Zeppelin II

    Led Zeppelin II is the second studio album by English Rock music band Led Zeppelin, released 22 October 1969 on Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969....
     - Led Zeppelin
  • Let It Bleed
    Let It Bleed

    Let It Bleed is an album by English rock music band The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969. The follow up to Beggars Banquet , it appeared shortly after the band's The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969....
     - The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  • Live/Dead
    Live/Dead

    Live/Dead is the first official live album released by the San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead. It was recorded over a series of live concerts in early 1969 and released later in the year on November 10....
     - Grateful Dead
  • Live at the Albert Hall - The Dubliners
  • Live at Yankee Stadium - The Isley Brothers
  • Love Man - Otis Redding
    Otis Redding

    Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
  • Ma Mčre me disait - Dalida
  • A Man Alone
    A Man Alone (album)

    A Man Alone is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1969 .In a tribute to the poet, all songs on this album were written by Rod McKuen....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Man of Words/Man of Music - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
     (later re-released as     Space Oddity)
  • Memories
    Memories (The Vogues album)

    Memories was an LP album by The Vogues, released by Reprise Records in 1969 in music, under catalog number RS 6347.The album was reissued, combined with the 1970 in music Vogues album The Vogues Sing The Good Old Songs, in compact disc format, by Taragon Records on November 6, 2001....
     - The Vogues
    The Vogues

    The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....
  • Moby Grape '69
    Moby Grape '69

    Moby Grape '69 is the rock band Moby Grape's third album and first after the departure of Skip Spence. Spence nonetheless is heard on one song, "Seeing", presumably from the Wow/Grape Jam sessions, and positioned as the final song on Moby Grape '69....
     - Moby Grape
    Moby Grape

    Moby Grape is an United States rock music group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country music, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music....
  • The Monkees Present - The Monkees
  • Monster Movie
    Monster Movie

    Monster Movie is the debut album by Can . Some copies of the LP bore the subtitle "Made in a castle with better equipment". Upon its release in 1969, the album became very influential in the development of Krautrock....
     - Can
    Can (band)

    Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
  • More of Old Golden Throat
    More of Old Golden Throat

    More of Old Golden Throat is a compilation album released by Johnny Cash on Columbia Records in 1969 . Culled from Single sides that had not previously appeared on albums , it is comprised primarily of lesser-known songs, although "You Beat All I Ever Saw" and "Second Honeymoon" reached No....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Mothermania
    Mothermania

    Mothermania is a compilation album by The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. It contains tracks, personally chosen by Zappa , that were previously released on Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only in It for the Money....
     - The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention

    The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
  • Mott the Hoople - Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople

    Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
  • M.P.G. - Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye

    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  • Mutantes
    Mutantes (album)

    Mutantes is the second album by the Brazil tropicalia band Os Mutantes. The album was originally released in 1969 and reissued in 1999 on Omplatten Records....
     - Os Mutantes
    Os Mutantes

    Os Mutantes are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicalismo movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence....
  • My Brother the Wind, Vol. 1 - Sun Ra
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  • My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2 - Sun Ra
  • My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • My Own Peculiar Way - Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson

    Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
  • My Way
    My Way (Frank Sinatra album)

    My Way is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1969.The album is a collection of contemporary pop songs, such as Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Nashville Skyline
    Nashville Skyline

    Nashville Skyline is Bob Dylan's 9th proper Bob Dylan discography, released by Columbia Records in 1969.The album marked a dramatic departure for Dylan, previously known for his groundbreaking, poetic folk music and rock'n'roll....
     - Bob Dylan
  • A Natural Woman
    A Natural Woman

    A Natural Woman is a 1969 album by Peggy Lee. It was arranged and conducted by Bobby Bryant and Mike Melvoin....
     - Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee

    Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  • Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
     - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • New York Tendaberry - Laura Nyro
    Laura Nyro

    Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  • The Nice - The Nice
    The Nice

    The Nice were an England progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of Rock and roll, jazz and european classical music....
  • Odessa - The Bee Gees
  • Offering (re-released as Ticket to Ride - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • Okie from Muskogee
    Okie from Muskogee

    Okie From Muskogee is an album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1969. Haggard has stated that the title song on this album is somewhat of a satire....
     - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
  • On the Threshold of a Dream
    On the Threshold of a Dream

    On the Threshold of a Dream is the third album by The Moody Blues' psychedelic era line-up and was released on the Deram label in 1969. It was their last album to be released by the band before they formed their own record label, Threshold Records, to be distributed by Decca Records....
     - The Moody Blues
  • On Time - Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad

    Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  • The Open Mind - The Open Mind
    The Open Mind

    The Open Mind were a London-based psychedelic rock band active in the 1960s and 1970s....
  • Ornette at 12 - Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman

    Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
  • Phallus Dei
    Phallus Dei

    Phallus Dei was the first album by Germany band Amon D??l II. The title translates into English as "God's Penis". The album was the result of the Amon D??l commune in Munich splitting, perhaps due to some members of the original Amon D??l's musical ineptitude....
     - Amon Düül II
    Amon Düül II

    Amon D??l II is a Germany rock music. The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the German rock music scene and a seminal influence on the development of Krautrock....
  • Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas
    Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (album)

    Pongo en tus manos abiertas is an album recorded by V?ctor Jara with the musicians from Quilapay?n in June, 1969. It was the third album released by the DICAP record label....
     - Víctor Jara
    Víctor Jara

    V?ctor Lidio Jara Mart?nez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of...
  • The Popcorn - James Brown
  • Pretties For You
    Pretties for You

    Pretties for You was the first album by Alice Cooper. At this time, the name Alice Cooper referred to the band as well as its lead singer. The music has a psychedelic flavor to it....
     - Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  • Pride in What I Am - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
  • Rehearsals for Retirement - Phil Ochs
    Phil Ochs

    Philip David Ochs was a United States protest song and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice....
  • Rhymes and Reason - John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
     (debut)
  • A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
    Procol Harum

    Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
  • Same Train, Different Time - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
  • At San Quentin
    At San Quentin

    At San Quentin is a recording of a live concert given by Johnny Cash to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison. As well as being released on record the concert was filmed by Granada Television....
     - Johnny Cash
  • Santana
    Santana (album)

    Santana is the debut album released 1969 of the San Francisco Rock and roll group Santana . The album features the line-up of Carlos Santana , Gregg Rolie , David Brown , Michael Shrieve , Michael Carabello , and Jose Areas ....
     - Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
  • Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud - James Brown
  • Scott 3
    Scott 3

    Scott 3 is the third solo album by singer songwriter Scott Walker .Upon release in 1969, it met with slower sales than his previous albums, as pop audiences struggled to keep pace with Walker's increasingly experimental approach....
     - Scott Walker
    Scott Walker (singer)

    Scott Walker is the stage name of the American musician Noel Scott Engel , former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He has been living in England since the 1960s, and continues to release new solo material....
  • Scott 4
    Scott 4

    Scott 4 is Scott Walker 's fifth solo album . It was originally released in late 1969 under his birth name, Noel Scott Engel , and was the first Walker album to consist solely of self-penned songs ....
     - Scott Walker
  • Seattle
    Seattle (Perry Como album)

    Seattle was Perry Como 17th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 15th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the sixth featuring Dynagroove technology....
     - Perry Como
    Perry Como

    Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  • The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children
    The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children (album)

    The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children was The Simon Sisters' third album and their first for Columbia Records, released in 1969 in music ....
     - The Simon Sisters
  • The Soft Parade
    The Soft Parade

    The Soft Parade is the fourth studio record album by the The Doors, released in 1969.The album met with some controversy among fans and critics due to its inclusion of Brass instrument and string instrument arrangements, as opposed to the more stripped-down sound of their earlier recordings....
     - The Doors
    The Doors

    The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  • Soul Shakedown - Bob Marley & the Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
     (debut)
  • More - Pink Floyd
  • Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth
    Spooky Tooth

    Spooky Tooth were an England progressive rock band from the late 1960s. They faded into obscurity afterwards....
  • Stand Up
    Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)

    Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull . Prior to this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams had left the band due to musical differences with Ian Anderson ....
     - Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • The Stooges
    The Stooges (album)

    The Stooges is the self-titled debut of the rock band The Stooges. It was released in August 1969 and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard magazine album charts....
     - The Stooges
    The Stooges

    The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
     (debut)
  • Sunshine of your Love
    Sunshine of your Love (album)

    Sunshine of Your Love is a live 1969 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a big band arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol and Ernie Heckscher....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Surround Yourself with Cilla - Cilla Black
    Cilla Black

    Cilla Black Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and television personality. After a successful recording career, she went on to become the highest paid female presenter in British television history....
  • Take a Message to Mary
    Take a Message to Mary (album)

    Take a Message to Mary was a 1969 in music album recorded by the singer/golfer Don Cherry . It was issued by Monument Records as catalog number SLP 18109....
     - Don Cherry
    Don Cherry (singer/golfer)

    Donald Ross Cherry is a singer of traditional pop music and a golfer.Cherry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He started as a big band singer, in the orchestras of Jan Garber, Victor Young and Tommy Dorsey....
  • The Allman Brothers Band
    The Allman Brothers Band

    The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
     - The Allman Brothers Band
    The Allman Brothers Band

    The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
     (debut)
  • The Good Rats - Good Rats
  • Then Play On
    Then Play On

    Then Play On is the third studio album by blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac, first released in September 1969 . It was the first of their original albums to feature Danny Kirwan and the last with Peter Green ....
     - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • This Is - Desmond Dekker
    Desmond Dekker

    Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites "....
  • Three in the Attic - Chad and Jeremy
    Chad and Jeremy

    Chad and Jeremy was a singing folk music rock music duet in the 1960s, comprising Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde . They were part of the British Invasion, a large influx of Great Britain rock and pop music musicians to the United States music scene....
  • Three Week Hero
    Three Week Hero

    Three Week Hero is an album released by rock singer P. J. Proby on April 8, 1969 by Liberty Records. The album contains a mixture of dramatic pop, blues, rock, and country style songs....
     - P.J. Proby
  • Till
    Till (album)

    Till was an LP album by The Vogues, released by Reprise Records in 1969 in music, under catalog number RS 6326.The album was reissued, combined with the 1968 in music Vogues album Turn Around, Look at Me , in compact disc format, by Taragon Records on November 6, 2001....
     - The Vogues
    The Vogues

    The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....
  • Tommy
    Tommy (rock opera)

    Tommy is the fourth album by the English Rock music band The Who. A double album telling a loose story about a "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock opera....
     - The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  • To Our Children's Children's Children - The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues

    The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
  • Touching You, Touching Me - Neil Diamond
  • Trogglomania - The Troggs
  • Truly Fine Citizen - Moby Grape
  • Turtle Soup - The Turtles
    The Turtles

    The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
  • 20/20
    20/20 (album)

    20/20 is the sole 1969 album release by The Beach Boys, and their last studio album to be released with Capitol Records for the next seventeen years....
     - The Beach Boys
    The Beach Boys

    The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  • Ummagumma
    Ummagumma

    Ummagumma is a progressive rock double album by Pink Floyd, released in 1969. The first disc is a live album of their normal setlist of the time, while the second one contains individual compositions by each member of the band....
     - Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  • Uncle Meat
    Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat, released in 1969, is the soundtrack to The Mothers of Invention's long-delayed Uncle Meat ; the front cover, designed by Cal Schenkel, included the words ""....
     - The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention

    The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
  • Unhalfbricking
    Unhalfbricking

    Unhalfbricking is the third album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional album in their history and marked a further musical move away from American influences towards more traditional English folk songs that had begun on their previous album, What We Did On Our Holidays and argua...
     - Fairport Convention
    Fairport Convention

    Fairport Convention are an England folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement....
  • The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground (album)

    The Velvet Underground is the third album by American rock group The Velvet Underground. It was their first record to feature Doug Yule, John Cale's replacement in the band....
     - The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  • The Vogues' Greatest Hits - The Vogues
    The Vogues

    The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....
  • Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane
  • Waylon Jennings - Waylon Jennings
  • What We Did on Our Holidays - Fairport Convention
    Fairport Convention

    Fairport Convention are an England folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement....
  • Willy and the Poor Boys
    Willy and the Poor Boys

    Willy and the Poor Boys is the fourth album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 . The only mention of the album's title is in the chorus of "Down on the Corner"....
     - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • Wonder Where I'm Bound - Dion DiMucci
  • Words and Music by Bob Dylan - The Hollies
  • Wanted Dead or Alive
    Wanted Dead or Alive (Warren Zevon album)

    Wanted Dead or Alive is the first album by singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1969. . It was originally released on the Imperial label....
     - Warren Zevon
    Warren Zevon

    Warren William Zevon was an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician noted for weaving his offbeat, sardonic view of life into his music, composing dark, sometimes humorous songs often laced with political or historical themes....
  • Yellow Submarine
    Yellow Submarine (album)

    Yellow Submarine is a soundtrack album released by The Beatles corresponding with the film Yellow Submarine .In contrast to how the film was received, Yellow Submarine is usually considered The Beatles' weakest release, as it featured only six songs by the band....
     - The Beatles
  • Yes - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
     (debut)
  • The Young Mods' Forgotten Story - The Impressions
    The Impressions (American band)

    The Impressions are an United States music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel music, soul music, and R&B....
  • Yummy Yummy Yummy - Julie London
    Julie London

    Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....


Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1969.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
 		 Get Back
Get Back

"Get Back" is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song was originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." It later became the closing track of Let It Be , which was The Beatles' last album released before the group formally sp...
 		 1969 UK 1 - Apr 1969, US BB 1 - May 1969, Canada 1 - Apr 1969, Holland 1 - Apr 1969, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1969, Norway 1 - May 1969, Germany 1 - May 1969, Éire 1 - May 1969, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Sep 1969, Australia Goset 1 - May 1969, RYM 6 of 1969, US CashBox 14 of 1969, US BB 21 of 1969, DDD 24 of 1969, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1969, POP 33 of 1969, Europe 38 of the 1960s, Italy 46 of 1969, Virgin 64, Scrobulate 91 of British, OzNet 115, Germany 217 of the 1960s, WXPN 566, Acclaimed 1367
2 The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
 		 Honky Tonk Woman 1969 UK 1 - Jul 1969, US BB 1 - Jul 1969, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1969, Éire 1 - Aug 1969, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Aug 1969, US CashBox 2 of 1969, Canada 2 - Aug 1969, Norway 2 - Aug 1969, Germany 3 - Aug 1969, Holland 4 - Jul 1969, Australia 4 of 1969, RYM 4 of 1969, DDD 4 of 1969, US BB 8 of 1969, POP 8 of 1969, TheQ 27, Europe 50 of the 1960s, Italy 92 of 1969, Acclaimed 97, Rolling Stone 116, WXPN 189, Germany 209 of the 1960s
3 Zager & Evans In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
In the Year 2525

"In the Year 2525 " is a hit song from 1969 by the Lincoln, Nebraska duo Zager and Evans which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the six weeks commencing July 12....
 		 1969 UK 1 - Aug 1969, US BB 1 - Jun 1969, Canada 1 - Jul 1969, Holland 1 - Aug 1969, France 1 - Mar 1970, Switzerland 1 - Aug 1969, Norway 1 - Aug 1969, Germany 1 - Aug 1969, Éire 1 - Sep 1969, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Jan 1970, Australia Goset 2 - Aug 1969, US CashBox 11 of 1969, Australia 19 of 1969, US BB 39 of 1969, RYM 60 of 1969, POP 75 of 1969, Europe 77 of the 1960s, Germany 109 of the 1960s
4 The Archies
The Archies

The Archies are a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews , Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie Comics universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show....
 		 Sugar Sugar 1969 UK 1 - Oct 1969, US BB 1 - Aug 1969, US CashBox 1 of 1969, Canada 1 - Jul 1969, Norway 1 - Nov 1969, Germany 1 - Jan 1970, Éire 1 - Nov 1969, Switzerland 2 - Oct 1969, Holland 4 - Sep 1969, Australia Goset 5 - Aug 1969, France 8 - Feb 1970, South Africa 8 of 1969, US BB 10 of 1969, POP 10 of 1969, TOTP 26, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1969, RYM 40 of 1969, Italy 70 of 1970, DDD 77 of 1969, Germany 157 of the 1960s, Acclaimed 1996
5 Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 		 Suspicious Minds
Suspicious Minds

"Suspicious Minds" is a US song, written in 1956, about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship. Most notably performed by Elvis Presley beginning in 1969, "Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jump-started Presley's career after his successful Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special....
 		 1969 US BB 1 - Sep 1969, Canada 1 - Sep 1969, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jun 1970, Australia Goset 1 - Nov 1969, South Africa 1 of 1969, UK 2 - Nov 1969, Holland 6 - Oct 1969, France 6 - Mar 1970, Germany 8 - Jan 1970, Norway 10 - Feb 1970, Australia 16 of 1969, RYM 19 of 1969, Scrobulate 19 of oldies, Europe 22 of the 1960s, DDD 23 of 1969, POP 26 of 1969, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1969, US BB 40 of 1969, Poland 40 - Aug 1999, US CashBox 43 of 1969, Acclaimed 60, Rolling Stone 91, WXPN 121, OzNet 156


Some top American and/or British hit singles

  • "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
    Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

    "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", sometimes incorrectly known as "The Age of Aquarius" or "Let the Sunshine In", is a medley of two songs from the musical Hair written by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot, and released as a single in 1969 by The Fifth Dimension....
    " - Fifth Dimension
    Fifth dimension

    In physics and mathematics, a tuple of N real numbers can be understood to represent a coordinate system in an N-dimensional Euclidean space. When N=5, the space consisting of all locations with a nonzero fifth number is called the fifth dimension....
  • "Baby Make It Soon" - The Marmalade
  • "Badge
    Badge (song)

    "Badge" is a rock song by Cream , penned by Eric Clapton and George Harrison during a collaborative effort between Clapton, Harrison and Ringo Starr....
    " - Cream
    Cream (band)

    Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  • "Ballad of John and Yoko
    Ballad of John and Yoko

    "The Ballad of John and Yoko" is a song released by The Beatles as a single in May 1969. Primarily written by John Lennon, the song was attributed, as was the custom, to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team....
    " - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • "Blackberry Way
    Blackberry Way

    "Blackberry Way" is a single by The Move.Written by Roy Wood and produced by Jimmy Miller , Blackberry Way was a bleak counterpoint to the sunny psychedelia of earlier recordings....
    " - The Move
    The Move

    The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
  • "But You Know I Love You
    But You Know I Love You

    "But You Know I Love You" is a song written by Mike Settle and was a 1969 pop hit for The First Edition, a group he was a member of which also included Kenny Rogers....
    " - Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
    The First Edition

    The First Edition was a country music/rock band stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones Terry Williams . The band formed in 1967, with noted folk musician Mike Settle and the operatically trained Thelma Camacho completing the lineup....
  • "The Boxer
    The Boxer

    "The Boxer" is a folk rock Ballad written by Paul Simon in 1968 and first recorded by Simon and Garfunkel. It was released as the follow up single to their number one hit "Mrs....
    " - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
  • "(Call Me) Number One" - The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes

    The Tremeloes are an English people rock and roll musical ensemble, founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex. The Tremeloes are one of the longest surviving, still playing regularly more than 50 years after the group's founding....
  • "Cloud Nine
    Cloud Nine (song)

    "Cloud Nine" is a 1968 hit single recorded by The Temptations for the Motown label. It was the first of their singles to feature Dennis Edwards instead of David Ruffin in the lineup, was the first of producer Norman Whitfield's psychedelic soul tracks, and won Motown its first Grammy Award....
    " - The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  • "Crimson and Clover
    Crimson and Clover

    "Crimson and Clover" is a song by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was one of the biggest hits of the 1960s and reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in Canada in 1969....
    " - Tommy James & the Shondells
    Tommy James & the Shondells

    Tommy James and the Shondells was a 1960s United States rock and roll band . They had two chart-topper single in the United States ? "Hanky Panky " and "Crimson and Clover"  ? but also released five other Top 40 chart-topper; "I Think We're Alone Now," "Mony Mony," "Crystal Blue Persuasion", "Mirage ", and "Sweet Cherry Wine"....
  • "Curly
    Curly (Move song)

    'Curly' was a song recorded in 1969 by England rock group The Move.The song charted at No. 12 in the UK, and was the last single by the band to feature Carl Wayne on vocals, as well as the first with Rick Price replacing Trevor Burton on bass guitar....
    " - The Move
    The Move

    The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
  • "Don't Give In To Him" - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
    Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

    Gary Puckett & The Union Gap was an United States pop rock band in the late 1960s....
  • "Everyday People" - Sly & the Family Stone
    Sly & the Family Stone

    Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
  • "Get Back
    Get Back

    "Get Back" is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song was originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." It later became the closing track of Let It Be , which was The Beatles' last album released before the group formally sp...
    " - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • "Get Together" - The Youngbloods
    The Youngbloods

    The Youngbloods were an United States folk rock musical ensemble consisting of Jesse Colin Young , Jerry Corbitt , Lowell Levinger , and Joe Bauer ....
  • "Gimme, Gimme Good Lovin'" - Crazy Elephant
    Crazy Elephant

    Crazy Elephant was a short-lived United States bubblegum pop band noted for their 1969 hit record single , "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'". Crazy Elephant was a recording studio concoction, created by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz of Super K Productions....
  • "Give Peace a Chance
    Give Peace a Chance

