Timeline of Musical Events - 1960s

1960s

• 1969 in music - Death of Brian Jones; - Death of Judy Garland; Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York; Birth of Tiësto and Jennifer Lopez; The Beatles - Abbey Road, Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline, The Who's Tommy released, Jackson 5 appearance on Ed Sullivan
• 1968 in music - Birth of Toni Braxton; - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, The Beatles - The Beatles (AKA The White Album), Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison, The Band - Music from Big Pink; Birth of John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) and Thom Yorke
• 1967 in music - Birth of Kurt Cobain, Chuck Schuldiner; Death of Woody Guthrie, John Coltrane, Otis Redding; The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Doors - The Doors (with the hit single, "Light My Fire"), Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding, The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere; Monterey Pop Festival
• 1966 in music - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Cream - Fresh Cream, The Beatles - Revolver, Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
• 1965 in music - The Beatles - Help!, The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited (with the single "Like a Rolling Stone"), The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads (with the single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"), Herman's Hermits debut; Death of Edgard Varèse, Nat King Cole.
• 1964 in music - Death of Sam Cooke, Milton Babbitt, Ensembles For Synthesizer; The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show; The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night, Bill Lear invents 8-track tape cartridge; Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin', British Invasion begins, Beatlemania invades America and becomes international, The Righteous Brothers become the first white act signed to Phil Spector’s Philles label. The Beach Boys - I Get Around released and hits No. 1.
• 1963 in music - First cassette tapes made by Philips, The Beatles - Please Please Me, Birth of Paul Oakenfold, Birth of Whitney Houston, Birth of Eazy-E; Death of Patsy Cline, Édith Piaf; Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu" is released on the Moonglow label.
• 1962 in music - "Love Me Do" released as a single by The Beatles; Bob Dylan is the debut album from the highly influential American artist of the same name. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old. Birth of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Jon Bon Jovi, Axl Rose; Death of Marilyn Monroe
• 1961 in music - Death of Cisco Houston, Moss Hart
• 1960 in music - Birth of Bono; Death of Oscar Hammerstein II