Modern Popular Music MUH2019 01 October 5 2011 Wednesday Beatles and Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones Early Musical Style of the Beatles Original songs attributed to Lennon McCartney Combined 50s American rock and roll R B and pop Catchy clever lyrics mostly about young love Tightly arranged vocal harmonies Paid attention to and were influenced by contemporaries The British Invasion The Rolling Stones Success of the Beatles leads to huge wave of British musicians coming to the United States None reach the success of The Beatles The Animals House of the Rising Sun 1964 Part of the British Blues revival Formed in 1962 by multi instrumentalist Brian Jones Along with Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman Took their name from Muddy Waters song Rollin Stone 1963 1st single contains Chuck Berry s Come On and Muddy Waters I Wanna Be Loved Presented as raunchy rebellious alternative to The Beatles Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pushed to be a songwriting team like Lennon McCartney Satisfaction 1965 Other British blues revival group included The Who and The Yardbirds The Beatles meet Dylan 1965 Dylan Goes Electric August 1964 Bob Dylan visits the Beatles in NYC Dylan introduces them to marijuana convinces them to write more personal and serious lyrics Beatles repopularize electric rock sound Encourages Dylan to go electric The Byrds inspired by the Beatles record an electric cover of Dylan s Mr Tambourine Man Dylan begins to tire of being the voice of a generation Begins using electric unstruments on Bringing It All Back Home Plays electric set at Newport Folk Festival and is booed Continues electric instrumentation on Highway 61 revisited
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