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Greenwich Village in the 1960s Crowds on the streets of Greenwich Village, New York City, 1963.

Greenwich Village

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Charlie Gillett
(d. 2010) Radio presenter and director, Oval Records and Music, London. Author of The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll; Making Tracks: Atlantic Records and the Growth of a Multi-billion-Dollar...
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Beginning in the early 20th century and especially since the Beat movement of the early 1950s, Greenwich Village had been a mecca for creative radicalsā€”artists, poets, jazz musicians, and guitar-playing folk and blues singersā€”from all over the United States. In coffeehouses such as the Cafe Wha? and Gaslight Cafe on McDougal Street and Gerdeā€™s Folk City at 11 West 4th Street, singers including Fred Neil, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon played for a few dollars...

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