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He was probably the most influential song writer of the decade.
One of the first rock artists to inject political and social commentary into his lyrics.
His music was closely associated with the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties.
Between 1962 & 2005 he has recorded 48 albums.
First album: Bob Dylan released in 1962
Last album: In Concert – Brandeis University 1963 was released in 2010.
His music was heavily influenced by early exposure to folk, blues, and country music.
He is credited with being the person who first exposed the Beatles to marijuana.

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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel, which depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861, Chapman and Hallpublished the novel in three volumes.

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Williams was scheduled to perform at the Municipal Auditorium in Charleston, West Virginia, on Wednesday December 31, 1952. Advance ticket sales totaled US$3,500. That day, because of an ice storm in the Nashville area, Williams could not fly, so he hired a college student, Charles Carr, to drive him to the concerts.[86] Carr called the Charleston auditorium from Knoxville to say that Williams would not arrive on time owing to the ice storm and was ordered to drive Williams to Canton, Ohio, for the New Year's Day concert there.[87]

They arrived at the Andrew Johnson Hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Carr requested a doctor for Williams, as he was feeling the combination of the chloral hydrate and alcohol he had drunk on the way from Montgomery to Knoxville.[88] Dr. P. H. Cardwell injected Williams with two shots of vitamin B12 that also contained a quarter-grain of morphine. Carr and Williams checked out of the hotel; the porters had to carry Williams to the car, as he was coughing and hiccuping.[89] At around midnight on Thursday, January 1, 1953, when they crossed the Tennessee state line and arrived in Bristol, Virginia, Carr stopped at a small all-night restaurant and asked Williams if he wanted to eat. Williams said he did not, and those are believed to be his last words.[90] Carr later drove on until he stopped for fuel at a gas station in Oak Hill, West Virginia, where he realized that Williams was dead, and rigor mortis had already set in. The filling station's owner called the chief of the local police.[91] In Williams' Cadillac, the police found some empty beer cans and unfinished handwritten lyrics.[92]

Dr. Ivan Malinin performed the autopsy at the Tyree Funeral House. Malinin found hemorrhages in the heart and neck and pronounced the cause of death as "insufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart".[93] That evening, when the announcer at Canton announced Williams' death to the gathered crowd, they started laughing, thinking that it was just another excuse. After Hawkshaw Hawkins and other performers started singing "I Saw the Light" as a tribute to Williams, the crowd, now realizing that he was indeed dead, sang along.[83] Malinin also wrote that Williams had been severely beaten and kicked in the groin recently. Also, local magistrate Virgil F. Lyons ordered an inquest into Williams' death concerning the welt that was visible on his head.[94]

His body was transported to Montgomery, Alabama on Friday, January 2, and placed in a silver coffin that was first shown at his mother's boarding house for two days. His funeral took place on Sunday, January 4, at the Montgomery Auditorium, with his coffin placed on the flower-covered stage.[95] An estimated 15,000 to 25,000 people passed by the silver coffin, and the auditorium was filled with 2,750 mourners.[96] His funeral was said to have been far larger than any ever held for any other citizen of Alabama and the largest event ever held in Montgomery.[97][98] Williams' remains are interred at the Oakwood Annex in Montgomery. The president of MGM told Billboard magazine that the company got only about five requests for pictures of Williams during the weeks before his death, but over three hundred afterwards. The local record shops reportedly sold all their Williams records, and customers were asking for all records ever released by Williams.[96]

His final single, released in November 1952 while he was still alive, was titled "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive". "Your Cheatin' Heart" was written and recorded in September 1952 but released in late January 1953 after Williams' death. The song, backed by "Kaw-Liga", was number one on the country charts for six weeks. It provided the title for the 1964 biographical film of the same name, which starred George Hamilton.[99] "Take These Chains From My Heart" was released in April 1953 and went to number 1 on the country charts. "I Won't Be Home No More", released in July, went to number 3, and an overdubbed demo, "Weary Blues From Waitin'", written with Ray Price, went to number 7.

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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year.

It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923),[1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019.[2] New Hampshire also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a coming-of-age story, with the title taken from the poem “Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae”, written by Ernest Dowson.

