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The year 1966 was an incredible year for rock and pop. Motown was in full swing, the British Invasion had staked a claim in the U.S. and psychedelic culture was spreading its tie-died colors across the nation. But all you need to do is listen...to the Supremes, the Stones, the Association, Donovan, the Lovin' Spoonful. Sure, a few songs sound like hangovers from the 1950s -- Sgt. Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets," for one -- but this is the year that ushered in rock's golden era.