    "Give Peace a Chance" is a song written by John Lennon and originally credited to Lennon/McCartney . However, when Lennon's posthumous live album with Elephant's Memory, Live in New York City , was reissued in the 1990s, "Give Peace a Chance" was credited solely to Lennon....
    " - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  • "Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O (album)

    Hawaii Five-O is an instrumental album by The Ventures. It was released in 1969 on Liberty Records and reached #11 on the Billboard Top LP chart....
    " - The Ventures
    The Ventures

    The Ventures are an United States instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two masonry workers, has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling instrumental band of all time....
  • "Hello Susie" - Amen Corner
    Amen Corner (band)

    Amen Corner was a successful Great Britain pop music band , formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales....
  • "Hello World" - The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes

    The Tremeloes are an English people rock and roll musical ensemble, founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex. The Tremeloes are one of the longest surviving, still playing regularly more than 50 years after the group's founding....
  • "Honky Tonk Women
    Honky Tonk Women

    "Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single on 4 July 1969 in the UK and a week later in the US, it topped the charts in both nations....
    " - Rolling Stones
  • "I Can Hear Music
    I Can Hear Music

    "I Can Hear Music" is a pop song that was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector and originally performed by the Ronettes . It was later performed or "covered" by the famous Beach Boys , then by Larry Lurex, which was the and Jos? Hoebee in ....
    " - The Beach Boys
    The Beach Boys

    The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  • "I Can't Get Next to You
    I Can't Get Next to You

    "I Can't Get Next to You" is a 1969 number-one Single recorded by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield for the Gordy label. The song was the number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in 1969, from October 11 to October 25, replacing "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies and replaced by "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Pr...
    " - The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  • "I Don't Know Why
    I Don't Know Why

    "I Don't Know Why", , is a 1968 song by Stevie Wonder, from the album For Once in My Life . It also serves as B-Side for the 1969 hit My Cherie Amour....
    " - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "I Started a Joke
    I Started a Joke

    "I Started a Joke" is a 1968 song by the Bee Gees from their album Idea , which was released in September of that year. The song is mainly written and sung by Robin Gibb....
    " - The Bee Gees
    Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
  • "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice
    (If Paradise Is) Half as Nice

    " Half as Nice" is a popular single by Amen Corner .Originally written by the Italian people singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti for La Ragazza 77, alias Ambra Borelli, in 1968 as "Il paradiso della vita" , and later in 1969 for Patty Pravo as "Il Paradiso" , it was translated into English language by Jack Fishman....
    " - Amen Corner
    Amen Corner (band)

    Amen Corner was a successful Great Britain pop music band , formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales....
  • "I Heard It Through the Grapevine
    I Heard It through the Grapevine

    "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown Records. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by The Miracles....
    " - Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye

    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  • "In the Ghetto
    In the Ghetto

    "In the Ghetto" is a song written by Mac Davis and was originally titled "The Vicious Circle". The song was made popular by rock and roll singer Elvis Presley....
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "In the Year 2525
    In the Year 2525

    "In the Year 2525 " is a hit song from 1969 by the Lincoln, Nebraska duo Zager and Evans which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the six weeks commencing July 12....
    " - Zager and Evans
    Zager and Evans

    Zager and Evans were a Lincoln, Nebraska rock music-popular music Duet of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who met at Nebraska Wesleyan University....
  • "The Israelites" - Desmond Dekker
    Desmond Dekker

    Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites "....
     and the Aces
  • "It Miek" - Desmond Dekker
    Desmond Dekker

    Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites "....
     and the Aces
  • "Lay Lady Lay
    Lay Lady Lay

    "Lay Lady Lay" is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. The words of the song are sung by Dylan in a low, soft-sounding voice instead of his familiar high-pitched nasal-sounding voice....
    " - Bob Dylan
  • "The Liquidator" - Harry J All Stars
  • "Listen to the Band" - The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  • "Living In The Past
    Living in the Past (Jethro Tull song)

    Living in the Past is the title of one of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull 's most well-known songs. It is notable for being written in the List of musical works in unusual time signatures....
    " - Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • "Love Child
    Love Child (song)

    "Love Child" is a 1968 number-one hit single released by the Motown label as a single for The Supremes, although Diana Ross is the only member of the group present on the record....
    " - Diana Ross & the Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  • "My Cherie Amour
    My Cherie Amour

    "My Cherie Amour" is a 1969 soul classic by Motown singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.The song was originally recorded in 1966, but not released ....
    " - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "Pinball Wizard
    Pinball Wizard

    "Pinball Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the England rock music band The Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy ....
    " - The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  • "Proud Mary" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
    Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

    "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, winning an Academy Award for Best_Original_Song#List_of_winners_and_nominees....
    " - B. J. Thomas
    B. J. Thomas

    B. J. Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s....
  • "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
    Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

    "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" is a song written by Mel Tillis which was made world famous by The First Edition in 1969.History...
    " - Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
    The First Edition

    The First Edition was a country music/rock band stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones Terry Williams . The band formed in 1967, with noted folk musician Mike Settle and the operatically trained Thelma Camacho completing the lineup....
  • "Run Away Child, Running Wild
    Runaway Child, Running Wild

    "Runaway Child, Running Wild" is a 1969 hit single for the Gordy label, performed by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield. The single was both the second from their landmark Cloud Nine LP, and the second of their "psychedelic soul" tracks penned by Whitfield and former Motown artist Barrett Strong....
    " - The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  • "Someday We'll Be Together
    Someday We'll Be Together

    "Someday We'll Be Together" is an R&B/soul music song, written by Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers, and Harvey Fuqua in 1961. The song was originally recorded as a regional hit single by Bristol and Beavers, who performed together as "Johnny & Jackey", for Fuqua's Tri-Phi label....
    " - Diana Ross & the Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  • "Something
    Something

    File:Beatles-singles-something-us-2.jpg"Something" is a single released by The Beatles in 1969, and featured on the album Abbey Road . It was the first song written by George Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles single....
    /Come Together
    Come Together

    "Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song is the lead-off track on The Beatles' September 1969 album Abbey Road ....
    " - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • "Soulful Strut
    Am I the Same Girl

    "Am I the Same Girl" is a popular song soul music song, written in 1968 for United States soul singer Barbara Acklin by her husband, Eugene Record, lead singer of The Chi-Lites, and Sonny Sanders....
    " - Young-Holt Unlimited
    Young-Holt Unlimited

    Young-Holt Unlimited were a soul music and jazz instrumental musical ensemble from Chicago, Illinois.Drummer Isaac Holt and bassist Eldee Young, formerly members of Ramsey Lewis' jazz trio , formed a new outfit called the Young-Holt Trio with pianist Don Walker in 1966....
  • "Spinning Wheel
    Spinning Wheel (song)

    "Spinning Wheel" is the title of a popular song from 1969 by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears. The song was written by band member and vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and appears on their Blood, Sweat & Tears ....
    " - Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
  • "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
    Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

    "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is a suite of short songs written by Stephen Stills and performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash . It appeared on the group's self-titled debut album in 1969....
    " - Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

    Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
  • "Suspicious Minds
    Suspicious Minds

    "Suspicious Minds" is a US song, written in 1956, about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship. Most notably performed by Elvis Presley beginning in 1969, "Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jump-started Presley's career after his successful Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special....
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Sugar, Sugar
    Sugar, Sugar

