It was the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival where Bob Dylan went electric and with Mike Bloomfield invented the LEAD GUITAR (for white people) much to the pain of the old school folk crowd and to the joy to those wanting the music to dominate the genre rather than than singalongs about unrequited love.
After meeting up with Bob Dylan and discovering weed after the Newport festival, The Beatles stopped touring and in 1966 (released in 1967) came up with an album and a song that changed everything. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ending with the song A day in the life.
With that the formula was smashed and it was anything goes from then on end presenting a decade of the most creative music in history, which I was lucky enough to come of age in and call my music.
Thank you both… Hear! Hear!
Oh and credit to The Beach Boys who in 1962 invented “a band.” Before them it was always “Individual and…”