Psychedelic Rock 3: From The Mid-Sixties to Sgt. Peppers

The experimentation went on with the Stones, Kinks, Yardbirds and the Who all trying to one-up each other in the successive releases of late 1965 through to 1967. Songs like the stones “Satisfaction”, “19th Nervous Breakdown”, “Paint It Black” and “Mother’s Little Helper”; The Yardbirds “Shape Of Things and; The Who’s “I Can See For Miles”, “Armenia In The Sky” and “Pictures of Lily”.

Music became more ethereal, abstract, beyond dimension, philosophically aesthetic and more dependent on the conceptual or non-material. Music accompanied by words casting the same spells our ancestors felt when they had their drum circles and chants, the same conjuring goes on.

“Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” is mistaken for being a concept album, it is a very loose concept album at best, but the first truly commercially successful conceptual album goes to either the Who’s for 1967s”The Who Sell Out” album and indeed later the rock opera  1969s “Tommy”.  Or Frank Zappa with “Freak Out” in 1966 and indeed the rest of his catalog for his conceptual continuity.