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* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung

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!! Musicians

* Music/The13thFloorElevators. Formed in 1966.

* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand. Formed in 1969.
* Music/HerbAlpert. Formed The Tijuana Brass in 1962 and released thirteen albums with them for the next seven years.

* Music/TheAnimals. Formed in 1962, disbanded in 1966.

* Music/AshtonGardnerAndDyke. Founded in 1968, reached charts in 1971.

* Music/AlbertAyler. Released his first album in 1963.

* Music/PDQBach. His work was first "discovered" in 1965.

* Music/JoanBaez. Debut album (solo) in 1960. She had already recorded a number of songs for a 1959 compilation album.
* Creator/LongJohnBaldry. Released first professional recordings in 1964. He'd already recorded a demo single in 1958.
* Music/TheBand. Had originally formed as a backup band for a singer. Became an independent band c. 1964.

* Music/SydBarrett. Started solo work at the end of the decade.

* Music/TheBeachBoys. Formed in 1961, created most acclaimed work from 1966 to 1973.

* Music/TheBeatles: Perhaps the biggest and most influential act of the 20th century (if not all time), being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_the_Beatles credited]] for having a significant impact on not just popular music, but also western society and culture as a whole. Formed in 1960, they released the majority of their work during this decade, including many albums and songs considered by analysts to be among the most influential works of music of all time, and their popularity still continues across generations to this day.

* Music/TheBeeGees. Debut single in 1963.
* Music/JorgeBenJor. Formally debuted in 1963 with ''Samba Esquema Novo''.

* Big Brother And The Holding Company. Formed in 1965.

* Music/TheBigThree. Formed in 1961.
* Music/BlackSabbath. Formed in 1968-1969, debut album in 1970.
* Music/BlueCheer. Formed in 1966. Debut album in 1968.
* Music/BlueOysterCult. Formed in 1967, debut album in 1972.
* Music/MarcBolan. Started the hippie Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1967.

* Music/DavidBowie. Released his debut single in 1964, and stayed active as a label-hopping teen rocker before signing with Creator/DeramRecords in 1966. Was initially credited under his real name of Davy Jones before adopting the stage name "David Bowie" to avoid confusion with the [[Music/TheMonkees Monkees]] member of the same name.
** 1967 - ''[[Music/DavidBowie1967 David Bowie]]''

* Music/GeorgesBrassens. Career started in the 1950s. Still released new records during the 1960s.
* Music/{{Bread|Band}}: Debuted in 1968.
* Music/JacquesBrel. Career started in the 1950s, still kept releasing new albums during this decade until he temporarily quit his career in 1966.
* Music/ArthurBrown: Scored a #1 Hit with "Fire," revered CultClassic ProgressiveRock musician.
* Music/JamesBrown. Career started in 1955. Brown released several of his major hits in this decade.

* Music/BillBruford. Began career with Music/{{Yes}} in 1968.
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield. Lasted between 1966-8.
* Music/TimBuckley. Debuted in 1966.
* Music/TheByrds. Formed in 1964.

* Music/{{Can}}. Formed in 1968.
* Music/CaptainBeefheart. Debut album in 1967.

* Music/{{Caravan}}. Debut album in 1969.
* Music/{{Carpenters}}. Debut album in 1969.
* Music/WendyCarlos. First album (''Switched-On Bach'', as Walter Carlos) in 1968. Sometimes [[OlderThanTheyThink/{{Music}} erroneously claimed to be the first synth album]].

* Music/JohnnyCash. Career and record releases started in 1955, but Cash enjoyed mainstream popularity in this decade.

* Music/RayCharles. Career and record releases started in 1949, but Charles reached his greatest popularity in this decade.

* Music/{{Cher}}. Solo debut album in 1965.
* Music/{{Chicago|Band}}. Formed in 1967, debut album in 1969.

* Music/PatsyCline. Already an established country star of the 1950s, Cline's popularity skyrocketed after her death in a plane crash in 1963; for 28 years, the 1967 compilation ''Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits'' was the best-selling album of any female country artist.
* Music/JoeCocker. Debut single in 1964, debut album in 1969.

* Music/EddieCochran: Died in 1960.

* Music/NatKingCole: Died in 1965.

* Music/AliceColtrane. Debuted as a bandleader in 1968.
* Music/JohnColtrane. Career went strong until his death in 1967.

* Music/AliceCooper. Debut album for the band and its lead singer in 1969.

* Music/{{Cream}}. Formed in 1966, disbanded in 1968.

* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival. Renamed and reformed in 1968. Previously known as ''The Blue Velvets'' and ''The Golliwogs'', but had gone inactive in 1966.

* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung: Debuted in 1968 without Neil Young, but he came aboard from 1969 on.

* Music/DeepPurple. Debut album in 1968.

* Music/JohnDenver. Debut solo album released in 1966
* Music/NeilDiamond. Became famous in the 1960s as a songwriter and as a singer. His "I'm A Believer" was used by Music/TheMonkees. He had some hit singles of his own in the '60s, including "Cherry Cherry", "Red, Red Wine", "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show", "Sweet Caroline", and "Holly Holy".

* Music/TheDillards. Released their first album in 1963.

* Music/{{Donovan}}. Debuted in 1965.

* Music/TheDoors. Formed in 1965, debut album in 1967.

* Music/BobDylan. Debut album in 1962.
** 1962 - ''[[Music/BobDylanAlbum Bob Dylan]]''

* Music/{{Faces}}. Formed in 1969.
* Music/FairportConvention: Seminal FolkRock band, still around but enjoyed their greatest success at the end of the 1960s

* Music/MarianneFaithfull. First hit in 1964.
* Music/AgnethaFaltskog released two solo Swedish-language albums in 1968 and 1969, having her first Swedish number-one single in 1967.

* Music/FleetwoodMac. Formed in 1967.
* Music/ShelbyFlint. First recordings in 1958; released debut album in 1961.

* Music/ClaudeFrancois. Debuted in 1962.
* Music/ArethaFranklin. Her first recordings were in 1956, but her first professional contract came in 1960.
* Music/FreeBand. Formed in 1968.

* Music/TheFugs. Founded in 1964.

* Music/SergeGainsbourg. Released some of his greatest hits during this decade.
* Music/MarvinGaye. Debut album in 1961.
* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}. Formed in 1967 from a group of Surrey, UK schoolboys. Released one album that was vastly different from their ProgressiveRock sound.

* Music/LesleyGore. The height of her career took place during this decade.

* Music/GrandFunkRailroad. Formed in 1969.
* Music/TheGratefulDead. Formed in 1965.

* Music/WoodyGuthrie. Died in 1967.

* Creator/JohnnyHallyday. Debut album in 1961; first topped the French album charts in 1968.
* Music/HerbieHancock. Debut in 1961.

* Music/GeorgeHarrison. Debut album in 1968.

* The Music/JimiHendrix Experience. Debut album in 1967.

* Music/HermansHermits. Formed in 1963, debut album in 1965.

* Music/TheHollies. Debut album in 1964.

* Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}}. Formed in 1966. Debut album in 1968.

* Music/JeffersonAirplane. Formed in 1965.

* Music/WaylonJennings. Began his long and successful tenure with Creator/RCARecords in 1965; his 1968 album ''Only the Greatest'' was credited with providing the roots for his distinctive style of music.
* Music/JethroTull. Formed in 1967.

* Music/EltonJohn. Debut album in 1969.

* Music/BrianJones. Recorded an album in 1968, but after his sudden death in 1969 it only came out posthumously in 1971.

* Jack Jones was a staple of the easy listening end of the U.S. musical scene during the 1960s; his hits "Wives and Lovers" and "Lollipops and Roses" won a MediaNotes/GrammyAward for Best Vocal Performance, Male in the years they came out.

* Music/SpikeJones. Died in 1965.
* Music/TomJones. Debut album in 1965.

* Music/CaroleKing. Started as a songwriter in 1960 and first hit the charts as a performer in 1962, nearly a decade before she became a household name.
* Music/KingCrimson. Formed in 1968.

* Music/TheKinks. Formed in 1964.

* Music/GladysKnight and the Pips. First album/single released in 1962

* Music/{{Labelle}}. Formed in 1962

* Music/LedZeppelin. Formed in 1968.

* Music/TomLehrer broke through in this decade.

** 1966 - ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'' (re-recording of original 1953 album.)
* Music/LeiberAndStoller: Still writing, and scoring hits from time to time throughout the decade.
* Music/JohnLennon. Released albums in collaboration with Music/YokoOno, starting in 1968.

* Music/JerryLeeLewis. Recording career started in 1956. His career having declined for most of the decade, Lewis returned to prominence in 1968 with new CountryMusic hits.

* Music/GordonLightfoot. Began his recording career in 1962.

* Music/{{Love|Band}}. Released their debut album in 1966.

