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1970 – Top Albums – A New Dawn Beckons….
1970 – A New Decade Like all years at the start of a new decade, there is a tendency to think that events and happenings in the world will be different, that we have finished with the previous bundle and …
1970 – Brave New Decade
1970 – Trees chase Dogs DownUnder 1970 dawns hot and dry with temperatures exceeding 100F in the shade. Drought conditions persevere as trees chase dogs down the broad boulevard of St Kilda Road desperate to quench their thirst, a quest …
1969 – End of the Decade – Best Albums
1969 – Rising Stars, Riots, Roaring Festivals, Peace Marches: Closing down the Fanfare 1969 almost seems an afterthought after the riotous breakneck speed years from 1963 to the end of the decade. New stars have risen (and fallen quickly) feeding …
1969 – End of a Momentous Decade
Into the Light & Darkness The Sixties was certainly a decade of vast change and upheaval. The earlier short back and sides of Rock n’ Roll and the crooners gave way to the irrepressible new beat from Merseyside, the Beatles, …
1968 – Best Albums – Aretha, Jimi, Cream and Janis!!!!
1968 – More and Louder The Summer of Love and Sgt Peppers brokered a new era of musical creation in the Pop and Rock scene spreading into a wonderful colourful explosion in 1968. Album sales continued to boom along with …
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1968 – Jukebox in Black White & Technicolour
Whilst the Summer of Love may have been hard to top, 1968 generated some heat of its own. Without too much effort we have created two Jukeboxes – one with predominantly the newer breed of young white groups starting to …
1968 Street Fighting, Protest & Revolution – Hot Singles
Vietnam – a gloomy shadow Improving on the Summer of Love was always going to be difficult. 1968 proved to be a long and frustrating year. The war in Vietnam was getting worse, more bombing, more fighting, and an increasing …
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1967 – Billboard “Best Record Talent”
Well we have analyzed Rock Pop RnB Soul Blues & Psychedelia from many angles and across three continents in 1967. But there is always one more view or one more unknown hit to make us laugh or cry. Billboard published, …
1967 – Top Psychedelic Albums!!!!
The Psychedelic Era – Brief, Glorious and Colourful The Psychelic Era in 1967 was brief, glorious and colourful. The previous eleven Rockblogster Posts have highlighted albums by bands self-described as “psychedelic”, or by their fans, or critics as having some …