260px|thumb|The Doors i 1968. Begivenheder 13. januar – Johnny Cash holder sin berømte koncert i Folsom State Prison i Californien. 6. april – Massiels sang La La La vinder Eurovision Song Contest i London for Spanien Poplight – Eurovision Song Contest .. 7. juli – The Yardbirds giver den sidste optrædning inden bandet bliver opløst. 1. september - Dansktoppen gik i luften for første gange, med Jørn Hjorting som programvært. 7. september – Under navnet The New Yardbirds optræder Led Zeppelin for første gang offentligt i Gladsaxe Teen Club. 14. september – Den amerikanske hippie-musical "Hair" havde premiere på Gladsaxe Teater. 14. september - Sangeren Roy Orbison, mister sine sønner den 10-årige Roy DeWayne Orbison og 6-årige Anthony King Orbison, dør i en brand i deres hjem i Hendersonville, Tennessee. Orbison yngste søn overlever. 15. oktober – The New Yardbirds skifter navn til Led Zeppelin i forbindelse med en koncert i Surrey University, England.

Bands dannet Amon Düül II Black Sabbath (som Earth) Can Deep Purple Fitzwilliam Quartet Free Henry Cow Jacula Led Zeppelin (som The New Yardbirds) Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge (som Brooklyn Bridge) Nazareth Rush Yes Colosseum King Crimson Crosby, Stills & Nash

Bands opløst Buffalo Springfield Cream Freddie and the Dreamers The Righteous Brothers The Seekers The Shangri-Las The Yardbirds (gendannet i 1992) The Zombies (gendannet i 1991) Los Speakers

Årets album Venligst sortere solister på efternavne, musikgrupper på det første bogstav (undtaget det engelske "The" og "A") A – G Joan Baez – Any Day Now The Band – Music from Big Pink The Beach Boys – Friends The Beach Boys – Stack-o-Tracks The Beatles – The Beatles ("The White Album") Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills Blue Cheer – Outsideinside Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison Canned Heat – Boogie With Canned Heat John Coltrane – Cosmic Music John Coltrane – Om Country Joe and the Fish – Together Cream – Wheels of Fire Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – If No-One Sang Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple Dion – Dion Donovan – Donovan in Concert The Doors – Waiting for the Sun The Dubliners – At It Again The Dubliners – Drinkin' and Courtin' The Everly Brothers – Roots Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul The Fugs – Tenderness Junction The Fugs – It Crawled into My Hand, Honest

H – R Herbie Hancock – Speak Like a Child Lee Hazlewood – Love and Other Crimes Keith Jarrett – Life Between the Exit Signs Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation Jethro Tull – This Was The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland Jan Johansson & Radiojazzgruppen – Den korta fristen Jan Johansson – Jazz på ungerska The Kinks – Live at Kelvin Hall The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society Lennart Kjellgren & Gunnel Nilsson – Glada visor från Bialitt The Lovin' Spoonful – Everything Playing Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull The Monkees – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees The Monkees – Head Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Tom Paxton – Morning Again Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

S – Å The Savage Rose - The Savage Rose The Savage Rose - In the Plain Simon & Garfunkel – The Graduate (soundtrack) Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends Nina Simone – 'Nuff Said! Sly and the Family Stone – Dance to the Music Sly and the Family Stone – Life The Small Faces – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake The Small Faces – There Are But Four Small Faces Joe South – Introspect Spirit – The Family That Plays Together Spooky Tooth – It's All About Status Quo – Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf the Second James Taylor – James Taylor Ten Years After – Undead Traffic – Heaven Is In Your Mind Traffic – Traffic The Turtles – The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat The Who – Magic Bus: The Who on Tour Young Flowers – Blomsterpistolen The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Cruising with Ruben & the Jets Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money

Priser og hædersbevisninger Oscar for bedste musik Originalt – John Barry for The Lion in Winter Musical eller adapteret – John Green for Oliver! Oscar for bedste sang Windmills of Your Mind (fra Thomas Crown & Co) – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman Grammy Awards i 1968

Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1968

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