60s

About the 60s genre

The decade saw rock music splinter into countless directions. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Who pushed electric rock into new territory, while Bob Dylan and the Animals fused folk traditions with rock arrangements. Psychedelic and blues-rock acts like Cream, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jefferson Airplane brought intensity and extended improvisation to the format, influencing decades of vinyl collecting to come. Simultaneously, soul and R&B exploded through Motown Records, which became one of the biggest labels in music history with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and The Jackson Five establishing the blueprint for pop music production and arrangement.

Protest songs and folk music gained massive cultural weight during the 1960s, with pioneers like Joan Baez and the Mamas & the Papas reaching mainstream audiences. The counterculture created unprecedented demand for music across rock, soul, pop, reggae, and blues, with many pressings from this era now highly sought after. Whether you're after early Motown pressings, UK original pressings of the Invasion bands, or the first issues of psychedelic rock albums, the 1960s catalog remains central to serious vinyl collecting.