Discover the most popular songs from the 1960s that defined a generation. From The Beatles to Aretha Franklin, these hits shaped music history.

These hit songs from the 1960s definitely swayed you in certain directions when your music taste was forming as a child.

This six-string bass completely changed the way your favorite country and pop songs from the 1960s sounded. Can you hear the difference?

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was allegedly inspired by The Beach Boys’ groundbreaking harmonies and studio techniques on Pet ...

The 1960s: a decade of social upheaval, cultural revolution, and a soundtrack that defined a generation. From the British Invasion to Motown's soulful grooves, the era gifted us with a plethora of ...

1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came back with a ...

Between 1959 and 1964, Midtown Manhattan was the nerve center of the American pop music industry. Inside just a few square blocks near Times Square, the so-called “Brill Building Sound” flourished, ...

Connie Francis, the pop singer known for hit singles like “Pretty Little Baby” and “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” died on Wednesday, July 16. Francis’ publicist, Ron Roberts, announced the musician’s ...

A band in a slump, a demo song nobody wanted, and a new bass player with no experience as an arranger. The result: one of the ...

Motown Records amassed an unparalleled run of number-one hit singles back in the 1960s, but a Marvin Gaye masterpiece still ...

A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits. By Alex Williams Lou Christie, who with his ...

Pop singer Connie Francis has died at 87. The first female singer to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, she was known for her hit single "Who's Sorry Now?" and for singing the theme song and ...