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ROCK MUSIC
TIMELINE
1968
- The Beatles, Donovan, Beach Boys singer Mike Love, actress Mia Farrow and others travel to India to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Hard rock becomes more prevalent and leads eventually to the development of the "heavy metal" music genre.
- The rock musical Hair opens on Broadway and spawns a number of hit cover songs from multiple artists, along with a U.S. No. 1 Album for the original Broadway cast.
- Southern soul singer Otis Redding has hit first No. 1 Hit on the U.S. Top 100 following his death in a Dec. 1967 plane crash.
- On TV the final episode of The Monkees airs and the Elvis "68 Comeback Special" is shown on NBC.
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