This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music during the 1960s.
Famous quotes containing the words heavy, metal and/or music:
“Let me give light, but let me not be light,
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)