1. Pop, Blues, Rock

3. The Four Seasons Italian-American vocal group from Newark, NJ (Frankie Vali leader singer) Series of n° hits in early 60s: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Rag Doll Aftershocks: have sold 175 m records worldwide! Award-winning musical show based on their lives, called Jersey Boys, opened in 2005.

4. Surf music

5. The Beach Boys Inspired by Chuck Berry Massive hits with the surf music genre, such as Surf City, Surfer Girl, California Girls. Music, shaped by perfectionist Brian Wilson, became increasingly complex and textured 1966 album Pet Sounds, considered a masterpiece that anticipated The Beatles Sergeant Pepper album.

7. Paul Butterfield Blues Band Directly influenced by Chicago blues (Muddy Waters et al. had accompanied Dylan at the infamous Newport performance in 1965. Long extensive improvisations or jams influenced by jazz (cf. Coltrane) and Indian ragas (cf. Ravi Shankar, The Beatles) Check out ‘oriental’ scales on ‘East West’, repeated bass line

9. roots in the blues and rock 'n' roll produced some of the classic rock songs of the period. ‘Fortunate Son’ inspired by the son of former president Dwight Eisenhower, conveys class consciousness and resentment: millionnaires born with a silver spoon in hand wave the flag, and send poorer people off to war.

11. Jimi Hendrix one of the icons and legends of the 60s, due to amazing guitar playing, rooted in the blues, his songwriting, innovative use of technology (the use feedback or the wah wah pedal), and his over- the-top stage antics (also rooted in earlier wild performers like Little Richard).

12. Hendrix cont. Self-taught guitarist from Seattle Washington Influenced by Robert Johnson and BB King. Toured with great rock 'n' roll and soul musicians such as Little Richard and Wilson Pickett Career took off in London, where he amazed the top rock musicians.

13. Jefferson Airplane

14. White Rabbit Written by vocalist Grace Slick when she was with the band Great Society. The music is inspired by Spanish music, especially Ravel's bolero Lyric refers to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland An ode to fantasy, but also to the use of psychedelic “mind-expanding” drugs like LSD, peyote, mescaline and magic mushrooms

15. The Grateful Dead

17. Ron McKernan aka Pigpen

18. The Grateful Dead one of the most famous San Francisco bands live performances could last for three or four hours without a break, one song or instrumental leading into another. Combined down-to-earth blues, soul and rock 'n' roll, with long spaced-out improvisations, which can be heard on their album Live/Dead

19. Aftershocks The Dead would continue to tour from the 70s to the 90s, with some personnel changes, and the were followed by thousands of young Deadheads. Brilliant innovators in sound technology Hippie entrepreneurship: gave music away for free, anticipating later business models Grateful Dead studies existing in academia!

21. Feel Like I’m a-Fixin’ to Die Rag Country Joe & the Fish, influential psychedelic band based in San Francisco This satirical song became famous thanks to Woodstock festival (and film) Recycles an old New Orleans jazz standard, ‘Muskrat Ramble’

22. Merle Haggard

23. Okie from Muskogee The Backlash! Protest about protest. A ‘reactionary’ protest song. Country singer Merle Haggard probably wrote this song tongue in cheek, but expressed the views of the so-called Silent Majority, who didn’t like the hippies and student protesters!