While the first United States astronauts were exploring the outer world for the first time, the youth were exploring the inner world of sex, drugs, and rock’n' roll. The youth’s unity of sex, drugs, and rock’n’ roll quickly became a coined title during the nineteen sixties. The world of sex and drugs incorporated with music in the 1960’s became the start of the new era called Rock’n’ Roll. Such music bands like the Beatles, The Sonics, and The Doors were topping the billboard charts with their provocative lyrics. The music of the 1960’s changed the youth of America and made America a less conservative society. Rock’n’Roll was not just music it was becoming a new type of culture and a celebration of the youth who were uniting through this music at the time. The new style of music became powerful by how it involved itself into the war, politics, emotions, and the sixties’ movement (Curtis p.127). How did rock’n’roll incorporate itself into the war, politics, and the American society? From all the issues, the world of rock’n’roll started the first rebellious up rise from which the youth separated themselves from conservatives and changed the

“This cat came out in red pants and a green coat and a pink shirt and socks, he had a grin on his face for five minutes…he then hit his guitar a lick and broke two strings. I’d been playing ten years and never broke a string. There he was, two strings dangling he hadn’t done nothing yet…..the high school girls ran up creaming fainting. That was Elvis Presley when he was about nineteen, playing Kiglore, Texas.”

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From the Elvis Presley to Woodstock, rock’n’roll became the biggest cultural impact in the 1960’s. Great bands discussed such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stone have been influential to many great musicians today. There has been negative and positive influences from rock’n’roll. Drug usage, sex, and suicide would be looked down upon by conservative people. However, rock’n’roll brought unity to the American people. Woodstock exemplified this unity despite all the opposing forces of people. Today rock’n’roll is in our everyday culture from clothes to our language.

In the 60’s there needed to be a place where the singers could connect with the youth without the interference of ticket sales. The popular Woodstock Music Art Fair happened to be a three day event where many talented rock’n’roll bands and artists came to play their music free to the public. The starting point of Woodstock was in the year of 1969; it was due to the increasing popularity of rock and blues music (Bindas, Houston 1). Woodstock introduced the new communal spirit to thousands of middle-class young people. For the first time, these young people felt empowered by their numbers and the counterculture was becoming even huger.

Not only had the music emotionally struck teens in the United States., but it reached to teens in England. England for many long years had been an uptight classy society. Most television stations tried to ignore the hype of Rock. However, there were so many rock’n’roll fans and the Beatles hailed from Liverpool, England. Soon there were two stations for Rock’n’Roll alone as the sixties ended. The Beatles soon hit airways and television stations with numerous singles that are famous today, such as “I Want to hold your hand”, “She Loves You”, “Please Please Me”, “I saw Her Standing There”, and many others.

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