1966: Bob Dylan releases the Blonde on Blonde, rock’s first double album and minds are blown.
1967: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band hits number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first of fifteen weeks.
1975: Lou Reed releases Metal Machine Music, a double album of distortion and guitar feedback. Rolling Stone critics reviewed the album as “the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator” and as displeasing to experience as “a night in a bus terminal”. Today the album considered a forerunner of industrial music.
1979: How we listened to music changed forever when The Sony Walkman debuts in Japan.
2006: The first Hyde Park Calling festival took place in London with Roger Waters & The Who headlining.