Starting with Bayou Country, including the US number 2 hit " Proud Mary", and continuing with Green River and finally Willy and the Poor Boys, which, during the year, transformed them from an up-and-coming underground act to bona fide rock stars. Having had a single US number 11 hit in 1968 with " Suzie Q", they release not only their second, but also their third and fourth proper studio album in 1969, as well as drawing a total of four top 3 hits from these three albums. Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival cement their success from the previous year. The album was a sequel to last year's At Folsom Prison. Johnny Cash's At San Quentin included his only Top Ten pop hit, " A Boy Named Sue". The album, however, went on to become one of the most important recordings in the early development of punk rock, as did Kick Out The Jams by Detroit protopunkers MC5. The Stooges' eponymous debut, The Stooges, was also released this year to little critical or popular acceptance. Similar albums by The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and The Nice, as well as Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd were also released this year, expanding the range of prog rock and developing it into a full-fledged genre. The album drew upon influences like Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and The Nice to form a sound melding rock and roll with classical influences in long pieces of music. King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King is a pioneering album in the development of progressive rock. The remainder of the album, Man of Words/Man of Music, was too eccentric for mainstream acceptance, though it established a devoted fanbase for Bowie, who would go on to become one of the most popular musicians in the world. The song, the story of an astronaut named Major Tom who goes into space and is entranced by the beauty of seeing Earth from such a great distance and consequently lets himself float off into space, never again to return, was chosen by the BBC as the theme song for the television coverage of the Moon landing. ĭavid Bowie's " Space Oddity" became a huge hit in this year, being released at the time that American astronauts first landed on the Moon. US and UK pop music remained popular worldwide, with few European acts making the charts outside their home countries exceptions included Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, Shocking Blue, Georges Moustaki and Christian Anders. The Isle of Wight Festival saw the return of Bob Dylan to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966. The 1967 musical Hair generated the same-named 1968 album, whose cuts include " Aquarius" and " Let The Sunshine In", " Hair", " Good Morning Starshine", " Easy to Be Hard" (covered, chronologically and respectively, by The 5th Dimension at number 1, The Cowsills at number 2, Oliver at number 3, Three Dog Night at number 4, on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969), and others, and a London Cast album released in April 1969. The Beatles' rooftop concert was the last time the band played together in public. "Black Woodstock", the Harlem Cultural Festival, took place in New York City. One of those who performed was Ravi Shankar, his presence reflecting a growing interest in Indian and other Eastern music Shankar later said that the 1960s "got India wrong". Even more famous than the Altamont concert was the Woodstock festival, which consisted of dozens of the most famous performers in the world at the time, playing together in an atmosphere of peace with nature and love, with many thousands of concert goers it is still one of the largest concerts in the history of the world. In retrospect, some commentators have concluded that the violence signaled the end of the " hippie" movement, which espoused an ethos of free love and peace. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event. Perhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1969. John Lennon rehearses " Give Peace a Chance", 1969.
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