Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers struggled to realize in their own lives.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Sixties
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Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and ’70s.
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Khadejha McCall’s Fashion Legacy Is in Limbo
Khadejha McCall was a rising design star in New York before her life changed course.
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Masahiro Shinoda, Leading Light of Japan’s New Wave Cinema, Dies at 94
His films tapped into the fantasies of disgruntled youth by embracing brazen sexuality and countercultural politics. But unlike his peers, he did not shun tradition.
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Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
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Jesse Colin Young, Singer Who Urged Us to ‘Get Together,’ Dies at 83
As the leader of the Youngbloods, he sang one of the enduring anthems of the peace-and-love era. He went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist.
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An Early Bob Dylan Recording Hits the Auction Block
The reel-to-reel tape is from a Gaslight Cafe show in Greenwich Village in 1961, when Dylan was playing to audiences you could count in a glance or two.
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Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96
An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.
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David Edward Byrd, Whose Posters Captured Rock’s Energy, Dies at 83
His designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who and others embodied the spirit of the psychedelic era. He also created images for stage shows like “Godspell.”
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A Sly Stone Primer: 15 Songs (and More) From a Musical Visionary
The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction.
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Bob Dylan’s Draft of Lyrics, Once Tossed in Trash, Sells for $500,000
Two pages of lyrics, written in the kitchen of a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll journalist, offer glimpses into the Nobel Prize-winning musician’s writing process.