Chuck Berry came out of Chess Records in Chicago. Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash all came out of Sun Studios in Memphis. The prime movers in rock and roll came first out of the American South and Midwest. We are so used to thinking of California as a main hub for American music, but that had yet to be established in the time of The Byrds.
While in the States, folk music hero Dylan plugs in his Stratocaster and delivers not one, but two full-scale masterpiece albums in Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, both released in 1965.Īnd seemingly from out of nowhere, the debut album of an American band called The Byrds will make such a splash that the economic and cultural ripples will be felt for decades, in their music, but also in the effect their huge success would have on the marketplace.įrom today’s perspective, understanding the impact The Byrds had on the American market in 1965 requires a good bit of imagination. Signaling a shift from pop to rock, London kids start painting “Clapton Is God” on the walls of the city, so enthralled are they with his guitar playing. bands follow suit as the British Invasion crushes the American market at peak intensity. The Rolling Stones score their first worldwide smash hit with “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” and many more U.K. The Beatles kick off their brilliant middle period with the release of their first adult-oriented album, Rubber Soul. In his book 1965, Andrew Grant Jackson asserts that this is the year that everything changes in rock music and I think he’s onto something.
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