1967 - A day in the life

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"In London in 1967, every Friday night until dawn, shimmering flower children, splashed with day-glo, spotted with marcasite, clad in diaphanous re-vamped negligeés, tarted up Grenadier Guards jackets, in tat and glitter from the markets of Asia and the stalls of Portobello Road, in everything as long as it was beautiful, tripped inside a monstrous basement or queued outside, bedazzling the passing traffic."

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The Pop Year:

• Brian Epstein commits suicide.
• Beatles make 'Magical Mystery Tour'.
• Producer Joe Meek commits suicide.
• BBC bans A Day In The Life.
• Warner - Reprise sign Jimi Hendrix.
• Monterey Pop Festival - Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Otis Redding, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Ravi Shankar, Mamas and Papas.
• The Who issue Under My Thumb/The Last Time in support of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard.
• Jimi Hendrix dropped from Monkees US tour for being too erotic.
• Mothers Of Invention play The Albert Hall.
• The Grateful Dead busted in their San Francisco mansion.
• Otis Redding killed in air crash.
• First 'Be - In' in in San Francisco, with poetry and music by Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Grateful Dead.
• Free concert in Hyde Park addressed by beat poet - hippie Alan Ginsberg
• Radio 1 begins broadcasting. Radios 2,3 and 4 form to split traditional BBC programmes between them.
• Britain's offshore pirate radios forced to close by government.
• Robert Stigwood signs The Bee Gees.
• 'Yesterday' becomes the most covered song of all time with 446 different recordings.
• Sandie Shaw wins Eurovision song contest with Puppet On A String.
• Elvis Presley marries Priscilla.
• The Walker Brothers split.
• Fleetwood Mac debut at The National Jazz and Blues Festival at Windsor.
• Also on the Bill are, John Mayall, Cream, Jeff Beck and Chicken Shack.
• Woody Guthrie dies.
• The move lose all their royalties for Flowers In The Rain, after being sued by Prime Minister harold Wilson.

Singles:

• The Who - Under my Thumb/The Last Time; Pictures Of Lily; I Can See For Miles
• Procul Harem - A Whiter Shade Of Pale; Homburg
• The Beatles - All You Need Is Love; Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane; Hello Goodbye
• The Scaffold - Thank UVery Much
• The Turtles - Happy Together; She'd Rather be With Me
• The Hollies - Carrie anne
• Young Rascals - Groovin'
• Traffic - Paper Sun; Hole In My Shoe
• Pink Floyd - Arnold Lane; See Emily Play
• The Monkees - I'm A Believer; A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You; Alternate Title; Daydream Believer
• The Seekers - Morningtown Ride
• The Move - Night of Fear
• The Four Tops - Bernadette; Standing In The Shadows Of love; Walk Away Renee
• Cat Stevens - Mathew and Son
• Cream - I Feel Free; Strange Brew
• The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset; Autumn Almanack
• Temptations - Losing You
• Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
• Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together
• Petula Clark - This Is My Song
• Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man
• Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston - It Takes Two
• Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs the Red Baron
• The Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats
• Englebert Humperdinck - Release Me; There Goes My Everything; The Last Waltz
• Donovan - Mellow Yellow
• The Seekers - Georgie Girl
• Vince Hill - Edelwiess
• The Supremes - Love Is Here and Now You're Gone; The Happening; Reflections
• Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
• Prince Buster - Al Capone
• Sonny and Cher - The Beat Goes On
• Alan Price Set - Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear/Tickle Me
• Frank and Nancy Sinatra - Something Stupid
• Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String
• Manfred Mann - Ha Ha Said the Clown
• The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow; Flowers In The Rain
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe; Purple Haze; The Wind Cries Mary
• Martha and the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack
• Sam and Dave - Soothe Me; Soul Man
• The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden; Here Comes My Baby
• The Mamas and Papas - Dedicated to the One I Love; Creeque Alley
• Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver lining
• The Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941; Massachusetts; World
• The Beach Boys - Then I Kissed Her
• Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
• P.P Arnold - The First Cut Is The Deepest
• The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central
• Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
• Gladys Knight and the Pips - Take me In Your Arms and Love Me
• Vicki Carr - It Must Be Him
• Aretha Franklin - Respect
• Desmond Dekker and the Aces - 007
• Dave Davies - Death Of A Clown
• Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her
• Otis Redding and Carla Thomas - Tramp
• Amen Corner - Gin House blues
• Mann Singers - Up Up and Away
• Alan Price Set - The House That Jack Built
• The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
• Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera
• The Rolling Stones - We Love You
• The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villians
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
• The Boxtops - The Letter
• Bobbie gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
• The Foundations - Baby Now That Iv'e Found You
• The Herd - From the Underworld
• Long John Baldry - Let the Heartaches Begin
• Eric Burden - San Franciscan Nights
• Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten hold Of My Heart
• Chris Farlowe - Handbags and the Gladrags

