Early in the 1960s, artists like Bob Dylan along with bands like The Rolling Stones, and The Velvet Underground emerged onto the American rock and roll scene. These artists brought with them a new style, a new look, and new attitude to the rock and roll world, significantly different from that of early rock artists, although they mirrored many of the same ideals. Ideals such as rebellion, challenging authority, and experimentation. Miller points out this idea along with the fact that everyone was embracing the rock scene as their own by saying, “Around the world in the mid-Sixties, everywhere people were listening to rock and roll, “everything went young – and time seemed to accelerate”” (Miller 241). This statement points out how immensely
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The reason he is so impactful on the 1960s rock and roll scene is because he regularly came into contact with the biggest emerging artists of the time. Artists like The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and The Velvet Underground. Warhol hosted massive parties in New York with them, recorded many of them in his studio, and even supplied many of the substances that helped these artists be so insightful and creative in their music. Substances like pot, opium, speed, booze, and LSD had a major influence on the rock and roll scene of the 1960s. Miller quotes Paul McCartney from an interview with the Beatles several years after their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. When responding to a question regarding their drug use, particularly with LSD, during the production of the album McCartney says, “Sgt. Pepper was a drug album” and when asked if he knew what caused the album, he responded, “drugs. Pot” (Miller 253). This marks a shift in the culture’s attitude towards drugs, and gives one example of how rock and roll culture impacted society in the 1960s. Drugs, artist’s attitudes, public images, and rock and roll’s core ideals of rebellion were all major factors that helped to shape rock and roll culture. In turn, these factors heavily influenced a large part of society to embrace rock and roll’s cultural ideals, an influence that can still be observed and felt in society
The reason he is so impactful on the 1960s rock and roll scene is because he regularly came into contact with the biggest emerging artists of the time. Artists like The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and The Velvet Underground. Warhol hosted massive parties in New York with them, recorded many of them in his studio, and even supplied many of the substances that helped these artists be so insightful and creative in their music. Substances like pot, opium, speed, booze, and LSD had a major influence on the rock and roll scene of the 1960s. Miller quotes Paul McCartney from an interview with the Beatles several years after their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. When responding to a question regarding their drug use, particularly with LSD, during the production of the album McCartney says, “Sgt. Pepper was a drug album” and when asked if he knew what caused the album, he responded, “drugs. Pot” (Miller 253). This marks a shift in the culture’s attitude towards drugs, and gives one example of how rock and roll culture impacted society in the 1960s. Drugs, artist’s attitudes, public images, and rock and roll’s core ideals of rebellion were all major factors that helped to shape rock and roll culture. In turn, these factors heavily influenced a large part of society to embrace rock and roll’s cultural ideals, an influence that can still be observed and felt in society