Explore iconic ‘70s female singers who defined a decade. Discover their timeless music, unforgettable voices and lasting ...

“Outlaw Blues” came from Dylan’s 1965 electric ... tribute to Dylan’s music, but with a whiff of self-promotion, too. Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since ...

The same artists who defined the rock genre decades ago continue to dominate its highest honours. Is there space for contemporary acts to break through?

Both Bob Dylan and The Beatles had quite a profound effect on popular culture and music as a whole throughout the 1960s and 1970s ... to hit the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in a ...

And a number of pop giants have been trying their ... on The Beatles’ fifth studio album, 1965’s Help!, Starr’s penchant for country music has been obvious. His everymanish, rough-around ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an ... movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech ...

Charles Ketter, a longstanding presence in the area's acoustic, pop and coffeehouse scene, played a set that included the 1970 single ... a tenor, music educator and community leader, sang ...

“He was filled with stories of the halcyon days of soul music, and to the end had ... of a song and they quickly became a popular local duo. In 1965, after signing with Atlantic Records ...

In 1970, John Lennon wrote, recorded and mixed the song “Instant Karma.” It ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history ... re Sixteen.” In 1965, Petula Clark’s ...

In 1970 David teamed up with his brother Jimmy ... A sadly chastened character fronts this 1965 Temptations classic, written by Smokey Robinson and brilliantly articulated by David Ruffin.

Just as one of the most important decades in the history and evolution of popular music reached its midpoint, the album ...