1969 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1969.
Newly formed bands[edit]
- April Wine
- Argent
- Atomic Rooster
- Bang
- Blackfoot
- Bloodrock
- Blue Mountain Eagle
- Blues Creation
- Brownsville Station
- Cactus
- Coven
- Crushed Butler
- Dust
- Elonkorjuu
- Eloy
- Epitaph
- Faces
- Focus
- Gary Moore
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Granicus
- Hawkwind[1]
- High Tide
- Hookfoot
- Humble Pie
- Iron Claw
- Jacula
- Josefus
- Judas Priest
- King Crimson
- Leaf Hound
- Little Free Rock
- May Blitz
- Morly Grey
- Mott the Hoople
- Mountain[2]
- Neon Rose
- November
- Thin Lizzy[3]
- Titanic
- Toe Fat
- Trapeze
- Truth and Janey
- Tucky Buzzard
- UFO[4]
- Uriah Heep
- Wishbone Ash
- ZZ Top
Albums[edit]
- The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
- Blossom Toes - If Only for a Moment
- Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer
- Blue Cheer - Blue Cheer
- Alice Cooper - Pretties for You
- Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls
- Cream - Goodbye
- Deep Purple - Deep Purple
- 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
- Jacula - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum
- James Gang - Yer' Album
- King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
- The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
- Little Free Rock - Little Free Rock
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
- MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
- Morgen - Morgen
- 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
- Leslie West - Mountain
- The Who - Tommy
- Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts
References[edit]
- ^ Borthwick & Moy 2001, p. 57 "Certain elements of psychedelic coding found their way into genres as diverse as soul, funk, proto-metal (the "space rock" of Hawkwind, for instance), folk (Roy Harper, The Flying Burrito Brothers), jazzy rock (Steely Dan's early work), indie, dance genres such as acid house and trance, ambient and commercial chart pop."
- ^ Buckley 2003, p. 702 "Although Mountain will probably be remembered only for the anthemic "Mississippi Queen" and the seemingly endless "Nantucket Sleighride", Felix Papparlardi (bass/keyboards) and Leslie West (guitar/vocals) were the musical fuel of a band that, along with Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, pioneered the bottom heavy sludge that would become heavy metal."
- ^ Weinstein 1994, p. 66 "But until the late 1980s there were almost no black heavy metal musicians (Exceptions such as the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy can be counted on the fingers of one hand.)"
- ^ Buckley 2003, p. 1116 "In the end, UFO are probably best regarded as having brought a touch of class to heavy metal, for having great tunes and a cool logo, and for being so out of it that even "Mad Mickey" Schenker couldn't stand the heat."