The changing music scene across the 1960s

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The music scene developed more across the 1960s than any other period in rock'n'roll history.
As the decade started, the music scenes were completely different in the UK and America.
In the UK skiffle groups morphed into beat groups, where the focus was on the band rather than just the lead singer.
by the end of the 1950s, the golden age of rock'n'roll was over. In America the music scene fragmented into a number of new genres. Rock'n'Roll had a new clean-cut teen-idol image with singers such as Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Dance crazed abounded, led by Chubby Checker and the twist. Soul music emerged with the new Motown label and 1950s R&B artists on the Atlantic label reaching a new audience with cross-over hits. Phil Spector brought his wall of sound to the charts.
This all changed with the "British Invasion" in 1964. For the first and only time in rock'n'roll history, British bands dominated the American charts.
In 1966 the music scenes merged again with the arrival of the harder-edged rock bands. In the UK Cream and Jimi Hendrix were leading the charge. America's West Coast produced the Doors Jefferson Airplane and others. On the East Coast Velvet Underground emerged.
Psychedelia arrived in 1967 and new genres quickly followed, prog, jazz-rock fusion, folk rock, country rock and heavy metal. The green shoots of glam rock were forming as the 1960s became the 1970s...

Author of Rock'n'Roll Unravelled, Derek Shelmerdine in conversation with Liverpool historian Frank Carlyle. The Frank Carlyle Show was recorded live on Facebook on 24 April 2023.

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