This song, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, is about the need for love. Written by Paul McCartney when he was 16 and credited to Lennon-McCartney, this song was given to Peter and Gordon ...

The 1960s was a decade of extreme cultural change, and its music captured every bit of the turbulence, hope, rebellion, […] ...

During the 1960s, American music was taken over by artists from the U.K. This era became known as the British Invasion, with U.K. pop and rock artists dominating the American charts. Many of these ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The 1960s marked an unquestionable evolution ...

American bands like Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, and The Black Crowes are built on the foundation of 1960s British rock bands. The punk bands, too. In 1970s New York, the groups emerging from Max’s ...

Popular music from the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones will be weaved in among more traditional classical pieces when the Royal Oak Concert Band performs early next month. The concert is ...

Jeremy Clyde, of the British duo of the 1960s Chard & Jeremy, plays a song to the crowd gathered at Happy Pizza’s Shawnee Room Saturday night in Plymouth. Photo courtesy of Edd ‘Beatledd’ Raineri ...

The 1960s marked an unquestionable evolution—and revolution—in rock music. The British Invasion made its mark in this decade, with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who were inspired by ...

May 13—PLYMOUTH — At the height of the British Invasion of the mid-1960s, Chad and Jeremy were the first of the invaders to appear on the West Coast — even before John, Paul, George and Ringo, The ...

Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1960s using data from the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music encyclopedia via the University of Waterloo. - Michael Ochs Archives // Getty ...