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1960s in music
See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present)
1965 in music
1966 in music
- International trends
- Early psychedelia from The Who (A Quick One (Happy Jack)) and The Moody Blues (The Magnificient Moodies) is popular, along with bands that begin to merge these more progressive sounds with pop, like The Beatles (Revolver), Shadows of Knight (Gloria), The Troggs (Wild Thing), The Mamas & the Papas (If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears) and, most influentially, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, including "Good Vibrations", one of the innovative songs of the era
- King Sunny Ade begins performing; he will eventually become one of the most popular African performers
- Pete Seeger's "Guantanamera" popularizes Cuban guajira internationally
- San Francisco becomes the mecca for hippies and psychedelic rock, where bands like Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane launch the "Summer of Love"
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention release Freak Out! the first rock double album
- Long jams are found on several popular singles, including Bob Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", The Seeds' "Up in Her Room", Rolling Stones' "Going Home" and The Fugs' "Virgin Forest"; the last is an innovative mixture of collage techniques with rock and early world music
- Holy Modal Rounders' are the most well-known exponents of a new style called acid-folk
- Music of Colombia
- Music of the Czech Republic
- The Porta Festival of folk singer-songwriters occurs for the first time
- Music of Greece
- Music of Ireland
- Music of Jamaica
- Music of Kenya
- Music of the Lesser Antilles
- Music of New Zealand
- Music of Nigeria
- King Sunny Ade begins performing and recording with limited success; his innovations, however, bring new, more pop-oriented elements to juju
- Music of Russia
- Music of Togo
- Bella Bellow represents her country at the Dakar Arts Festival, beginning a career that will make her perhaps the most beloved musician in Togo's modern history
- Music of the United Kingdom
- Music of the United States
- Music of Zimbabwe
1967 in music
1968 in music
1969 in music
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Power trio | Rock trio
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