How Rock ‘N’ Roll Revolutionized The 50s & 60s

We will never see anything like the sixties again no matter how badly people want it.

It was a blustery February morning in 1964 when four shaggy haired Englishmen in tailored black suits stepped onto a frostbitten tarmac before a throng of shrieking New York City fans.

The “British Invasion,” as it would come to be known, had officially landed.

In a melodic onslaught of ballads and newfound social liberalism, the “psychedelic sixties” would not only forever transform political activism, but initiate the largest countercultural revolution the world has ever experienced.

Yet as spectacular as it was, the events that spawned and sustained the sixties are often oversimplified. And the drug-fueled soundtrack that weaved it all together is often overlooked—if not entirely forgotten.