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What happened in The year 1967 ?

• The Summer of Love   Psychedelia, flower children, ban the bomb marches, sex, drugs and massive rock concerts,   
• The Beatles released arguably the best album of the sixties Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
•  Brian Epstein died of a drug overdose.
• The Rolling Stones released Their Satanic Majesties Request.
• Scott McKenzie  had a  hit with the hippie anthem "If you're going to San Francisco ( Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…)"

January 1967

• January 1st The Grateful Dead and the Diggers' band, Orkustra, Big Brother and the holding Co. performed at the New Year's Wail /Whale in Panhandle Park. The Hell's Angels thank you party celebrating the bailing out of Chocolate George by the Haight Ashbury community.
• The Human Be-In a gathering of the tribes free concert at the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Included Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Sir Douglas Quintet and The Steve Miller Band among the Artists.
• Roy Orbison took his Big Show Tour to Australia and New Zealand included on the show were The Walker Brothers and The Yardbirds.
• At the Monterey International Pop Festival in California  acts included The Who, The Mamas & the Papas, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Buffalo, Springfield, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ravi Shankar, Otis Redding,  Booker T. & the MG's,  Jefferson Airplane, The Association, The Electric Flag, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Blues Project, and Country Joe & The Fish
• The Doors released their self titled debut album.
• The Rolling Stones appeared on television’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium but refused to join the finale.
• The Doors, Sopwith Camel and the Young Rascals all played the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California.
• In San Francisco at the Cow Palace, the Monkees performed live for the first time in front of a sell out crowd.
• The Monkees television show was aired for the first time in Britain.

February 1967

• February 3rd Joe Meek the British record producer committed suicide after murdering his landlady.
• Canadian conductor Percy Faith died he won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 with “Theme From A Summer Place”.
• Otis Redding appeared at The Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee also featured The Marvelettes, Aaron Neville, James and Bobby Purify and The Drifters.
• Keith Richard’s house was raided by the police looking for drugs.
• Pink Floyd released their first single “Arnold Layne”.
• The Bee Gees signed with Robert Stigwood.
• “Surrealistic Pillow” album was released by Jefferson Airplane.
• The Byrds released  their “Younger Than Yesterday” album.

March 1967

• John Lennon & Paul McCartney were awarded the Ivor Novello award for the song they wrote “Michelle”.
• The Small Faces, Jeff Beck, Roy Orbison and Paul and Barry Ryan began their tour at The ABC in Romford Essex.
• The Stax Revue Tour arrived in the U.K. Artists included Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Arthur Conley, The Mar-Keys, Eddie Floyd and Booker T & M.G’.s. They appeared  in London at the Finsbury Park Astoria and on the 23rd of March they appeared at the Palace Manchester.
• Simon and Garfunkel  appeared at the Royal Albert, Hall, London.
• Fats Domino played for the first time in the U.K. at London's Saville Theatre he was supported by The Bee Gees and Gerry And The Pacemakers.
• American singer Nelson Eddy died.
• At the London Astoria  Jimi Hendrix (on tour with Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers & Engelbert Humperdinck) set fire to his guitar for the first time. He suffered minor burns.

April 1967

• Steve Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group and formed Traffic with Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.
• An array of talented R&B artists signed to the Stax/Volt label descended on Oslo, Norway, in April  and recorded a memorable DVD. Featured artists  included  Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd,  Arthur Conley, The Mar-Keys  and Booker T. & M.G’s.
• Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with “Puppet on a String”.
• The Rolling Stones played a concert for the first time behind the "Iron Curtain" with a performance in Warsaw.
• Johnny Cash, the Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins appeared at the McElroy Auditorium, Iowa.
• Cream, The Troggs, The Move and The Kinks were some of the artists who appeared at The Daily Express Record Star Show at Wembley Empire Pool.  
• The Stax/Volt Revue featuring Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & M.Gs, Arthur Conley, The Mar-Keys and Eddie Floyd appeared at the Odeon, Hammersmith, London.
• Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens and Kiki Dee appeared on the first Dee Time BBC television show.

May 1967

• On Sunday May 7th the Beach Boys won the popular group category at the  NME Poll-Winners Concert staged at the Empire Pool, London. Other artists on the bill included Cream, Spencer Davis Group, Georgie Fame, Paul Jones, The Move, Alan Price, Cliff Richard, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, Cat Stevens, The Troggs and The Tremeloes.
• Procol Harum released their single “Whiter Shade of Pale”.
• The Byrds, The Doors and Buffalo Springfield appeared at the Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset Strip.
• Barbeque ‘67 at Spalding Lincolnshire among the line up that day were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Zoot Money and his Big Roll Band, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Pink Floyd and The Move.
• The BBC banned “A Day in the Life” by the Beatles.
• John Mayall's Bluesbreakers appeared at the Floral Hall in Southport.
• Jimi Hendrix Experience released their first album “Are you Experienced”.

June 1967

• June 1st Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released by the Beatles.
• The same day David Bowie released his self titled first album on Deram Records.
• The Hollies album “Evolution” was released.
• Starting on the 16th of June, a three day outdoor music festival was held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California. Some of the artists who appeared were
• The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Simon and Garfunkel, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Byrds, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin and The Mamas & Papas.
• June 25th An estimated 400 million watched the Beatles on the “Our World” television special. They performed “All You Need Is Love”.
• On the same day the Jimi Hendrix Experience performed a Free Concert at The Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
• Country Joe and the Fish, The Sons of Champlin, Sparrow, The Grass Roots, The Grateful Dead, and The Young Rascals played Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California.
• June 28th Dianna Ross and the Supremes performed for the first time with their new name.
• June 29th  Rolling Stone’s Keith Richards was sentenced to a twelve month jail penalty and Mick Jagger to three months for drug offences. In August on appeal the sentences were quashed.

