The early 1960s boasted a simple yet beautiful rock style. Before elaborate songwriters and composers could evolve the music, it felt brand new and more rudimentary. But that made it charming and, in ...

This jam from The Beatles has been hailed as one of the first heavy metal tunes ever made, but it also has proto-punk elements that can’t be ignored. McCartney himself admitted that the song was ...

Classic Rock might have "come of age" in the '70s, but it was born in the 1960s amidst a swirl of cigarette smoke, social revolution, and the sudden realization that a guitar could sound like a riot.