The Rest is Noise: the 60s - in pictures

28 Aug 1963, Washington, DC, USA. More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders, clergyman and others addressed the crowd, including Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Photograph: Steve Schapiro/Corbis

American civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968) addresses crowds gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, Washington, DC, 28 August 1963. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in the recording studio, circa 1965. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

1964, England, the Beatles, (l to r): Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crush the so-called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia, August 1968. Photograph: Libor Hajsky/AFP/Getty Images

Frank Zappa, New York, 1967. Photograph: Jerry Schatzberg/CORBIS

The Beatles' film Yellow Submarine, released 1968. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

American soprano and composer Cathy Berberian (1925-1983), photographed circa 1965 Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images

24 December 1968: A student in San Francisco campaigns against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Photograph: Alan Band/Getty Images

Protesters burn a US flag during an Anti-Vietnam war demonstration in Washington, DC. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Composer Terry Riley, circa 1970. Photograph: Ron Scherl/Redferns