    "Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by fictional characters The Archies....
    " - The Archies
    The Archies

    The Archies are a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews , Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie Comics universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show....
  • "This Girl Is A Woman Now" - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
    Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

    Gary Puckett & The Union Gap was an United States pop rock band in the late 1960s....
  • "This Girl's In Love With You" - Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick

    Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
  • "This Magic Moment
    This Magic Moment

    "This Magic Moment" is the title of a song written by lyricist Doc Pomus and pianist Mort Shuman. It is one of their best known hits. It was first recorded by Ben E....
    " - Jay and the Americans
    Jay and the Americans

    Jay and the Americans were a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane , Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne , though their greatest success on the Billboard magazine came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black....
  • "Touch Me
    Touch Me (The Doors song)

    "Touch Me" is a song by The Doors from their album The Soft Parade. Written by Robby Krieger, the riff is influenced by The Four Seasons "C'mon Marianne." It is notable for its extensive usage of brass and string instruments to accent Jim Morrison's vocals , and was one of the most popular Doors songs....
    " - The Doors
    The Doors

    The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  • "Wait A Million Years" - The Grass Roots
    The Grass Roots

    The Grass Roots are a United States rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriter duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri....
  • "Whole Lotta Love
    Whole Lotta Love

    "Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English rock music band Led Zeppelin. It is featured as the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the US as a single....
    " - Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  • "Winter World of Love" - Engelbert Humperdinck
    Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

    Engelbert Humperdinck is a well-known Pop music singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s and 1970s, after adopting the name of the famous Germany opera composer Engelbert Humperdinck as his own stage name....
  • "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
    Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

    "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" is a 1969 Soul music song by Ronald Norman Miller and Bryan Wells, released by United States Motown singer-songwriter-musician Stevie Wonder on the album My Cherie Amour ....
    " - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" - Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick

    Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....


Published popular music

  • "The April Fools" w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
     from the film The April Fools
  • "Bad Moon Rising
    Bad Moon Rising (song)

    "Bad Moon Rising" is a 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty. It was the lead single from their album Green River and the group?s breakthrough hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in September 1969....
    " w.m. John C. Fogerty
  • "The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch

    The Brady Bunch is an United States television situation comedy based around a large stepfamily. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on the American Broadcasting Company network and was subsequently television syndication around the world....
     theme", by Frank DeVol
  • "Bridge over Troubled Water
    Bridge over Troubled Water

    Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
    " w.m. Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • "But, Mister Adams"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Cool, Cool Considerate Men"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Didn't We?" w.m. Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb

    Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away ," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston ," and "MacArthur Park "....
  • "Down On The Corner" w.m. John C. Fogerty
  • "The Egg"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Everybody's Talkin'" w.m. Fred Neil
  • "Hawaii Five-O" m. Mort Stevens
  • "He Plays The Violin"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • If You Could Read My Mind"     w.m. Gordon Lightfoot
    Gordon Lightfoot

    Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music....
  • "In The Ghetto"     w.m.Mac Davis
    Mac Davis

    Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis , is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music Crossover success....
  • "Is Anybody There?"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Is That All There Is?
    Is That All There Is?

    "Is That All There Is?" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969 in music. The song was originally recorded by Leslie Uggams in 1968....
    "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "Israelites"     w.m. Desmond Dekker
    Desmond Dekker

    Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer and songwriter. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites "....
     & Leslie Kong
  • "Keem-O-Sabe" m. Bernard Binnick & Bernice Borisoff
  • "Jean
    Jean (song)

    "Jean" is the title of a popular song from 1969 . It was written by the United States poet and composer Rod McKuen, who also recorded a version of the song....
    " w.m. Rod McKuen
    Rod McKuen

    Rod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s....
     from the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short book by Muriel Spark, by far the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan Publishers in 1961....
  • "Just Leave Everything to Me" w.m. Jerry Herman
    Jerry Herman

    Jerry Herman is an United States composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly! , Mame, and La Cage aux Folles....
    , from the film version of Hello, Dolly!
  • "Leaving on a Jet Plane
    Leaving on a Jet Plane

    "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is a song written by John Denver and Kenneth Browder in 1967 during a layover at an airport in Washington and recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio that year....
    " w.m. John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  • "The Lees of Old Virginia"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Marrakesh Express" w.m. Graham Nash
    Graham Nash

    Graham William Nash is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
  • "Molasses To Rum"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Momma, Look Sharp"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Odds And Ends (Of A Beautiful Love Affair)" w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "Piddle, Twiddle And Resolve"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "Proud Mary" w.m. John C. Fogerty
  • "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" w.m. Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers & Jackie DeShannon
    Jackie DeShannon

    Jackie DeShannon , is an United States singer-songwriter with a string of hit record song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the Rock and Roll period....
  • "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
    Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

    "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, winning an Academy Award for Best_Original_Song#List_of_winners_and_nominees....
    "     w.Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m.Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
    . Introduced by B. J. Thomas
    B. J. Thomas

    B. J. Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s....
     on the soundtrack of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Revisionist Western that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy and his partner Harry Longabaugh , based loosely on historical fact....
    . The song won the Academy Award
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
    .
  • "Suspicious Minds
    Suspicious Minds

    "Suspicious Minds" is a US song, written in 1956, about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship. Most notably performed by Elvis Presley beginning in 1969, "Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jump-started Presley's career after his successful Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special....
    " w.m. Fred Zambon
  • "Sweet Caroline" w.m. Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • "Till Then"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
    What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

    "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand for the 1969 film The Happy Ending and was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Song....
    " w. Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman

    Alan Bergman is a prolific United States lyricist and songwriter.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA....
     & Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman

    Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English studies at New York University....
     m. Michel LeGrand
    Michel Legrand

    Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
  • "Yellow River" w.m. Christie (band)
    Christie (band)

    Christie were an England pop music musical band formed at the end of the 1960s. They are best remembered for their United Kingdom chart-topper hit single, "Yellow River " released in 1970....
  • "You Don't Love Me When I Cry" w.m. Laura Nyro
    Laura Nyro

    Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  • "Yours, Yours, Yours"     w.m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....


Classical music

  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     - Harp Suite
  • Gavin Bryars
    Gavin Bryars

    Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism....
     - The Sinking of the Titanic
  • Sylvano Bussotti
    Sylvano Bussotti

    Sylvano Bussotti is an Italy composer of 20th century classical music whose work is unusually notated and often brings up special problems in interpretation....
     - Rara Requiem
  • George Crumb
    George Crumb

    George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
     - Night of the Four Moons for alto, alto flute/piccolo, banjo, electric cello, and percussion; Madrigals, Books III (for soprano, harp, and percussion) and Books IV for soprano, flute/alto flute/piccolo, harp, double bass, and percussion
  • Mario Davidovsky
    Mario Davidovsky

    Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
     - Synchronisms No. 5 for percussion players and tape
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
     - St Thomas Wake
  • Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Holmboe

    Vagn Gylding Holmboe, was a Denmark composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neoclassicism style....
     - String Quartet no. 10, op. 102
  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti

    Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
     - Ramifications for 12 solo strings (1968-69)
  • Francis Jackson
    Francis Jackson

    Francis Alan Jackson Order of the British Empire is pre-eminent as a United Kingdom organist and composer.A popular figure in the musical profession, both nationally and internationally, Jackson was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and received his early education as a Chorister at York Minster under his precursor, the legendary...
     - Sonata for Organ No. 1
  • Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa

    Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
     - Concerto for Cello
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
     - Symphony No. 14, Op. 135 for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion
    Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)

    The Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969 in music, and was premiered later that year. It is a sombre work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings of poems by four authors....
  • Leif Thybo - Concerto for violin and orchestra


Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

  • Gordon Crosse
    Gordon Crosse

    Gordon Crosse is an English people composer and Music technology.Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a British undergraduate degree classification#First class honours degree in Music....
     - The Grace of Todd
  • Jakov Gotovac
    Jakov Gotovac

    Jakoff Gotovac was born on October 11, 1895 in Split , Croatia, and died on October 16, 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia. He was a composer and conducting of classical music....
     - Petar Svacic
    Petar Svacic

    Petar Svacic was elected king by Croatian feudal lords in 1093. Petar's seat of power was based in Knin. His rule was marked by a struggle for control of the country with Hungary....


