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The year 1967 was an important year for psychedelic rock, with releases from The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour) Small Faces, "Itchycoo Park", Eric Burdon & The Animals (Winds of Change), The Doors (The Doors, Strange Days), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's), Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Love's Forever Changes, Cream's Disraeli Gears, The Rolling Stones's Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Who's The Who Sell Out and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold As Love).

Events

• January 4 - The Doors release their self-titled debut album.
• January 15 - The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band changed their lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".
• January 16 - The Monkees begin work on their album Headquarters recording the track "The Girl I Knew Somewhere." It is the first album where they had complete artistic and technical control over their material.
• January 22 - Simon and Garfunkel give live concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City. While bits and pieces of this concert are released on October 4, 1997, on their box set Old Friends, the majority of this concert is not released until July 2002.
• January 30 - The Beatles shoot a promotional film for their forthcoming single "Strawberry Fields Forever" at Knole Park in Sevenoaks

• February 3 - UK record producer Joe Meek murders his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at Holloway, North London.
• February 6 - Micky Dolenz of the Monkees flies into London. On this trip he sees Til Death Us Do Part on British TV and uses the term "Randy Scouse Git" from the programme for the title of The Monkees next single release "Randy Scouse Git", which is based on the programme, as well as Dolenz's visit to Paul McCartney. The British censors force the title to be changed to "Alternate Title" in the UK.
• February 7 - Micky Dolenz meets Paul McCartney at his home in St John's Wood, London and they pose together for the press.
• February 12 - British police raid 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Keith Richards in the early hours of the morning following a tip-off about a party from the tabloid newspaper 'News of the World'; although no arrests are made at the time, Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser are subsequently charged with possession of drugs.
• February 13 - The Beatles new single "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane" is released in the United Kingdom
• February 13- Jefferson Airplane's influential album Surrealistic Pillow is released.
• February 14 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect" at the New York based Atlantic Studios
• February 16 - "Aretha Franklin day" is declared in Detroit, Michigan
• February 17 - Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane is released in the USA
• February 24 - The Bee Gees sign a management contract with Robert Stigwood
• March 3 - Eric Burdon & The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario unless they are paid in advance. The audience of 3000 riots causing $5000 in damages to the auditorium.
• March 11 - A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand. The band premieres their new music videos for the songs "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
• March 12 - The Velvet Underground release their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
• March 25 - The Who perform their first concert in the United States in New York
• March 27 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney are awarded the Ivor Novello award for the song "Michelle," the most performed song in Britain in 1966
• March 30 - The Beatles are photographed with a photographic collage and wax figures from Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of their soon to be released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London.
• March 31 - Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He is taken to the hospital suffering burns to his hands. This guitar-burning act would later become a trademark of Hendrix's performances.
• April 8 - Eurovision Song Contest held in the Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna. The wining song, the United Kingdom's "Puppet on a String" was sung by Sandie Shaw.
• April 13 - The Rolling Stones' Concert in Warsaw.
• May - Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"
• May 1 - Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin in Las Vegas.
• May 2 - In the United States, Capitol Records pulls the plug on the Beach Boys' mysterious Smile project. Brian Wilson, who had taken more than a year to compose and produce the album, could not bring himself to finish it.
• May 12 - Procol Harum's musical career begins with the release of the single "A Whiter Shade of Pale".
• May 12 - Pink Floyd stage the first ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England
• May 12 - The debut album of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced is released in the UK.
• June 1 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. David Bowie releases his self-titled, debut album, 'David Bowie
• June 4 - Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Denny Laine and his Electric String Band, Procul Harum and The Chiffons, perform in a two hour "Sunday Special" at the Saville Theatre in London.
• June 16 - Barbra Streisand performs live concert "A Happening in Central Park" in New York's Central Park.
