1966 - No milk today
 

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"When we used to play with Graham Bond there would be four or five hundred people in the audience.As soon as we started gigging with Eric in Cream, there would be four or five hundred people locked out of the gig. I hadn't realised just what a big following Eric Clapton had."

Ginger Baker - From John Mayall Blues Breaker by Richard Newman (Castle 1995)

"..he's pounding and beating his foot, you know, and he's dancing. And when we got through the first session, his face was all white; it looked like he had talcum powder on. I said, "What...what...what's that on your face?" It was dust from the carpet."

producer Rick Hall on the recording of Land Of A Thousand Dances with Wilson Pickett.

From Dancing In The Street by Robert Palmer (BBC books 1996)

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The Pop Year:

• Tamla Motown outsells all other American labels in the singles market.
• The Who move from Brunswick to Reaction.
• Dylan appears at The Albert Hall with The Hawks (Band).
• Dylan retreats to Woodstock after motorcycle accident.
• Pete Quaife leaves The Kinks.
• Denny Lane leaves The Moody Blues.
• Pete Quaife rejoins The Kinks.
• Scott Engel leaves The Walker Brothers and retreats to a monastry.
• NME starts publishing the top 15 albums.
• Beatles play final US tour.
• America reacts against John Lennon's blasphemous 'Beatles are more popular than Jesus' remark. Lennon publicly apologises.
• Steve Stills forms Buffalo Springfield.
• Dave Clark Five make a record twelve appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• Paul Jones is replaced by Mike D'Abo in Manfred Mann.
• Johnny Kidd dies in car crash.
• Grace Slick joins The Jefferson Airplane.
• Joan Baez is jailed for ten days after her arrest at an anti - Vietnam demonstration.
• Jeff Beck leaves The Yardbirds to form new group with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. Jimmy Page becomes new lead guitarist.
• John Lennon meets Yoko Ono.

Singles:

• The Overlanders - Michelle
• Cliff Richard - Wind Me Up
• Crispian St Peters - You Were On My Mind; The Pied Piper
• Hermans Hermits - A Must To Avoid; No Milk Today
• Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Were Made For Walking
• Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
• The Mindbenders - Groovy Kind Of Love
• The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown; Paint It Black; Have You Seen Your mother Baby Standing in The shadows
• Len Barry - Like a Baby
• Otis Redding - My Girl; I Can't Turn You Loose
• Napolean XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha
• The Beach boys - Barbara Ann; Sloop John B; God Only Knows; Good Vibrations
• Lee Dorsey - Get Out Of My Life Woman; Working In A Coal Mine; Holy Cow
• Stevie Wonder - Uptight
• The Walker Brothers - The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Any More
• The Small Faces - Sha La La La Lee; All Or Nothing
• The Hollies - I Can't let Go; Bus Stop; Stop Stop Stop
• The Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things; Over Under Sideways Down
• The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion Sunny Afternoon; Dead End Street
• Lou Christie - Lightning Strikes
• The Who - Substitute; I'm A Boy; Happy Jack
• James Brown - I Got You; It's a Man's Man's World
• Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
• The Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me; When I Come Home; Gimme Some Loving
• Wilson Pickett - 634 - 5789; Land Of A Thousand Dances
• Gene Pitney - Backstage; Nobody Needs Your Love
• Dusty Springfield - Little By Little; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; Going Back
• Cilla Black - Alfie
• Alan Price - I Put A Spell On You; Hi Lili Hi Lo
• Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich - Hold Tight
• Cher - Bang Bang
• Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo; Just Like A Woman; Semi - Detached Suburban Mister James
• Norma Tanega - Walking My Cat Named Dog
• The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream; Summer In The City
• Simon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bound; I am A Rock
• Roy C - Shotgun Wedding
• The Merseys - Sorrow
• The Troggs - Wild Thing; With a Girl Like You; I Can't Control Myself
• The Mamas and Papas - Monday Monday; California Dreamin'
• The Beatles - Paperback Writer; Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine
• Frank Sinatra - Strangers In the Night
• Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 and 35; I Want You
• Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman; Warm and tender love
• The Animals - Don't Bring me Down
• The Byrds - Eight Miles High
• Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High
• The Chiffons - Sweet Talking guy
• The Four Seasons - Opus 17
• Georgie fame - Get Away
• Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds - Out of Time
• Los Bravos - Black Is Black
• Chris Montez - The More I See You
• The Temptations - Aint Too Proud To Beg; Beauty's Only Skin Deep
• Four Tops - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever; Reach out I'll Be There
• Robert Parker - Barefootin'
• Jim Reeves - Distant Drums
• Junior Walker and The All Stars - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
• The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love; You Keep me hanging on
• Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers - Got to Get you into my Life
• The New Vaudeville band - Winchester Cathedral
• The Sandpipers - Guantanamera
• Cat Stevens - I Love My DogThe Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
• Tom Jones - The Green Green Grass Of Home
• Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
• Donovan - Sunshine Superman
• ? and The Mysterions - 96 Tears

