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Heavy metal music before 1970

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This is a timeline documenting the formative events in heavy metal music before 1970.

Contents

1960

  • The Beatles

    • 1962

  • The Rolling Stones

    • 1963

  • The Animals
  • MC5
  • The Pretty Things
  • The Yardbirds

    • 1964

  • The Amboy Dukes
  • The Kinks
  • The Mothers of Invention
  • The Troggs
  • The Who

    • 1965

  • The Doors
  • Jefferson Airplane
  • Pink Floyd
  • Scorpions

    • 1966

  • The Jeff Beck Group
  • Black Widow
  • Blue Cheer
  • Cream
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Iron Butterfly
  • The Move
  • Slade
  • Stray

    • 1967

  • Blue Öyster Cult
  • Budgie
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • The Deviants
  • Elf
  • Genesis
  • The Gun
  • Sammy Hagar
  • Jethro Tull
  • Status Quo
  • Steppenwolf
  • The Stooges
  • T. Rex
  • Vanilla Fudge
  • Santana

    • 1968

  • Alice Cooper
  • Black Sabbath
  • Deep Purple
  • Free
  • Grand Funk Railroad
  • Humble Pie
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Nazareth
  • Rush
  • Sir Lord Baltimore
  • Sweet

    • 1969

  • Aguaturbia
  • Argent
  • Atomic Rooster
  • Bloodrock
  • Coven
  • Crushed Butler
  • Dust
  • Gypsy Sun and Rainbows
  • Hawkwind
  • High Tide
  • Iron Claw
  • Josefus
  • Judas Priest
  • King Crimson
  • Leaf Hound
  • May Blitz
  • Mott the Hoople
  • Mountain
  • Thin Lizzy
  • Tucky Buzzard
  • UFO
  • Uriah Heep
  • Wishbone Ash
  • ZZ Top

    • 1963

  • "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen

    • 1964

  • "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" by The Kinks

    • 1965

  • "My Generation" by The Who

    • 1966

  • "Talk Talk" by The Music Machine
  • "Wild Thing" by The Troggs

    • 1967

  • "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf
  • "Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream

    • 1968

  • "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
  • "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles
  • "The House at Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane
  • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly
  • "Race With the Devil" by The Gun
  • " Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer

    • 1969

  • "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson

    • 1964

  • The Kinks - Kinks

    • 1965

  • The Kinks - Kinda Kinks
  • The Kinks - Kinks-Size
  • The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy
  • The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things
  • The Pretty Things - Get the Picture?
  • The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
  • The Who - My Generation
  • The Yardbirds - For Your Love
  • The Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up

    • 1966

  • Cream - Fresh Cream
  • The Kinks - Face to Face
  • The Who - A Quick One
  • The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer

    • 1967

  • Cream - Disraeli Gears
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
  • The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks
  • The Pretty Things - Emotions
  • Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
  • The Who - The Who Sell Out
  • The Yardbirds - Little Games

    • 1968

  • The Jeff Beck Group - Truth
  • The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
  • Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
  • Blue Cheer - Outsideinside
  • Cream - Wheels of Fire
  • Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
  • Iron Butterfly - Heavy
  • Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  • The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
  • The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
  • Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
  • Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf the Second
  • Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On
  • Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance

    • 1969

  • The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
  • Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer
  • Blue Cheer - Blue Cheer
  • Alice Cooper - Pretties for You
  • Cream - Goodbye
  • Deep Purple - Deep Purple
  • Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn
  • Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa
  • Grand Funk Railroad - On Time
  • Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk
  • High Tide - Sea Shanties
  • Humble Pie - As Safe As Yesterday Is
  • Humble Pie - Town and Country
  • Iron Butterfly - Ball
  • King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
  • The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
  • MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
  • Mott the Hoople - Mott the Hoople
  • Slade - Beginnings
  • Steppenwolf - At Your Birthday Party
  • Steppenwolf - Monster
  • The Stooges - The Stooges
  • Vanilla Fudge - Near the Beginning
  • Vanilla Fudge - Rock & Roll
  • The Who - Tommy

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