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LATE SIXTIES MUSIC |
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| As the sixties progressed so did the music into weird and wonderful drug tinged poetry, The Beatles were moving too fast for the smaller fans that were growing up at the time, so these smaller fans who were more at home with their previous bubblegum pop |  |
were lost in this new world of sitars and the Tibetan book
of the dead,
Enter their replacements, the specially made for TV Monkees (wrong spelling as in the bea in Beatles). they first entered the scene after being chosen for neither music ability or acting ability but for how they looked. |
| although both Micky and Davy were professional
actors and Michael and Peter were professional musicians (this was just
a bonus).
On their first appearance on the small screen they were an American version of how the Beatles were in the beginning (see television page) but as the years progressed, they too were losing fans through them growing up and so they too had to move with the times, before being axed from their television show. |
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sad what drugs do to you |
People say that the Buddy Holly aeroplane crash of 1959 was the day the music died, I myself would say that as the sixties moved on, It was brutally tortured until it whimpered out when Paul McCartney sued the other Beatles (but don't worry folks! the other Beatles smashed all the windows of his house as a pay back ha! ha!) | |
| But as the Sixties drew on all bands went a bit weird for example music became a combination of feed back and concepts, The Who went so far as to construct a "rock Opera" named Tommy about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who was remarkably good at pinball and cured his illness by smashing a mirror that he continuously stared into. | ||
| Other bands played around with the idea of rock operas and the jury is still out on who invented it, although it isn't something I would argue about. |  |
Of course during the end of the Sixties many
"hippies" went to music festivals, drawn in by the headlining
bands like Jimi Hendrix, the Who and the Grateful Dead and ofcourse the
drugs and "free love"
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