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Albums:

• The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
• The Beatles - Revolver
• The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
• Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers - Drivin' Me Wild
• Herb Alpert - Going Places
• Johnny Cash - Everybody loves a Nut
• Petula Clark - I Could'nt Live Without Your Love
• The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn; 5th Dimension
• Spencer Davis Group - Their First LP; 2nd; Autumn 66
• Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
• Cream - Fresh cream
• Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich
• Lee Dorsey - New Lee Dorsey
• Chris Farlowe - 14 Things to Think About
• The Four Tops - Four Tops On Top
• The Kinks - Face To Face
• The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
• The Mamas and Papas - The Mamas and Papas
• John Mayall and the Blues Breakers- Blues Breakers
• Mrs Mills - Come To My Party
• The Monkees - The Monkees
• Otis Redding - Otis Blue
• The Small Faces - The Small Faces
• Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence
• The Temptations - Getting Ready
• The Troggs - From Nowhere
• Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band - Hand Clappin' Foot Stompin' Funky Butt Live
• The Who - A Quick One
• The Walker Brothers - Take It Easy; Portrait
• Cilla Black - Cilla Sings a Rainbow
• The Animals - Most Of The Animals; Animalisms
• Georgie Fame - Sweet Things; Sound Venture
• The Yardbirds - Yardbirds
• Manfred Mann - As Is

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In the news:

• Military coups in Nigeria and Ghana
• American B _52 bomber crashes with atom bomb on board. Bomb id recovered in the sea off

the coast of Spain
• The World Cup is stolen and later recovered in London
• Labour wins the general election
• Oil discovered in the North sea
• Brady and Hindley both jailed for life
• 8000 anti - Vietnam protestors encircle the Pentagon and attempt to levitate it
• 31 arrested in anti - Vietnam protest outside the US embassy in London
• England wins the World Cup
• Race riots continue in US, in New York, Chicago, and Cleveland
• Charles Whitman kills 12 People with a rifle from the tower of Texas University
• Vorster is the new Prime Minister of south Africa
• Civil war in Nigeria
• LSD outlawed in California
• International Times is launched
• The Black Panthers are formed in Oakland
• The Aberfan disaster. In Wales a slag heap collapses and engulfs the village and school
• The spy George Blake escapes from Brixton prison
• Vietcong shells Saigon
• Ronald Reagan elected governer of California
• Rhodesia leaves the Commonwealth
• Cassius Clay joins Black Muslims and becomes Muhammed Ali

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T.V:

• Cathy Come Home
• Till Death Us Do Part
• The Frost Report
• Softly Softly
• The Monkees
• It's a Knockout
• George and the Dragon
• How
• The Baron
• Chronicle

Top Ten

1. Miss World 1966
2. Mrs Thursday
3. A Royal Gala
4. Secombe and Friends
5. The London Palladium Show
6. Coronation Street
7. Double Your Money
8. Take Your Pick
9. The Rat Catchers
10. No Hiding Place

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Films:

• Blow Up
• Modesty Blaise
• Morgan - A Suitable Case For treatment
• Georgy Girl
• A Man For All Seasons
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Good The Bad and The Ugly
• Closly Observed Trains

Books:

• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• The Sun King - Mitford
• Psychedelic Prayers After the Tao Te Ching - Timothy Leary
• The Little Red Book - Chairman Mao

The Beat Poets - Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti