[Angus]

1960s - The Beatles and the whole Merseybeat era
- the birth of metal (Black Sabbath)
- reggae is introduced to Britain
- the guitar bands predominated

For the first time young people started to develop their own style and culture, and weren't just clones of their parents. The break away from the Establishment, free love, the beginning of sexual equality, the Summer of Love (1967), the variety of genres(from The Beatles to Black Sabbath, from Cream to Desmond Dekker, from Lulu to Georgie Fame, Rolling Stones to Donovan etc), the inspiration for musical innovation and experimentation for all the decades that followed. The 1960s was the decade when British music dominated the world.