Musical theater

  • 1776
    1776 (musical)

    1776 is a Tony Award winning musical theatre with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. It is based on the events leading to the writing and signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1776....
         Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on March 16, transferred to the St. James Theatre
    St. James Theatre

    The St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th St. Broadway , New York City, New York. It was built by Abe Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant....
     on December 28, 1960 and transferred to the Majestic Theatre on April 27, 1971 for a total run of 1217 performances
  • Ann Veronica
    Ann Veronica

    Ann Veronica is a novel by H.G. Wells first published in 1909. The book deals with contemporary political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminist issues....
     ( Music: Cyril Ornadel
    Cyril Ornadel

    'Cyril Ornadel' is a United Kingdom Conductor , songwriter and composer chiefly in musical theatre. He studied at the Royal College of Music.As well as being musical director for a number of major West End theatre shows, including the first London production of My Fair Lady, he composed several musicals of his own, including Pickwick '...
    , Lyrics: David Croft
    David Croft

    Major David John Croft Order of the British Empire is an England writer, Television producer and actor. He was born into a Show business family: his mother, Anne, was a famous stage actress while his father, Reginald, had a successful career as a radio actor in Hollywood....
    ) London
    West End theatre

    West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
     production opened at the Cambridge Theatre
    Cambridge Theatre

    The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30....
     on April 17 and ran for 44 performances
  • Canterbury Tales
    Canterbury Tales - Musical

    Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill & Martin Starkie....
         Broadway production
  • Coco
    Coco (musical)

    Coco is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Andr? Previn. It starred Katharine Hepburn in her only stage musical....
     ( Music: André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
    , Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner

    Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
    , Book: Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner

    Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
          Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
    Mark Hellinger Theatre

    The Mark Hellinger Theatre was a Legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan until it was converted into the Times Square Church in 1989....
     on December 18 and ran for 329 performances
  • Dear World
    Dear World

    Dear World is a Broadway theatre Musical theater with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. With its opening, Herman became the only composer-lyricist in history to have three productions running simultaneously on Broadway...
         Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
    Mark Hellinger Theatre

    The Mark Hellinger Theatre was a Legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan until it was converted into the Times Square Church in 1989....
     on February 6 and ran for 132 performances
  • La Strada
    La Strada (musical)

    La Strada is a musical theatre with lyrics and music by Lionel Bart, with additional lyrics by Martin Charnin and additional music by Elliot Lawrence....
     (Music and Lyrics: Lionel Bart
    Lionel Bart

    Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
    )     Broadway production opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
    Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

    The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor of London's Shakespearean playhouse, on January 10 1910 with a musi...
     on December 14 and ran for one performance
  • Mame
    MAME

    MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten....
         London production opened at the Theatre Royal
    Theatre Royal

    Theatre Royal is the name of many theatres, especially in the United Kingdom. The name was once an indication that the theatre was a patent theatre, with a Royal Letters Patent without which performances of serious drama would be illegal....
     on February 20 and ran for 443 performances
  • Oklahoma!
    Oklahoma!

    Oklahoma! is the first musical theater written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs ....
     (Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
     & Hammerstein
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
    ) - Broadway revival
  • Promises, Promises
    Promises, Promises

    Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
         London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
    Prince of Wales Theatre

    The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
     on October 2 and ran for 560 performances


Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Oh! What a Lovely War
    Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the Musical theatre Oh, What a Lovely War! that Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963 in literature....
  • Paint Your Wagon
    Paint Your Wagon (film)

    Paint Your Wagon is a musical film released in 1969 in film, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Lowe, set in a mining camp in California Gold Rush-era California....
  • Sweet Charity
    Sweet Charity (film)

    Sweet Charity is a 1969 in film musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine....


Births

  • January 4 - Boris Berezovsky
    Boris Berezovsky (pianist)

    Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky is a Russian pianist.Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz....
    , pianist
  • January 5 - Marilyn Manson
    Marilyn Manson (person)

    Brian Hugh Warner , better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an United Statesn musician and artist, known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the Marilyn Manson ....
    , rock singer
  • January 14 - Dave Grohl
    Dave Grohl

    David Eric Grohl is an American Rock musician, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C., area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream ....
    , Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)

    Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
    , Foo Fighters
    Foo Fighters

    Foo Fighters is an American Rock music band formed by singer/guitarist/drummer Dave Grohl in 1995. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994....
  • January 27 - Cornelius
    Cornelius (musician)

    Cornelius is a Japanese people recording artist and producer.He was ranked at number 43 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians by HMV.Oyamada's first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene....
    , musician
  • February 5 - Bobby Brown
    Bobby Brown

    Bobby Brown is a Grammy Award-winning United States contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award....
    , (New Edition
    New Edition

    New Edition is an United States R&B/Pop group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978, that was most popular during the 1980s. Their success led to the creation of late-1980s and 1990s boy bands like New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men....
    )
  • February 21 - James Dean Bradfield
    James Dean Bradfield

    James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Wales rock band Manic Street Preachers....
     (Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers

    Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as the Manics, they are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore ....
    )
  • March 1 - Dafydd Ieuan
    Dafydd Ieuan

    Dafydd Ieuan is the drummer with the band , Super Furry Animals. He currently lives in Cardiff with his wife Debbie and their two children Cai and Lleucu....
    , drummer (Super Furry Animals
    Super Furry Animals

    Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock music band, with leanings towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan ....
    )
  • March 11 - Pete Droge
    Pete Droge

    Pete Droge is an American alternative/folk rock musician.His debut album Necktie Second, released by American records in 1994, featured the tongue-in-cheek , , as well as the songs "Sunspot Stopwatch" and "So I am Over You."...
    , folk musician
  • March 25 - Cathy Dennis
    Cathy Dennis

    Cathy Dennis is a Grammy Awards award-winning dance-pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. After a moderately successful international solo career, Dennis has latterly achieved great success as a writer of pop songs, scoring seven UK number 1s and winning five Ivor Novello Awards....
    , singer
  • April 11 - Cerys Matthews
    Cerys Matthews

    'Cerys Matthews' is a Welsh people Singing and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the Welsh Musical ensemble#Rock and pop bands Catatonia , for her 1999 Christmas duet with Tom Jones and her 2007 appearance on I'm a Celebrity......
    , singer
  • April 27
    • Darcey Bussell
      Darcey Bussell

