Unbegun book III - the first 25 years

It may well be that someone has already done this better, but this is another page from my "unwritten book" about my life in liturgical music, which was to be titled Amateurs Only Need Apply. I wanted to draw the major lines of world and music history (as I experienced it, of course, therefore in a narrow sense) and developments in the church and in US church music from The Constitution on Sacred Liturgy to twenty-five years forward. 

Clearly, this is a personal point of view! What would you add to the right-hand column? In the book, I might have added a third column tracing the origins of my own songwriting for liturgy, things like:

• 1962-65 - sang in boys choir at St Vincent de Paul School, chant, and 2-3 part motets from St. Gregory and other hymnals.
• 1965-69 sang in seminary choir, masses in English and Latin by John Lee, Noel Goemanne and others. Also, sang "And I Love Him" to the tune of the Lennon/McCartney "And I Love Her" at daily mass.
• 1969 or 70 - first heard and sang "I Am the Bread of Life" at a funeral at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo.
• 1971 - wrote "Psalm 40: Here I Am," published 20 years later by NALR. Also, wrote church lyrics to the Carpenters' song, "Crescent Noon," entitled "Parade."
• c 1980 - wrote "Yours Today" and "Change Our Hearts", met Paul Quinlan at NALR
• 1981 - met Tom Kendzia in Phoenix, directed NPM showcase presentation of "Light of the World"
• 1984 - began recording first album, "You Alone," at NALR studios in Phoenix
• 1985 - met Gary Daigle in class with John Gallen, SJ, at Corpus Christi Center in Phoenix
• ....etc. etc.

But what significant musical discoveries and events do you think belong in the second column? 

         The first 25 years…a bit of a timeline

YEAR	WORLD EVENTS	LITURGY AND MUSIC
1963	John XXIII dies; Paul VI elected; Nov22, JFK assassinated	Dec 8 Sacrosanctum Consilium issued
1964	Beatles on Ed Sullivan; Tonkin Gulf incident	Biblical Hymns and Psalms Lucien Deiss (WLSM)
1965	Sound of Music wins Best Picture Oscar.
1966		FEL's Hymnal for Young Christians
1967	Woodstock, Hair opens on Broadway, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band;  massacre at Son My and My Lai	Sebastian Temple writes "Prayer of St. Francis"
1968	Tet offensive; Civil Rights Act, Chicago Demo. Convention,Martin Luther King and RFK assassinated; Nixon elected
1969		WLSM's Young People's Folk Hymnal
1970	Jesus Christ Superstar is born as  studio rock opera; National Guard kills 4 at Kent State U.	NALR born in Cincinnati; "A Community Mass," by Richard Proulx (GIA)
1971	Godspell opens off Broadway, popularizing “Day by Day;” “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens; Bernstein’s Mass premieres at the Lincoln Center dedication	“I Am the Bread of Life”by Suzanne Toolan, S.M.
1972	Nixon reelected	"Mass of the Bells" Peloquin, GIA;
1973	Watergate; Agnew resigns	Music in Catholic Worship published, Roman Missal promulgated in English
1974	Nixon resigns
1975	Fall of Saigon	Earthen Vessels St Louis Jesuits (NALR); Worship II (GIA)
1976	US Bicentennial celebration; riots in Soweto	Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia, “Gift of Finest Wheat”; National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) is founded
1977	Death of Elvis; Star Wars, the movie, not the SDI;	Glory and Praise Volume 1 released (1977)
1978	Paul VI and John Paul 1 die, John Paul II elected; Sadat, Begin, and Carter reach the Camp David accords	First NPM Convention, Scranton PA; Conry releases Ashes with NALR; Remember Your Love by Dameans (NALR)
1979	USSR invades Afghanistan; Iranian students invade  US embassy in Tehran, take hostages	JM Joncas's On Eagle's Wings (NALR)
1980	Hostage rescue fails; Ronald Reagan elected; John Lennon murdered	With Open Hands by Marty Haugen (PAA)
1981	Attempted assassinations  of President Reagan and Pope John Paul II; AIDS conclusively identified
1982
1983	US invasion of Grenada; Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize	Liturgical Music Today published; Psalms for the Church Year Vol. 1 (Haugen-Haas, GIA)
1984		Mass  of Creation Haugen (GIA)
1985		Order of Christian Initiation (RCIA) official;
1986	Marcos flees Philippines, Aquino becomes president;	Worship [3rd Edition] (GIA)
1987	Les Miserables opens in NY
1988	Iraq uses chemical weapons against Iran; George Bush elected; PanAm 103 destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland	GIA introduces Gather contemporary hymnal