Ian Leslie

Why the mid-1960s was the golden age of pop music

Luke Meddings describes how the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys, among others, shared their ever more radical musical ideas

George Harrison and John Lennon with Mike Love of the Beach Boys in India in 1968. [Getty Images]

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