... swept the country. An incredible 73,000,000 people watched the Beatles first US appearance and their first album; Meet the Beatles quickly rose to the top of the album charts. Although the sixties music side of things was very much dominated by bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles there were still a number of bands that became huge ... ...

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... son. On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was assassinationed. In the early sixties, rock and roll music was on a decline; it in fact began to flatten out'. On the Billboard charts, rock and roll was no longer the mainstream of music. It was shared with country, rhythm and blues, folk music and crooners such as Frank Sinatra. Some began to call ... ...

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