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Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick was at the forefront of 1960s counterculture, and the Woodstock alumni cites five figures as epitomising the decade.

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Cortez scored the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with his high-energy electronic organ hit "The ...

The Monkees' Micky Dolenz understood that fans weren't falling for who he was as a person, but instead, for a carefully crafter persona.

Here are three albums from the 1960s that sparked controversy due to their highly taboo and provocative subject matter and cover art.

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These amazing lost bands of the 1960s deserve just as much love as the surviving big names of that era today.

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