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In the mid ‘60s, young, often amateurish musicians started making music that moved away from the tidy 3-minute pop songs that were dominating the charts. Influenced by surf rock and the British Invasion, which paid homage to earlier American blues and R&B, this new wave of musicians started playing music that was more aggressive in delivery and lyrical content. The later ’60s, which was steeped in drug culture, saw the advent of psychedelic rock. Bands blurred the boundaries of musical forms, used more effects, created more complex song structures, and often had surreal or literary-influenced lyrics. Among those groups, The Monkees went from bubble gum pop music to interstellar musical explorations. The height of popularity for both forms of music came in the ‘60s, but the influence is obvious in the following decades.