Rock 'N' Roll's Most Revolutionary Year-- Part 2: 1966 In Case You're Wondering

Continued from August 23, 2016.  Hit the Beatles label below this to view the August 23rd entry.

1966:The year albums like "Pet Sounds," "Blonde On Blonde" and "Revolver" opened our minds and ears to creative possibilities.

Terms such as "best," "most enlightening" or "most important" are all subjective, of course.  But, 50 years down the line, a case can be made that 1966 may have been the most creatively expansive year of all.

That is the year that "rock 'n' roll morphed into "rock," the year that the 45-rpm single yielded to the 33 1/3 long-playing album as the dominant medium for music, and the year that social and political issues became a regular topic of exploration among musicians looking beyond the next hit and aiming to exert a real impact on the world around them.

--RoadDog