From the MC5 to Silver Apples, 1969 was a year when music was reinventing itself amid the counterculture boom. The Beatles ...

Of course, in Perry’s native Jamaica, the sound-system circuit meant those at the controls were as much a focus – and sometimes more so – than the singers or bands. Duke Reid, Clement ‘Sir Coxson’ ...

The pace of the news cycle slowed to a crawl, the shock and surprise followed by the dull inevitability of events already set into motion. The music of 1968 mirrored its historical moment. The trends ...

14 Songs from 1968: Can you name them from just one line? Get ready to test your knowledge of the iconic year 1968 through its unforgettable music. This was a year of profound social change, political ...

So many absolutely amazing rock songs came out in the year 1969. One of the greatest decades of music was coming to a close, and several different genres were pumping out hits from bands and musicians ...

If 1967 and 1968 were years of innovation and invention as far as popular music was concerned, then without doubt 1969 could be considered the watershed year when everything was transformed completely ...

In 1969 you either bought your music on black plastic circles and used a needle to scratch sounds out of the vinyl, heard it on the airwaves, most likely on a lo-fi AM radio, or, if you were lucky, ...

One of the late 1970s' most iconic disco anthems once charted as a country song in 1969, recorded by one of the genre’s original outlaws. Jennings' crowning achievement with the song came after he had ...