• June 17 - June 18 - The Monterey International Pop Festival, the world's first large scale outdoor rock music festival. Held in Monterey, California, including rock stars such as the Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Otis and the MG's took the stage at 1:00 am after Jefferson Airplane and brought down the house; 55,000 were at attendance.
• June 19 - During his stay in California on a houseboat in Sausalito, while listening to the Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band LP', Otis Redding is inspired to compose the tune 'Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay'.
• June 25 - The Beatles perform "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World television special, which was the first worldwide television broadcast. Singing backup for the Beatles were a number of artists including Eric Clapton, and members of the Rolling Stones and The Who.
• June 28 - The Supremes perform for the first time as Diana Ross & the Supremes at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Florence Ballard is fired from the group after the first night, and on-hand stand-in Cindy Birdsong permanently takes Ballard's place in the group.
• June 28 - The Monkees fly in to London at the start of their concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley.
• June 29 - Rolling Stones sentenced to jail for drug possession.
• June 30 - July 2 The Monkees three concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley; Lulu also appeared on this tour.
• July 2 - Jeff Beck, John Mayall Bluesbreakers, perform in a two hour "Sunday Special" at the Saville Theatre in London.
• July 3 - Party at the Speakeasy Club for the Monkees on the completion of their concerts in London.
• July 14 - The Bee Gees international debut album, Bee Gees 1st is released which spawns 3 Top 20 singles: New York Mining Disaster 1941, To Love Somebody and Holiday.
• July 18 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience is thrown off a support tour of The Monkees after complaints from the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution. Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler later admitted it was all for outrage publicity.
• Summer - "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco.
• August 4 - The Small Faces release the psychedelic single "Itchycoo Park" reaching #3 in the UK Singles Chart.
• August 14 - The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act becomes law in the United Kingdom, and most offshore radio stations (including Wonderful Radio London) have already closed down. Only Radio Caroline would continue.
• August 20 - Cream fly to the US at the beginning of their concert tour.
• August 23 - The debut album of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced, is released in the US.
• August 27 - The Beatles are informed of manager Brian Epstein's death, while in Bangor, Wales with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They return to London at once.
• September 7 - Eric Burdon marries Angie King
• September 17 - The Doors appear on the Ed Sullivan show and perform "Light My Fire". Sullivan had requested that the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" be changed for the show. Jim Morrison agreed, but ended up performing it the way it was written and The Doors were banned from the show.
• September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched, replacing the out-of-fashion "Home Service".
• October 14 - Tammi Terrell faints and collapses into duet partner Marvin Gaye's arms onstage during a performance at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and would die from brain cancer in 1970 at the age of 24.
• November 9 - First issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published
• November 22 - Otis Redding records "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"
• December 2 - The Small Faces release hit R&B song "Tin Soldier" it reaches #9 in UK Singles Chart.
• December 5 - The Beatles open the Apple Shop in London.
• December 8 - Otis and the Bar-Kays play at a popular nightclub called, Leo's Casino. This was to be Otis' last performance.
• December 10 - Otis Redding and four of the six Bar-Kays die in a plane crash in Lake Monona (Madison, Wisconsin). It was considered to be one of the worst air tragedies in entertainment history, since the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper air crash, 8 years earlier, in 1959.
• December 26 - First telecast of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, on BBC1.
• A taped appearance by The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. The band premieres their new music video for the song "Hello Goodbye".
• Pickwick Records releases LP collection of ten 1950s A- and B-sides of singles by Simon and Garfunkel, recorded under their pseudonym Tom & Jerry, and tries to pass it off as current material by the duo. Simon and Garfunkel file legal challenge, and the record, now rare, is swiftly withdrawn from the market.
• The Who destroys their instruments during a performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
• Toots & the Maytals releases "54-46 That's My Number", one of the first reggae songs
• The Savonlinna Opera Festival is re-opened in Savonlinna, Finland, helping to launch a repopularization of opera
• December -The Moody Blues release Days of Future Passed.

New Bands

• Blue Öyster Cult
• The Stooges
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The First Edition (fronted by Kenny Rogers)
• Chicago
• Genesis

Top albums released in the U.S.A.