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One author states that “in the ensuing decades, rock n’ roll demonstrated its persist net power. Rock n’ roll transformed an inchoate sense of disaffection and dissatisfaction into a political and cultural movement.” Through the music that Elvis created came an entirely new generation. It is truly remarkable how Elvis’ music not only reached the youth of the time, but continues generation after generation. Teenagers as well as adults continue to listen to his music as Elvis’musical repertoire came to include ballads, classics, Christmas songs, and religious songs. . Greil Mar-cus describes Presley’s influence on history stating: Because of Elvis’ arrival, because of who he was and what he became, because of his event and what we made of it, the American past, from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, looks different than it would have looked without him. Because of that event, the future has possibilities that would have been oth- erwise foreclosed. Presley’s impact on American culture went far beyond what he ever imagined.
Elvis changed much more than the entertainment industry in the United States as his music set the stage for other musicians in the future. Presley inspired and influenced popular culture, rock n’ roll, cinema, future musicians, and more. Susan Doll believes that “today’s generation automatically perceives music of the 1960’s to be the model they return to for inspiration and influence. They look to art- ists such as Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and James Brown.” However one must remember that Elvis heavily influenced the 1960’s generation and the music that derived out of that time period. The “rhythm, beat, sensuality, and atti- tude of rock n’ roll all began with Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys. That influence can- not be underestimated.” Statements by musical legends acknowledge the role that Elvis played in their music, such as John Lennon, who said: “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” Greil Marcus argues: “Without the astonishing success of Elvis- nearly 500 million copies of his records had been sold by the time he died- rock n’ roll might have been a passing fad.”

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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

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The Beatles English rock music group formed in the late 1950s and disbanded in 1970.
The members were John Lennon, 1940-80, guitar and harmonica; (James) Paul McCartney, 1942-, guitar and piano;
George Harrison, 1943-2001, guitar and sitar; and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), 1940-, drums.
All were born in Liverpool, England the music and lyrics for most of their songs were written by Lennon and McCartney
From 1963 to 1970 the group released 18 record albums all of which were #1 in the UK and US
Fist appearance in America: February 7, 1964
Last appearance as a group: January 30, 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple Corp. Building.
The Beatles dominated rock music in the 1960s, eventually disbanding when they felt their possibilities as a group were exhausted.

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.

Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son",[1] Rogers was born to a Cherokee family in Indian Territory(now part of Oklahoma). As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"),[2] and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.[3]

By the mid-1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was the highest paid of Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.[4]

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Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which involve a client's murder trial. Typically, Mason establishes his client's innocence (rather than a verdict of 'not guilty') by implicating another character, who then confesses.

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The shorter the screwed the better for the boys. Girls were short skirt because is the trend.

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Derived from Navy uniforms, bell-bottoms were the fashion statement for hippies, and a trademark of the sixties era. Worn by Elvis Presley as well as Sonny and Cher, these wide-legged pants became very popular with the younger generations.

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The bigger the afro the better.

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a natural hairstyle for African Americans

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She’s Elvis Presley was a really good singer and everybody loved them and he loved wearing bell bottom jeans.

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A hippie

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The police

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Born: 1935 in Tupelo, MS
Died: 1977 (drug related) in Graceland, TN
In 1960 he is released from the Military as a Sergeant and returns to much fanfare.
Although known best for rock & roll his three Grammy Awards came for gospel songs,
he didn’t write his own songs but his performing covered many genres ie: rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel and R&B.
Elvis is the best selling solo artist In U.S. History.
Elvis charted more songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 than any other artist. (149)
Elvis spent more weeks at the top of the charts than any other artist. (80)
Elvis had the greatest number of consecutive #1 hits. (10)
Elvis is second only to the Beatles in total of #1 hits.

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South African police kill 69 black protestors in the Sharpeville massacre

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Independence from Belgium starts a long civil war in the Congo

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Malayan government declares the state of emergency is over, as the communist forces are defeated

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Often billed as the world’s greatest rock and roll band
they are certainly the most prolific and long lasting group of their generation.
🤬 Jagger, born 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England (Vocals)
Keith Richards, born 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England (Guitar)
Charlie Watts, born 1941 in London, England (Drummer)
Ronnie Woods, born 1947 in Hillingdon, London, England (Guitar)
Above are the current members of the group, others have included.
Brian Jones (’62-’69), 🤬 Taylor (’70-’75), Ian Stewart (briefly in ’62), 🤬 Taylor (briefly in ’62), Tony Chapman (briefly in ’62), Bill Wyman (’62-’93)
The band has released over 90 Top 100 singles and more than forty one albums including compilations.

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Though it's difficult to think of Hollywood without it, the first star appears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 9. The honor goes to Joanne Woodward.