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The rise of an alternative culture among affluent youth, creating a huge market for rock and blues music produced by drug-culture, influenced bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Doors, and also for radical music in the folk tradition pioneered by Bob Dylan, The Mamas and the Papas, and Joan Baez in the United States, and in England, Donovan was helping to create folk rock.

Significant events in music in the 1960s:

• Motown Record Corporation founded in 1960. It's first Top Ten hit was "Shop Around" by the Miracles in 1960. "Shop Around" peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100, and was Motown's first million-selling record.
• The Marvelettes scored Motown Record Corporation's first US #1 pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman" in 1961. Motown would score 110 Billboard Top-Ten hits between 1961 and 1971.
• The Beatles went to America in 1964, spearheading the first British Invasion.
• Bob Dylan goes electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
• The Beach Boys release Pet Sounds in 1966, ushering in the era of album-orientated rock.
• Bob Dylan is called "Judas" by an audience member during the legendary Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, the start of the Bootleg recording industry follows, with recordings of this concert circulating for 30 years – wrongly labeled as – The Royal Albert Hall Concert before a legitimate release in 1998 as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert.
• In February of 1966, Nancy Sinatra's song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" became very popular.
• In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.
• Jefferson Airplane release the influential Surrealistic Pillow in 1967.
• The Velvet Underground release their influential self-titled debut albumThe Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967.
• The Doors release their self-tilted debut album The Doors.
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience release two successful albums during 1967 Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love that innovate both guitar, trio and recording techniques.
• The Beatles release the seminal concept album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in June 1967.
• Pink Floyd releases their debut record the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
• Bob Dylan releases the Country Rock album John Wesley Harding in December 1967.
• The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 was the apex of the so-called "Summer of Love".
• After The Yardbirds had folded, Jimmy Page and manager Peter Grant, met with Robert Plant and they together with John Bonham and John Paul Jones called themselves Led Zeppelin and released their début album Led Zeppelin.The Band releases the roots rock album Music from Big Pink in 1968.
• Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as lead singer, becomes an overnight sensation after their performance at Monterey Pop in 1967 and release their massively successful second album Cheap Thrills in 1968.
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience release the highly influential double LP Electric Ladyland in 1968 that furthered the guitar and studio innovations of the previous two albums.
• The Rolling Stones film the TV special Rock and Roll Circus in December 1968 which was never broadcast during its contemporary time. Considered for decades as a fabled 'lost' performance until released in North America on Laserdisc and VHS in 1995. Features performances from The Who; The Dirty Mac featuring John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell; Jethro Tull and Taj Mahal.
• The Who release and tour the first rock opera Tommy in 1969.
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band release the avant garde Trout Mask Replica in 1969
• The Woodstock Festival, and four months later, the Altamont Free Concert in 1969.

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