This was possibly the first time a pop artist had committed one entire side of an album to a single song, though regarding the song length there was still more space that could have been filled. His 1966 double album “Blonde on Blonde” featured the lengthy track “Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands” which reached 11:22 and occupied the whole of side four. Bob Dylan once claimed that he had imagined someday writing a song that developed like classical music and that might fill an entire album. The notion that songs could be longer than the average three-minute pop song was also setting in. Bands like The Beatles and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention began using the studio not simply for recording songs that would be performed live but for creating songs that were meant to be enjoyed on the album.
But where did it all begin?Īs rock and roll transformed into rock music in the mid-sixties, the recording of music was starting to change. These days, the very long song continues and gets longer as memory storage permits larger files to be stored. The era of the side-long song had begun and carried on for a few years before fading but not going completely out of fashion. In 1970 there was a creative explosion that saw many bands attempting side-long epic songs, stretching over the 18-minute mark.
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