50 Years Ago?! Albums Released in 1968
50 years later, these albums from 1968 still matter
Host: Margot
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Music 101 is part music/part history lesson with your teacher and host Margot. Every week, Margot highlights a different chapter in music history, bringing you songs you love and the stories behind them. Music 101 explores how music and history both affect one another, while highlighting topics like the Wrecking Crew, banned and censored songs, the Civil Rights Movement, CBGB’s, the Hammond organ in rock — and much more.
50 years later, these albums from 1968 still matter
It’s an instrument that has defied categorization, has influenced The Beatles, defined Prog Rock, and is eerie and beautiful all at once
The music emanating from the Vietnam War era is among the most inspired and civically engaged in American history
Did Lana Del Rey plagiarize Radiohead’s “Creep”? Find a playlist from this week’s show with more examples of songs that you may have heard before
With Earth Day coming up on April 22, the words of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me” resonate. Pictured, social justice advocate, Pete Seeger.
Brian Eno has defied categorization for decades. His early music is the work of an artist at the most cutting edge of sound.
The Hammond organ came on the scene in 1935, and revolutionized keyboard-driven songs
Someone once described the Madchester scene as, “a breeding ground for aggressively marketed mediocrity”
Inside, the music playing during that monumental year.
1968 was a pivotal year for film and television
First, came Boogie Woogie