folk and R&B

However, 1969 is largely folk and R&B based with the odd jazz flourish every now and again.

another year of great rock and pop music that wrapped the decade of the 1960s up

Music wise 1969 was another year of great rock and pop music that wrapped the decade of the 1960s up.

the big genre novels of 1969, including The Andromeda Strain, Bug Jack Barron, Damnation Alley, The Left Hand of Darkness, Slaughterhouse Five, Ubik and The Warlock

50 Years Ago – Let’s discuss the big genre novels of 1969, including The Andromeda Strain, Bug Jack Barron, Damnation Alley, The Left Hand of Darkness, Slaughterhouse Five, Ubik and The Warlock

that came to be known as heavy metal

In 1969, while hippies pranced about the farm fields of Woodstock, New York with flowers in their hair, Birmingham, England was giving birth to a monstrous new musical genre that came to be known as heavy metal.

that featured hard-bitten, laconic characters in perpetual moral crisis and slow motion death sequences that looked mesmerising on the Big Screen

In 1969, the movie-going public were introduced to a new and controversial genre that featured hard-bitten, laconic characters in perpetual moral crisis and slow motion death sequences that looked mesmerising on the Big Screen.

experimental poetry, design, architecture, graphics, comics and animation

In a background of a widespread welfare, lifestyle changing and disruptive society transformations culminating in 1968, the motley creative unrest is emerging in visual arts and theatre as well as in music, experimental poetry, design, architecture, graphics, comics and animation.