July 1967

• Herman’s Hermits and The Who began their U.S. Tour.
• John Coltrane the American Jazz Saxophonist died from cancer.
• The album Bee Gee’s 1st was released.
• Some of the artists featured at the Newport Folk Festival were Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, and Tom Paxton.
• Fantasy Fayre & the Magic Music Festival, Devonshire Meadows Raceway, Cal State - Northridge, CA featured Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & The Fish, Iron Butterfly, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat and the Grassroots.

August 1967   

• Donovan, Feetwood Mac, Cream, The Small Faces, and Chicken Shack appeared  at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor, England.
• The Festival of the Flower Children held at Woburn Abbey.  Some of the artists who appeared were The Alan Price Set, The Small Faces, Eric Burdon and the New Animals, Marmalade and the Jeff Beck Group.
• Canned Heat released their self named album.
• 27th August Brian Epstein died of an overdose of the sleep inducing drug Carbatrol. The Beatles were in Wales with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
• August 28th The Hastings Festival of Music some of the artists who appeared  that day were The Kinks, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch and Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band.

September 1967

• The Kinks released their album “Something Else by the Kinks”.
• Captain Beefheart and  his magic band released their groundbreaking “Safe As Milk” album.
• Mickey Hart joined the Grateful Dead as their new drummer.
• September 30th The BBC launched Radio 1 with Tony Blackburn presenting the show. The first record played was the Move “Flowers in the Rain”.

October 1967

• Pink Floyd flew  to America to start their first U.S. Tour.
• Pink Floyd and The Youngbloods appeared at the Whisky A Go Go.
• Woody Guthrie folk singer songwriter died.
• Traffic,The Young Rascals, Vanilla Fudge, Art and Tomorrow with Keith West began their ten date tour starting at London's Finsbury Park.
• Cream released their single “Wrapping Paper”.
• The students union at Brunel University organised a “Midnite Rave” at the Lyceum Ballroom, The Strand, London. Some of the artists featured included The Who, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Alan Bown, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Jethro Tull.
• The Hollies released their excellent album “Butterfly”.
• The Who, The Marmalade, The Herd, The Tremeloes and Traffic played a concert at the City Hall, Newcastle.

November 1967

• The American magazine “Rolling Stone” was first published.
• The Moody Blues released their groundbreaking album "Days of Future Passed"
• Cream released Disraeli Gears album.
• Package tour around the UK began, playing two shows a night over sixteen days as part of an all-star bill that included The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Move, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Outer Limits, Amen Corner and the BBC Radio 1 DJ, Pete Drummond.

December 1967

• December 10th  American soul singer Otis Redding died when his chartered plane crashed into Lake Monona in Wisconsin. Four members of his backing group the Bar-Kays also died.
• December the Beatles opened a clothing store in Baker Street, London.
• Apple Music signed it’s first group Grapefruit.
• Jimi Hendrix “Axis Bold as Love” was released.
• Cream released their album Fresh Cream.
• The Steve Miller Blues Band signed with Capitol Records.
• The Doors appeared at The New Haven Arena in Connecticut where Jim Morrison was arrested for obscenity.
• December 26th The BBC broadcasted the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour television special.

Other 1967 music facts

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet disbanded.
• The Zombies split.
• The MoJos disbanded.
• Billy J. Kramer split from the Dakotas.
• Gerry and the Pacemakers disbanded.
• Blues Inc broke up.

Formed in 1967

Genesis formed.

Fairport Convention         

Creedence Clearwater Revival changed their name.           

The Big Thing changed to Chicago Transit Authority and later to Chicago .

The Meters formed in New Orleans.

Flower Pot Men.

Stevie Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason and Chris Wood formed Traffic.

Psychedelic Stooges later the Stooges.

Formed in San Francisco The Electric Flag.

The Farinas change their name to Family.

The Soul Survivors change their name to the Love Affair.

Formed in Holland Shocking Blue.

Grapefruit.

Polka Tulk Blues Company later changed to Earth then changed to Black Sabbath.

Formed in Greece Aphrodite's Child.

Tyrannosaurus Rex later just T Rex.

The Nazz  formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The J. Geils Band.

Blue Cheer.

The Hawks changed to The Band.

Formed in London Foundations.

Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick formed the rock group Jethro Tull.

Honeybus

Spirit formed in Los Angeles.

The New Rhythm & Blues Quartet known as NRBQ.

The Nice.

Formed in Cleveland, Ohio the James Gang.

The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

Spankey and our Gang formed in Chicago.

Kaleidoscope.

Jeff Beck Group formed.

Three Dog Night.

Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen.

Fleetwood Mac.

Barclay James Harvest.

Formed in Wales Blonde on Blonde.

Tomorrow.

Formerly The Ingoes changed to Blossom Toes.

The Strawberry Hill Boys later the Strawbs.

Love Sculpture.

Formed in Germany Tangerine Dream.

Pentangle.

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.

Steppenwolf..

Plastic Penny.

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

Blood, Sweat and Tears formed in New York.

Spooky Tooth.

Sly and the Family Stone.

Formed in New York the Soft White Underbelly then later the Blue Oyster Cult.

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