The 60s decade was a decade of change. Not only were those changes evident in fashions but world events,music of the 60s, automobiles, toys, and individual self expression as displayed during the largest outdoor rock concert ever performed, Woodstock.
The Prodigious Decade, specially music, began to take shape at the end of the 1950s and was extended and consolidated over the next two decades. It is a melodious, catchy music, with lyrics that sing to free love and also making reference to the need for a better world, but without using coarse words, but rather with a clean and suggestive poetry.
In 1966 the Italians Nicola DiBari, Rita Pavone, Gianni Morandi, Tony Dallara, Doménico Modugno, Gigliota Cinquetti, Raffaella Carrá. Also Argentines Sandro, Leonardo Favio, Palito Ortega, Silvana DiLorenzo, Cinco Latinos, Alberto Cortez; Chileans Los Angeles Negros, Los Galos, Mona Bel; Peruvians Los Pasteles Verdes; Venezuelans Los Terrícolas; Uruguayans Los Iracundos. Among the first from Mexico were César Costa, Enrique Guzmán, Manolo Muñoz, Roberto Jordán, Angélica María, the Apson, the Yakis. But the preferred foreigners were always the North Americans, the Spaniards and the English led by the Beatles.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the evolution of pop music into an art form, and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. Their sound was rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, but they incorporated elements of classical music, traditional pop, and used unconventional and innovative recording techniques. In later years they experimented with a number of musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As they continued to draw influences from a variety of cultural sources, their musical and lyrical sophistication grew, and they came to be seen as embodying the era’s socio-cultural movements.