In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.
And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.