10. 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me 09. The Monkees - I'm A Believer 08. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black 07. Love - 7 And 7 Is 06. Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me 05. The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City 04. The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind 03. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 02. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon 01. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby In North America, Europe and Oceania, the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of popular music as it saw the formation and evolution of rock music. At the beginning of the decade, pop and rock and roll trends of the 1950s continued, yet, the rock and roll of the 50s started to merge into a more international, eclectic variant known as rock music. By the mid part of the decade, 1950s rock and roll in its purest form started to be overtaken by pop rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock and folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The country and folk-influenced style associated to the latter-half of rock mu! sic in the 1960s spawned a generation of popular singer-songwriters who wrote and performed their own work. Towards the latter half of the decade, genres such as Baroque pop, sunshine pop, bubblegum pop, progressive rock and heavy metal started to grow popular, with the latter two finding greater success in the following decade. The 1960s additionally saw the rise in popularity of funk and soul music; rhythm and blues in general remained popular throughout the decade, and this style was commonly
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