* Music/TheLovinSpoonful: First album in 1965.

* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. formed in 1964, debut album in 1973.

* Music/HenryMancini. First hit single in 1960.
* Music/ManfredMann. Formed in 1962, and first hit single was 1964.
* Music/BobMarley. Started in 1962.

* Music/JohnMartyn. Released his folk debut, ''London Conversation'' in 1967, would later [[GenreBusting incorporate jazz and dub.]]
* Music/TheMaskedMarauders. Hoax "{{Supergroup}}" created by ''Magazine/RollingStone'' staffers that released an album in 1969.

* John Mayall. Debut album in 1965.

* Music/CurtisMayfield. Debut with The Impressions.
* Music/MC5. Formed in 1964, debut album in 1969.

* Music/SteveMillerBand. Formed in 1966, debut album in 1968.

* Creator/SoledadMiranda. Released numerous Spanish-language pop songs during the 1960s
* Music/JoniMitchell. Debut album in 1968.

* Music/TheMonkees. Formed in 1966.

* Music/TheMoodyBlues. Formed in 1964, debut album in 1965.

* Music/VanMorrison. Started with the band Them in 1964, then began a long and successful solo career in 1967.

* Music/MottTheHoople. Released their debut album in 1969.
* Music/TheMove. Formed in 1965, first hit in 1966.
* Creator/JimNabors. The star of television's ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC'' scored twelve albums on Billboard's album chart, including four from the 1960s alone. Three of his 1960s albums received Gold certification from the RIAA. His rendering of "The Impossible Dream", which he performed in the ''Gomer Pyle'' episode "The Show Must Go On", peaked at No. 30 on Australia's ''Go-Set'' chart in 1968.
* Music/NapoleonXIV. Released his debut single and album in 1966.

* Music/HarryNilsson. Began as a songwriter and demo singer in 1962. Recorded his formal debut album in 1967.
* Music/TheNuttySquirrels. Formed in 1959, continued releasing albums during this decade.
* Music/LauraNyro. Singer-songwriter who had a prominent career in the late '60s and early '70s.

* Music/BabatundeOlatunji. Released his debut album in 1960.

* Music/{{Oliver}}. Released his debut single and album in 1969.
* Music/{{Omega}}. Formed in 1962.
* Music/YokoOno. Released albums in collaboration with Music/JohnLennon, starting in 1968.
* Music/RoyOrbison. Career started in 1956. First full album in 1961. Enjoyed his greatest commercial success between 1961 and 1964.

* Music/DollyParton. Debut album in 1967.

* Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. ''The In Sound From Way Out!'', 1966, thus almost certainly the first synth album.

* Music/EdithPiaf. Career still went strong until her death in 1963.
* Music/PinkFloyd. Formed in 1965.

* Music/{{Poco}}. Formed in 1968, debut album in 1969.
* Music/ColePorter. Died in 1964.
* Music/ElvisPresley. Career and record releases started in 1953/1954. Presley still managed a number of hits in this decade.

* Music/BillyPreston. Released his first album, ''16 Yr. Old Soul'', in 1963, when he was still in high school.
* Music/ThePrettyThings. Formed in 1963, first album in 1965.
** 1968 - ''Music/{{SFSorrow}}''
* Music/CharleyPride. Began his recording career in 1966, and, in Nashville, made history by becoming the first commercially successful African-American country singer. In 1967, his album ''The Country Way'' topped the American country charts; from then until 1981, all but one of his studio albums would register in the top-10 on the country album chart. Similarly, his 1967 recording of "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" became the first in a long string of top-5 country hits he would score, with only two exceptions, until 1983.
* Music/ProcolHarum. Debut album in 1967.

* Music/GerryRafferty. First single as a member of the Fifth Column released in the mid-1960s.
* [[Music/LesRallizesDenudes Les Rallizes Dénudés]]
* Music/OtisRedding. Debut album in 1964.

* Music/{{Renaissance}}. Formed and debuted in 1969.

* Music/JimReeves' career began in 1948. Widely credited with his influence on the Nashville Sound, Reeves continued to chart regularly on both the album and single sectors of the American country charts after his 1964 death in a plane crash. In 1966, his recording of "Distant Drums" was a #1 hit on the UK Singles Chart, and stayed on that chart for 45 weeks; Creator/TheBBC named it the "Song of the Year."
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders. Formed in 1958, continued into the '70s, but most of their hits came in this decade.
* Music/CliffRichard. Recording career started in 1958. Continued topping the British charts to 1964.

* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}. Formed in 1962.

* Music/MiklosRozsa. Composing career started c. 1929, but Rosza created several of his orchestral works in this decade.
* Music/{{Rush|Band}}. Formed in 1968, debut album in 1974.

* Music/PharoahSanders. Released debut record as a bandleader in 1965.

* Music/CarlosSantana
** Music/{{Santana}}

* Music/ScorpionsBand. Formed in 1965, debut album in 1972.
* Music/TheSearchers. Formed in the late 50s, debut single in 1963.
* Music/NeilSedaka. Started out in the Fifties, but continued into the 1960s.
* Music/BobSeger. Started in this decade. His debut album was released in 1969.

* Music/SonnySharrock. Made his debut as a bandleader in 1969.

* Creator/BobbySherman. Released his first single in 1962.

* Music/DmitriShostakovich. Composing career started in 1919, but Shostakovich created several of his orchestral works in this decade.

* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel. The music duo formed in 1957, but had their first major hit in 1965.
** Music/PaulSimon. First solo album released in 1965.

* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone. Formed in 1967.

* Music/TheSmallFaces. Formed in 1965. Debut album in 1966.

* Music/PhilSpector. Had his biggest success as a producer in this decade.

* Music/StatusQuo. Formed in 1962 under the name ''The Spectres''.
* Music/SteeleyeSpan. Formed in 1969.
* Music/{{Steppenwolf}}. Formed in 1967.

* Music/AlStewart. Debut in 1967.

* Music/RodStewart. Debut solo album in 1969.
* Music/StephenStills (first LP with the Au Go-Go Singers in 1964, then achieved much larger fame with Music/BuffaloSpringfield and finally the first Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung album (sans Young yet) in 1969, which was a major hit)
* Music/TheStooges. Formed in 1967. Debut album in 1969.

* Music/BarbraStreisand. Debut album in 1963, first major hit in 1964.

* Music/TheSupremes. Formed in 1959 as The Primettes, renamed TheSupremes in 1961.

* Music/PeterTosh. Debuted in 1962, with The Wailers.
* Music/{{Traffic|Band}}. Debuted in 1967.

* Music/TheTurtles. Debuted in 1965.

* Music/UriahHeep. Formed in 1969. Debut album in 1970.
* Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons. Formed in 1960.

* Music/EdgardVarese. Died in 1965.

* Music/TheVelvetUnderground. Formed in 1965. Debut album in 1967.

* Music/TheWalkerBrothers. Formed in 1964, first major hits in 1965, first broke up in 1968.
* Music/ScottWalker. Became a star with The Walker Brothers in 1965; first four solo albums 1967-1969.
* Music/DionneWarwick, first album released in 1963.

* Music/LawrenceWelk and his Musical Family were a prominent force on the American album charts during the decade; the band leader's television program was in the top-30 between 1964 and 1969.

* Music/TheWho. Formed in 1964.

* Creator/JackWild. Became a TeenIdol in 1968 before releasing his debut single in 1969.

* Tony Williams, a drummer for Music/MilesDavis, worked as a bandleader as well.
** ''Music/{{Emergency}}''. Released in 1969.
* Music/AndyWilliams. Released the bulk of his albums in the 1960s.

* Music/BrianWilson. Released first solo singles in this decade.

* Music/StevieWonder. Debut album in 1962, first hit single in 1963.
* Music/TheWreckingCrewMusic. First formed as Phil Spector's house band in the early 1960s.

* Music/TheYardbirds. Formed in 1963.

* Music/{{Yes}}. Started as Mabel Greer's Toyshop in 1966. Formed in 1968. Debut album in 1969.

* Music/NeilYoung. First solo record in 1968.
* Music/FrankZappa. First recording in 1966, along with his support band "The Mothers of Invention".

* Music/TheZombies: Formed in 1961, first album in 1965.

!! Genres that debuted or were popular in this decade:

* {{Afrobeat}}
* AlternativeRock
* ArenaRock
* BaroquePop
* BossaNova
* BoyBand
* BluesRock
* CountryMusic
* {{Doowop}}
* FolkMusic
* {{Funk}}
* GirlGroup
* GarageRock
* {{Jazz}}
** JazzFusion
* ProgressiveRock
* ProtoPunk
* PsychedelicRock
* RAndB
* {{Reggae}}
* {{Rock}}
* {{Soul}}
* {{Ska}}
* SpaceRock
* SurfRock
* WorldMusic