1960-1969
1960-1969 STATIC TEXT
MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASINATION 1968
Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others will be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention had […]
BOB DYLAN “TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH BLUES” 1963
By the time I was a freshman in college the reports of the loyalty oaths, of commies under the bed, had been reduced to hyperbole, and my friends and I dismissed it all with a sense of moral superiority. We made fun of it with Bob Dylan singing in the background: “Well, I wus lookin’ […]
HUMAN BE-IN 1967
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THE ROLLING STONES “BEGGARS BANQUET” 1968
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THE ROLLING STONES “2000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME” 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BajH1t3uHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player The Stones have just finished a new record Beggar’s Banquet. Their last release, Their Satanic Majesties Request, came at the peak of acid mania: on the cover the Stones are pictured wearing capes and surrounded by castles and crescent moons on a cover reproduced as if in three dimensions. “Far out,” we said. This […]
“ROUTE 66” THE ROLLING STONES 1965
I woke up the next moning at four and drove off into a gathering snow storm which I tried to outrun. I almost didn’t make it, spinning out on the freeway in front of an onrushing semi, only to slide off onto the shoulder as it flew by. But I survived. I’d drive from before […]
BOB DYLAN BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME 1965
It seems as though every album – from every artist – is a major creative leap further. In 1965 Bob Dylan releases Bringing It All Back Home. He’s on the cover with an unnamed woman in a red dress; he’s holding a cat and looking like the head of SPECTRE in a James Bond movie. […]
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE 1965
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THE BEATLES EIGHT DAYS A WEEK 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzEvqDQfIA The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, The Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles release four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, […]
THE YARDBIRDS “FOR YOUR LOVE” 1965
The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, The Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles release four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, December.) […]