      Darcey Andrea Bussell Order of the British Empire is an England dancer and former Ballerina of The Royal Ballet, a major international ballet company based in London, England....
      , ballerina
    • Mica Paris
      Mica Paris

      Mica Paris is an England singer , radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. She abbreviated her forename to Micha before adopting its phonetic version as she moved further away from her gospel roots....
      , singer
  • April 29 - Master P
    Master P

    Percy Miller , formerly known as Master P, is an American entertainer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial Conglomerate and Better Black TV....
    , rapper, record label owner
  • May 14 - Danny Wood
    Danny Wood

    Daniel William Wood Jr. is a singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. He is also a member of the "original" boy band New Kids on the Block and also serves as one of the key choreographers....
     (New Kids on the Block
    New Kids on the Block

    New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
    )
  • May 18 - Martika
    Martika

    Marta Marrero , better known by her stage name Martika is an United States Pop music singer and actor....
    , singer
  • May 24 - Rich Robinson
    Rich Robinson

    Rich Robinson is a musician and a founding member of the rock group The Black Crowes. Along with older brother Chris Robinson , Rich formed the band in 1984 while the two brothers were still attending high school ....
     (The Black Crowes
    The Black Crowes

    The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
    )
  • May 29 - Chandler Kinchla, Blues Traveler
    Blues Traveler

    Blues Traveler is an American rock music band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul music, and Southern rock....
  • June 5 - Brian McKnight
    Brian McKnight

    Brian McKnight is a Grammy-nominated United States singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer, Pop music and Contemporary R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who can play nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, Drum kit, Percussion instrument, trombone, tuba, French horn and trumpet....
    , singer-songwriter
  • June 13 - Sřren Rasted, Aqua
    Aqua (band)

    Aqua is a Denmark-Norway dance-pop band , perhaps best known for their 1997 breakthrough single Barbie Girl. The group formed in 1989 and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s....
  • June 15 - Ice Cube
    Ice Cube

    O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube is an United States of America rapper, actor, screenwriter, and film producer.He began his career as a member of the rap group N.W.A along with group leader Eazy-E, and later launched a successful solo career in music and Film....
    , rapper
  • June 16 - Bénabar
    Bénabar

    B?nabar is a France songwriter and singer, who could be compared to Vincent Delerm and other singers from his generation. As many of them he was influenced by Georges Brassens, Renaud S?chan, Jacques Higelin and also Tom Waits....
    , singer-songwriter
  • July 5 - RZA
    RZA

    Robert F. Diggs , better known as RZA , is an United States Grammy winning music producer, rapper, and occasional actor. A prominent figure in hip hop music, he is the de facto leader of the hip hop music group Wu-Tang Clan....
    , rapper, record producer
  • August 6 - Elliott Smith
    Elliott Smith

    Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, Oregon, where he first gained popularity....
  • August 17 - Donnie Wahlberg
    Donnie Wahlberg

    Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor/musician Mark Wahlberg....
     (New Kids on the Block
    New Kids on the Block

    New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
    )
  • August 18 - Everlast, singer
  • August 19 - Clay Walker
    Clay Walker

    Ernest Clayton Walker, Jr. is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single "What's It to You", which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, as did its follow-up, 1994's "Live Until I Die"....
    , country singer
  • August 29 - Me'Shell NdegeOcello
    Me'shell Ndegeocello

    Michelle Lynn Johnson , better known as Meshell Ndegeocello, is an United States singer-songwriter, rapping, bassist and multi-instrumentalist....
  • September 5 - Dweezil Zappa
    Dweezil Zappa

    Dweezil Zappa is an American Rock music guitarist....
    , guitarist and son of Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  • September 6 - CeCe Peniston
    CeCe Peniston

    CeCe Peniston is a female United States dance music singer. She scored an international hit single in 1991 with her signature song "Finally "....
    , singer
  • September 16 - Marc Anthony
    Marc Anthony

    Marc Anthony is an American Grammy award-winning, Latin Grammy award-winning, and Premio Lo Nuestro award winning singer/songwriter/actor. He is best known for his salsa music and ballads and for his wide-ranging tenor vocals....
    , singer-songwriter
  • September 24
    • DeVante Swing
      DeVante Swing

      DeVante Swing is an African American record producer, songwriter, and singer. DeVante got his start as a member of the R&B chart-topping group Jodeci, which helped to define the new jack swing sound during the 1990s....
      , singer-songwriter, record producer
    • Shawn "Clown" Crahan, percussionist/backing vocalist for Slipknot
      Slipknot (band)

      Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
  • October 3 - Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani

    Gwen Ren?e Stefani is an American recording artist and fashion designer. Stefani serves as lead vocalist for the rock music band No Doubt. Formed with influences ranging from punk rock to new wave music, their third wave ska oriented third studio album Tragic Kingdom propelled them to stardom, selling 16 million copies worldwide....
    , vocalist (No Doubt
    No Doubt

    No Doubt is an American Rock music band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop music sound of their first album, No Doubt , failed to make waves due to the popularity of the Grunge music movement at the time....
    )
  • October 9 - PJ Harvey
    PJ Harvey

    Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
    , singer-songwriter
  • October 16 - Wendy Wilson
    Wendy Wilson

    Wendy Wilson is a singer and member of the pop music singing Trio , Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of The Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, and his first wife Marilyn Rovell; a member of girl group The Downeys; and she is the younger sibling of Carnie Wilson....
    , Wilson Phillips
    Wilson Phillips

    Wilson Phillips is an United States vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson andWendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips. Their 1990 self-titled debut album scored four Grammy Award nominations, two American Music Award nominations and a Billboard Music Award....
  • October 30 - Snow
    Snow (musician)

    Darrin O'Brien , is an award-winning Canada reggae musician, best-known by his stage name Snow. and for the 1993 United States of America number-one hit single "Informer ."...
    , reggae musician
  • November 3 - Robert Miles
    Robert Miles

    Robert Miles is a Swiss Italian record producer, composer and musician in trance music and ambient music music....
    , DJ
  • November 4 - Sean Combs
    Sean Combs

    Sean John Combs , known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and now Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer....
     (P. Diddy), rapper
  • November 9 - Scarface
    Scarface (rapper)

    Brad Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface, is an United States rapper originally known for his work as a member of The Geto Boys....
    , rapper
  • December 4
    • Scott St. John
      Scott St. John

      Scott St. John is a List of Canadians violinist and violist. He is a member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and on faculty at Stanford University, where he teaches violin and chamber music....
      , viola player
    • Jay-Z
      Jay-Z

      Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
      , rapper
  • December 9 - Jakob Dylan
    Jakob Dylan

    Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and as the son of legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan....
    , The Wallflowers
    The Wallflowers

    The Wallflowers are a Grammy Award-winning rock music band from Los Angeles, California....
    , son of Bob Dylan and Sara Lownds
    Sara Dylan

    Sara Dylan , born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky and later known as Sara Lownds, was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. She was married to Bob Dylan from November 1965 until June 1977....
  • date unknown - Buckethead
    Buckethead

    Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more....
     (born Brian Caroll), guitarist.


Deaths

  • January 4 - Paul Chambers
    Paul Chambers

    Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
    , jazz bassist (b. 1935) (tuberculosis)
  • February 15 - Pee Wee Russell
    Pee Wee Russell

    Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
    , jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
  • February 20 - Ernest Ansermet
    Ernest Ansermet

    Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Switzerland Conducting....
    , conductor (b. 1883)
  • February 23 - Constantin Silvestri
    Constantin Silvestri

    Constantin Silvestri was a Romanian Conducting and composer....
    , conductor and composer (b. 1913)
  • March 25 - Billy Cotton
    Billy Cotton

    William Edward Cotton , better known as Billy Cotton, was a United Kingdom band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the dance band era....
    , bandleader (b. 1899)
  • April 2 - Fortunio Bonanova
    Fortunio Bonanova

    Fortunio Bonanova is the pseudonym of Josep Llu?s Moll , who was a baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director....
    , baritone (b. 1895)
  • April 10 - Fernando Ortiz
    Fernando Ortiz

    Fernando Ortiz Fern?ndez was a Cubans essayist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of Indigenous peoples of the Americas Cuban culture....
    , ethnomusicologist (b. 1881)
  • April 20 - Benny Benjamin
    Benny Benjamin

    William "Benny" Benjamin , nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the main drummer for the Motown studio band known as The Funk Brothers....
     ("Papa Zita"), drummer (b. 1925) (stroke)
  • April 23 - Krzysztof Komeda
    Krzysztof Komeda

    Krzysztof Komeda was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. He wrote the scores for Roman Polanski?s films Rosemary?s Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Knife in the Water and Cul-de-sac....
    , jazz musician and composer (b. 1931) (haematoma)
  • April 29 - Julius Katchen
    Julius Katchen

    Julius Katchen was an Untied States of America concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Brahms's solo piano compositions....
    , pianist (b. 1926) (cancer)
  • May 1 - Ella Logan
    Ella Logan

    Ella Logan was a Scotland-born actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway theatre, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally....
    , actress and singer (b. 1913)
  • May 23 - Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh

    James Francis McHugh was a United States composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs....
    , US composer and pianist (b. 1894)
  • June 14 - Wynonie Harris
    Wynonie Harris

    Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris , born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an United States blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics....
    , R & B singer ("Mister Blues") (b. 1915)
  • June 17 - Rita Abatzi
    Rita Abatzi

    Rita Abatzi was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s.She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now Izmir, Turkey....
    , rebetiko
    Rebetiko

    Rebetiko, plural rebetika, , occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is the name for a type of Greece urban folk music. A roots music form of sorts, the sound of the genre reflects the combined influences of European music and Middle Eastern music....
     musician (b. 1914)
  • June 22 - Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
    , singer and actress (b. 1922) (overdose of barbiturates)
  • July 3 - Brian Jones
    Brian Jones

    Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an England guitarist and founding member of the England rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable Mod image, Recreational drug use excesses and his 27 Club....
    , guitarist, founder member of The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
     (b. 1942) (drowned)
  • July 5 - Wilhelm Backhaus
    Wilhelm Backhaus

    Wilhelm Backhaus was a Germany pianist and pedagogue.Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire in Leipzig with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt am Main....
    , pianist (b. 1884)
  • July 26 - Frank Loesser
    Frank Loesser

    Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
    , US songwriter (b. 1910)
  • August 6 - Theodor Adorno, exponent of the "New Music
    New music

    The term "New music" has referred to various classes of music, including*contemporary classical music of the more experimental music or Downtown music variety, pursuant to the success of the 1979 "New Music New York" festival and the New Music America festival that succeeded it every year through 1990...
    " (b. 1903)
  • August 13 - Jacob do Bandolim
    Jacob do Bandolim

    Jacob do Bandolim was a Brazilian composer and musician. Born Jacob Pick Bittencourt, his stage name means "Mandolin Jacob", after the instrument he played....
    , mandolin player and composer (b. 1918)
  • September 5 - Josh White
    Josh White

    Joshua Daniel White , best known as Josh White, was a legendary United States of America singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist....
    , blues musician (b. 1914)
  • October 3 - Skip James
    Skip James

    Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an United States Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter....
    , blues musician (b. 1902)
  • October 4 - Natalino Otto
    Natalino Otto

    Natalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto was an Italy singer. He started the Swing in Italy....
    , Italian singer (b. 1912)
  • October 22 - Tommy Edwards
    Tommy Edwards

    Tommy Edwards was an African American singing and songwriter. His biggest selling gramophone record was with the multi-million selling song, "It's All in the Game"....
    , singer (b. 1922)
  • November 8 - Ricardo Aguirre
    Ricardo Aguirre

    Ricardo Jos? Aguirre Gonz?lez, was born in Maracaibo, May 9, 1939 and died in the same city, November 8, 1969. Teacher of primary education , radio announcer and musician ....
    , protest singer (b. 1939)
  • November 18 - Ted Heath
    Ted Heath (bandleader)

    George Edward 'Ted' Heath was the most famous England bandleader of the 40s, 50s and early 60s.Heath was born at 76 Atheldene Avenue, Wandsworth, South London; he started playing the trombone at the age of fourteen, and his early career involved stints with Bert Firman, Jack Hylton, Ambrose , Sid Lipton, and Gerald Bright....
    , bandleader (b. 1902)
  • November 23 - Spade Cooley
    Spade Cooley

    Donnell Clyde 'Spade' Cooley was an United States Western Swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. His career ended when he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans....
    , swing musician and murderer (b. 1910) (heart attack)
  • December 1 - Magic Sam
    Magic Sam

    Samuel "Magic Sam" Gene Maghett was an American blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter....
    , blues musician (b. 1937) (heart attack)
  • December 22 - Wilbur Hatch
    Wilbur Hatch

    Wilbur Hatch , was an United States music composer who worked primarily in radio and television. He was born in Mokena, Illinois and died in Studio City, California....
    , pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1902)
  • date unknown
    • Marcel LaFosse
      Marcel LaFosse

      Marcel LaFosse was a France musician and trumpeter with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Alexandre Petit, and was first Acc?sit in the Conservatory Prix in 1911....
      , trumpeter (b. 1895)
    • Nicola Salerno
      Nicola Salerno

      Nicola Salerno, also known as Nisa was an Italy lyricist. He formed a famous songwriting duo with Renato Carosone....
      , Italian lyricist (b. 1910)
  • probable - Mississippi Joe Callicott
    Mississippi Joe Callicott

    Joe Callicott, better known as Mississippi Joe Callicott , was an United States blues singer and guitarist.His "Love Me Baby Blues" has been cover version by various musician, e.g....
    , blues musician (b. 1900)


Awards


Grammy Awards

  • Grammy Awards of 1969
    Grammy Awards of 1969

    The 11th Grammy Awards were held in 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968....


Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

  • Eurovision Song Contest 1969
    Eurovision Song Contest 1969

    The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th in the series. It was the first time that the contest resulted in a tie for first place, with four countries each gaining 18 points....


Leeds International Piano Competition

  • Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu

    Radu Lupu is a Romanian-Jewish concert piano. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....


Further reading

  • 1969: The Year Everything Changed
    1969: The Year Everything Changed

    1969: The Year Everything Changed is a narrative history book written by American author and editor Rob Kirkpatrick....
     by Rob Kirkpatrick
    Rob Kirkpatrick

    Rob Kirkpatrick is an American author and editor....
    . Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. ISBN 9781602393660.


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