1950s and 1960s

1950s and 1960s
Without question the two most exciting decades ever in popular music. The 1950s saw the emergence of American Rock and Roll after Doo-Wap / Pop / R&B and Country Music styles. The early American rock n roll artists invaded the UK including ; Elvis Presley / Buddy Holly / Chuck Berry / Bill Haley / Jerry Lee Lewis / Eddie Cochran / Little Richard / Fats Domino / The Everly Brothers / Bo Diddley / Sam Cooke / Carl Perkins / Johnny Cash and Gene Vincent. In response during the latter part of the decade the early UK artists started to appear including ; Tommy Steele / Cliff Richard / Marty Wilde / Adam Faith / Billy Fury and Joe Brown. The 1950s gave way to the 1960s, now widely regarded to be the greatest decade ever for pop music and cultural change. The 1960s produced British Invasion / Motown / R&B / Surf & Psychedelic Rock / Roots & Hard Rock / Accapella and Folk & Protest musical genres. The countless major artists include ; The Beatles / Rolling Stones / The Who / Kinks / Animals / Moody Blues / Dusty Springfield / Manfred Mann / Jimi Hendrix / Bob Dylan / Beach Boys / The Doors / Grateful Dead / Janis Joplin / CCR / Roy Orbison / The Monkees / Supremes / Marvin Gaye / Otis Redding / Four Tops / Cream / The Yardbirds / Stevie Wonder / Simon & Garfunkel / The Byrds and many more ....

Taj Mahal

Temperance Seven

Temptations

The Breakaways

The Cherokees

The Cheynes

The Creation

The Crickets

The Guess Who

The Herd

The Idle Race

The In Crowd

The Journeymen

The Kingston Trio

The Ladybirds

The Limeliters

The Mark Four

The Nice

The Notions

The Plebs

The Rattles

The Rebounds

The Settlers

The Silkie

The Spectrum

The Springfields

The Stargazers

The Symbols

The Symbols

The Teddy Bears

The Toys

The Turtles

The Uglys & Steve Gibbons

The Untamed

The Velours

The Vipers

The Who

The Writ-Jonathan King

Them

Thunderclap Newman

Tim Rose

Time Box

Timi Yuro

TNT

Toggery 5

Tom Jones

Tom Paxton

Tommy Bruce

Tommy Quickly

Tommy Steele

Tony Jackson & The Vibrations

Tony Lane & The Deltones

Tony Meehan

Tony Rivers & The Castaways

Tony Sheridan

Tornados

Traffic

Trini Lopez

Troggs

Twinkle