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Albums:

• The Monkees - More Of The Monkees
• The Beatles - Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• The Bee Gees - First
• Cream - Fresh Cream; Disraeli Gears
• Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Without Reservations
• The Equals - Unequaled Equals
• Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
• Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced; Axis: Bold As Love
• Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits Or the Layers of the Onion
• Ben E King - Spanish Harlem
• The Kinks - Something Else By...
• David McWilliams - David McWilliams Sings
• Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
• The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons; Their Satanic Majesties Request
• Jimmy Ruffin - The Jimmy Ruffin Way
• Sam and Dave - Hold On I'm Comin'
• Cat Stevens - Cat Stevens
• Temptations - With a Lot Of Soul
• Traffic - Mr Fantasy
• The Tremeloes - Here Come The Tremeloes
• The Troggs - Trogglodynamite
• The Turtles - Happy Together
• Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
• Scott Walker - Scott
• The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
• The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
• Donovan - Universal Soldier; Sunshine Superman
• Four Tops - Live
• John Mayall - A Hard Road
• The Mamas and Papas - Deliver
• Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

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In the news:

• Donald Campbell killed whilst attempting the water speed record on Coniston Water
• Jeremy Thorpe Becomes Liberal party leader
• Six day war in the Middle East - Israel defeats Arabs
• Death of the revolutionary Che Guevara, becomes a martyr and cult figure
• Protesting students demand resignation of LSE head Walter Adams. A porter dies in the fracas
• Keith Richards busted by Drug Squad
• 100 Labour MP's vote to condemn US bombing in Vietnam
• American troops attack Ho Chi Minh trail on Cambodian border
• International Times raided by police
• Students stage sit - in at LSE
• Manufacturers of Thalidimide go on trail in Germany
• The oil tanker 'Torrey Canyon' runs aground off Cornwall. RAF bombs ship to disperse oil
• 400,000 protest outside UN building in New York against Vietnam War
• Military Coup In Greece
• Muhammed Ali loses world title by refusing the draft
• First heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christian Barnard
• Artificial Molecule created in Standord University California by Dr Arthur Cronberg
• Mick Jagger and Keith Richards jailed on drugs charges. Times prints Its famous 'Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel' editorial (by William Rees Mog). Later Mick Jagger released on appeal.
• Brian Jones arrested for possessing drugs. Put on probation
• Biafra claims independence from Nigeria
• Race riots in Boston and Newark
• 'Release' founded to provide legal aid for drug busts
• Legalise pot rally in Hyde Park - pro cannabis advertisement, signed by celebrities, placed in Times
• Homosexuality legalised in Britain
• Hippies form the Festival of the Flower Children at Woburn Abbey
• 'Death of Hippie' ceremony in Haight - Ashbury
• Founding of 'Yippies' - Youth International Party
• Pound devalued in Britain
• Anti - Draft demonstrations in New York
• Concorde built in Anglo - French project

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T.V:

• The Prisoner
• The Forsyte saga
• At Last The 1948 Show
• Callan
• Dee Time
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
• The Golden Shot
• Man in a Suitcase
• Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
• Omnibus
• Trumpton
• Not In Front Of The Children

Top Ten

1. Royal Variety
2. Miss World 1967
3. London Palladium
4. Coronation Street
5. Market In Honey lane
6. Eurovision Song Contest
7. Take Your Pick
8. Morecombe and wise
9. Mrs Thursday
10. Dr Finlay's Casebook

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Films:

• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
• Far From The Madding Crowd
• Accident
• The Devil Rides Out
• Point Blank
• Bonnie and Clyde
• In the Heat Of The Night
• The Graduate
• Cool Hand Luke
• The Trip
• The Producers
• I Am Curious Yellow

Books:

• The Liverpool Scene - Henri, McGough and Patten
• The Ghost In The Machine - Arthur Koestler
• The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris
• Why Are We In Vietnam - Norman Mailer
• A Meeting By The River - Christopher Isherwood
• The Pyramid - William Golding
• Washington DC - Gore Vidal

Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin