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=How Music Changed In 1965-1973=

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1965 these groups became more studio-oriented and less interested in performance-friendly songs. **Brian Wilson** of the **Beach Boys** had a nervous breakdown while on tour at the beginning of 1965, so he stopped touring and concentrated on working in the studio. **John Lennon** and **Paul McCartney** of the Beatles also became more interested in the production angle, collaborating more with their longtime producer **George Martin.**===== In 1966 **the Beatles** announced that they would no longer tour at all and retired full-time to the recording studio. John was particularly interested in using recording tricks in Beatles songs, and the subject matter of their songs was becoming more and more openly radical. **Brian**, meanwhile, was now working completely with **studio musicians**, often using 25 musicians at a time in what was in effect the first rock-orchestra. He stopped writing songs in the traditional manner, instead "constructing" songs out of recorded bits and pieces (pre-dating **Todd Rundgren's** recent forays into "interactive music" by 25 years).

1967 saw the release of the Beatles' **Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band**, and the Beach Boys' **Smiley Smile**. Sgt. Pepper was a complete and revolutionary album, full of weird effects and songs about drugs. Smiley Smile was also a revolutionary album, full of weird effects and songs about drugs. But it was not a finished album. Brian went through another breakdown, this time caused by LSD, and the album he released wound up a pale imitation of what he had intended to produce. Sgt. Pepper became the anthem for 1967's "Summer of Love;" it was the height of flower power, arty progressive music that seemed to influence the social fabric, and of the youth movement's naive sense that a new age was about to dawn.

=﻿ examples of the music from 1965-1973=

I appreciate that you did get something done for this project, but this isn't your own words. 80-CP