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1969 (song)

Art and culture

• The space age
• Murder of Sharon Tate

Censorship

• Stonewall incident
• In Denmark (see Sexual revolution in Scandinavia and Danish experiment), a new film censorship law is passed. Film censorship for adults ceases to exist with reference to the principle of freedom of expression. The National Board of Film Censorship must still approve all films publicly shown to children aged under 12 and 16.
• Anti-pornography: Stanley v. Georgia

Film

• The Damned
• Easy Rider
• Midnight Cowboy by John Schlesinger
• Satyricon by Fellini
• Women in Love by Ken Russell
• A Gentle Woman by Robert Bresson
• Salesman by David Maysles, Albert Maysles
• De Sade by Gordon Hessler, Roger Corman
• The Honeymoon Killers
• Nerosubianco by Tinto Brass
• Blind Beast by Yasuzo Masumura
• More by Barbet Schroeder
• The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah

Guilty pleasures

• Kärlekens språk
• Zeta One by Michael Cort
• Kiss Me Monster Jesus Franco
• Femina Ridens
• The Libertine

Visual culture

• Chair, Table and Hat Stand
• Wohnmodell (1969) - Joe Colombo ("Visiona" exhibit by Bayer 1969)
• No-Stop City

Literature

Non-fiction

• The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak
• Cross the Border — Close the Gap by Leslie Fiedler

Fiction

• La Disparition by Georges Perec
• Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
• Naked Came the Stranger by Ashe

Music

• "California Soul"
• Audio editing: recording of Bitches Brew starts

• Versions in reggae
  • Around 1969 Kingston-based reggae producers started to issue singles with instrumental "versions" on the flipside of vocal releases, which were actually the basic riddim tracks. To these "versions" one could add further instrumentation or deejay accompaniment. Within a year the inclusion of instrumental versions on the flipside was common practice among the majority of Jamaica's producers.
• Kool & The Gang
  • In 1969, on the basis of their tight live act, they were signed by Gene Redd's then-new De-Lite Records, and their first record, a funky instrumental called "Kool and The Gang," became a substantial hit.
• Debuts: The Stooges
  • Everything the peace and love vibe of the '60s wasn't the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop's monotone birthday lament, "1969" ("War across the U.S.A. / Another year for me and you / Another year with nothing to do"), pretty much sums up the band's coldly disaffected outlook. --Percy Keegan

Singles

• "River Man" - Nick Drake [1]
• Popcorn (instrumental)
• "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones
• Je t'aime... moi non plus - Serge Gainsbourg
• Going in Circles (song) by The Friends of Distinction
• Iggy and his Stooges - 1969
• James Brown - Give it Up or Turn it Loose [2]
• Wallace Collection - Daydream [3]
• Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto
• Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin - 69 Année érotique[4]
• Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In by Galt MacDermot

Music (albums)

• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young
• Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
• Venus in Cancer by Robbie Basho
• Cloud Nine by The Temptations
• Joy of a Toy by Kevin Ayers
• Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
• In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson
• Kick Out the Jams by The MC5
• Karma by Pharoah Sanders
• Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
• Stooges by The Stooges

Births

• Alain de Botton (b. 1969)
• Dante Tomaselli (1969 - )
• Carl Craig (1969 - )
• Virginie Despentes (1969)
• Spike Jonze (1969 - )
• Lukas Moodysson (1969 - )

Deaths

• Sharon Tate (1943 - 1969)
• Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969)
• Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969)
• Otto Dix (1891 - 1969)
• Josef von Sternberg (1894 - 1969)