Were the '60's in the '60's ?

I think they were from 1965 to 1975....Beginning with Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and ending with The Bee Gees "Jive Talking"....What do you think ?

Sidenote: I surmise if Jimi Hendrix stayed alive he would've crossed into disco....  

I believe the 60s didn't start till 1963 or so.

This was all a little before my time (I'm in my 30's and I'll leave it like that........), but it's my curious nature to look for the one moment that bubbled the pot over. And then for the one moment when the stove got turned off....and maybe it all came thru in song....I don't know.... 

No, no....  the 60's started and ended earlier than that.

It might actually have started in the 50's, with Chuck Berry, Elvis.... et al.

Jive Talking was definitely 70's Bee Gees, 60's Bee Gees was Words, I started a joke, Got to get a message to you etc. Anything remotely resemblling disco had no place in the 60's.

Edit: Sorry, I think I totally misunderstood this thread

Some say 'The Word' by the Beatles was close....released in December 1965 (just googled it)....but Bob's song was a few months earlier....

It seems harder for me to pinpoint when it all ended than started....and is there an agreed upon event ?

Or maybe the Beatles Shea Stadium Concert in August '65 blew the lid off....I don't know.... 

Maybe it went downhill after Woodstock

I believe the 60's started in 1960 and ended in 1969.

(KRAPARSOV)

hilarious !........I'm thinking December 31st....how about you ?

edited

The more I think about it, the more certain I am it ended with Woodstock. That was the culmination, nowhere else to go. Some people never left the 60's, but the 60's left them.

Or maybe it can be viewed from drug popularity? Like the 60s were pot and LSD. Then it went into the early 70s with heroin. Then disco was all about cocaine? Because you know that music usually revolves around drugs;)

              Long Island Mark is correct about the 3 assasinations, 63, 65, 68. The violence escalated, both home and abroad. Woodstock was in 69. I can't remember Atalmont. The moon landing gave people hope and optimism in 69. The culture ran into the 70's, because people were buying albums like hotcakes in the early 70's. The real 60's had pot, LSD, and Acid. Kent State happened in the early 70's, but it left the impression that nothing change. A lot of mistrust ofthe government. Daniel Elsberg and the Pentagon Papers. The very 1st Earth day, hippies got beat up. Today its a global holiday.Jimmy Hendricks would not have like disco. The Black Panthers were created in the 60's. Let me wake up, I'll have more contributions.

LSD is acid, isn't it, Ronald?

(rooperi)

If we use music as define it (which may be wrong), maybe Sunday morning's (just saw the documentary 'Woodstock' on Saturday) Star-Spangled Banner (?) by Jimi Hendrix ended it all. And your thinking the '50's w/ Elvis and Chuck Berry et al was it's beginning (Beatnik generation being the roots of it ?)  

              Yeah, your right. Wake up Cote. UH, Abby Hoffman and the Chicago 7 caused some riots in 68, at the Democratic Convention. Well I should say the cops caused the riots.

But, there was some classic music in the early '70's....Elton John, David Bowie, etc....that carried over....no ?

             The Grateful Dead was kicking pretty good in the 70's The Eagles was royalty, and a little before the Beatles invation, we had The Beach Boys culture.

yes many consider the early 70's to have a 60's feel

I think music was central to the 60's. The philosophers and poets were (almost) all musicians. But something like Woodstock was more than music, but I'm not sure how to articulate it exactly. It was an EVENT.

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