Discover the most popular songs from the 1960s that defined a generation. From The Beatles to Aretha Franklin, these hits shaped music history.

In the latter half of the 1960s, The Beatles were making some of their best music. The band pushed boundaries on their albums and inspired many young artists. They weren’t exactly happy while doing it ...

When it comes to popular music, there is one fact more than any other that is universally agreed upon and that’s that the British-born band The Beatles is rock music’s best ever. Pop stars, innovators ...

Michael Jackson thought these two Beatles songs could go without lyrics, because their melodies were so superb.

The 1960s marked an unquestionable evolution—and revolution—in rock music. The British Invasion made its mark in this decade, with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who were inspired by ...

1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came back with a ...

Taylor Swift recently broke a record long-held by The Beatles, but experts tell Newsweek comparing the musicians is ...

In the 1960s, Motown started a musical revolution that would result in some of the best soul music of all time.

Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1960s using data from the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music encyclopedia via the University of Waterloo. - Michael Ochs Archives // Getty ...