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1969 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1969.

Bands formed

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Albums

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January

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Day Artist Album
13 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
17 Iron Butterfly Ball

February

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Day Artist Album
5 Cream Goodbye
MC5 Kick Out the Jams
Vanilla Fudge Near the Beginning

March

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Day Artist Album
Blue Cheer New! Improved!
James Gang Yer' Album
Steppenwolf At Your Birthday Party

May

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Day Artist Album
9 Slade Beginnings
19 The Who Tommy

June

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Day Artist Album
25 Alice Cooper Pretties for You
Deep Purple Deep Purple
The Jeff Beck Group Beck-Ola
Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

July

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Day Artist Album
Blossom Toes If Only for a Moment
Edgar Broughton Band Wasa Wasa
Leslie West Mountain

August

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Day Artist Album
5 The Stooges The Stooges
25 Grand Funk Railroad On Time
Humble Pie As Safe as Yesterday Is

September

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Day Artist Album
Vanilla Fudge Rock & Roll

October

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Day Artist Album
10 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
22 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
High Tide Sea Shanties

November

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Day Artist Album
Humble Pie Town and Country
Little Free Rock Little Free Rock
Mott the Hoople Mott the Hoople
Steppenwolf Monster

December

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Day Artist Album
29 Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk (The Red Album)
Blue Cheer Blue Cheer

References

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  1. ^ Borthwick & Moy 2001, p. 57 "Certain elements of psychedelic coding found their way into genres as diverse as soul, funk, proto-metal (the "space rock" of Hawkwind, for instance), folk (Roy Harper, The Flying Burrito Brothers), jazzy rock (Steely Dan's early work), indie, dance genres such as acid house and trance, ambient and commercial chart pop."
  2. ^ Buckley 2003, p. 702 "Although Mountain will probably be remembered only for the anthemic "Mississippi Queen" and the seemingly endless "Nantucket Sleighride", Felix Papparlardi (bass/keyboards) and Leslie West (guitar/vocals) were the musical fuel of a band that, along with Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, pioneered the bottom heavy sludge that would become heavy metal."
  3. ^ Weinstein 1994, p. 66 "But until the late 1980s there were almost no black heavy metal musicians (Exceptions such as the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy can be counted on the fingers of one hand.)"
  4. ^ Buckley 2003, p. 1116 "In the end, UFO are probably best regarded as having brought a touch of class to heavy metal, for having great tunes and a cool logo, and for being so out of it that even "Mad Mickey" Schenker couldn't stand the heat."