Winter

• Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds
• Mellow Yellow - Donovan
• The Doors - The Doors (debut)
• More of The Monkees - The Monkees
• King & Queen - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
• Between the Buttons - The Rolling Stones
• The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland - The Supremes

Spring

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
• Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (debut)
• Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - Bob Dylan
• Up, Up and Away - The Fifth Dimension (debut)
• I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
• The Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead (debut)
• I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
• Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
• The Marvelettes - The Marvelettes
• Headquarters - The Monkees
• 12 Greatest Hits - Patsy Cline
• How Great Thou Art - Elvis Presley
• Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra
• Temptations Live! - The Temptations
• Happy Together - The Turtles
• The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (debut)

Summer

• Joan (album) - Joan Baez
• Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 - The Beach Boys
• Smiley Smile - The Beach Boys
• Bee Gees 1st - The Bee Gees
• Big Brother & the Holding Company- Big Brother and the Holding Company (debut)
• The Byrds' Greatest Hits - The Byrds
• Brighten the Corner - Ella Fitzgerald
• Aretha Arrives - Aretha Franklin
• Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (debut)
• Winds of Change - Eric Burdon & the Animals
• Moby Grape - Moby Grape
• Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention
• The Sound of Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett
• The Temptations with a Lot o' Soul - The Temptations
• Little Games - The Yardbirds

Autumn

• Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
• Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
• Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
• It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
• Disraeli Gears - Cream
• A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (Wear Your Love Like Heaven, For Little Ones) - Donovan
• Greatest Hits - Diana Ross and The Supremes
• Strange Days - The Doors
• John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
• The Magic Garden - The Fifth Dimension
• United - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
• Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
• Branded Man - Merle Haggard
• Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight and the Pips
• After Bathing At Baxter's Jefferson Airplane
• Forever Changes - Love
• Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. - The Monkees
• Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
• Blowin' Your Mind! - Van Morrison
• Pleasures Of The Harbor - Phil Ochs
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (condensed version) - Pink Floyd
• Clambake (OST) - Elvis Presley
• Procol Harum - Procol Harum
• Their Satanic Majesties Request - Rolling Stones
• Seen in Green - The Seekers
• Silk & Soul - Nina Simone
• The Temptations in a Mellow Mood - The Temptations
• The Who Sell Out - The Who
• Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart

Charting 1968 albums released in 1967 in Britain

• Axis: Bold as Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks
• Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
• Mr. Fantasy - Traffic

Other notable albums

• Sounds Like - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
• Insight Out - The Association
• Reach Out - Burt Bacharach
• Casino Royale (1967 film) (soundtrack) - Burt Bacharach
• Juicy - Willie Bobo
• David Bowie - David Bowie (debut)
• Gorilla - Bonzo Dog Band (debut)
• Winds of Change - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• Slow Drag - Donald Byrd
• Live! at the Village Vanguard Again - John Coltrane
• Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter - Johnny Cash & June Carter
• Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 - Johnny Cash
• This Is My Song - Ray Conniff
• Ludo - Ivor Cutler Trio
• Sorcerer - Miles Davis
• Nefertiti - Miles Davis
• Sammy Davis, Jr. Sings the Complete 'Dr. Doolittle' - Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Super Blues - Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter
• The Super Super Blues Band - Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf
• A Drop of the Hard Stuff - The Dubliners
• More of the Hard Stuff - The Dubliners
• And His Mother Called Him Bill - Duke Ellington
• Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
• Whisper Not - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur - Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
• Tim Hardin 2 - Tim Hardin
• Evil - Howlin' Wolf
• Víctor Jara - Víctor Jara
• Wave - Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King
• Blues Is King - B. B. King
• The Way I Feel - Gordon Lightfoot
• Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast - Julie London
• With Body & Soul - Julie London
• West Side Soul - Magic Sam
• Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
• Deliver - The Mamas and the Papas
• Crusade - John Mayall
• Canciones Folklóricas de América - Víctor Jara
• A Hard Road - John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
• The Beat of Brazil - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
• A Day in the Life - Wes Montgomery
• Chelsea Girl - Nico
• The Pandemonium Shadow Show - Harry Nilsson
• The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison (motion picture soundtrack)
• Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson - Roy Orbison
• Cry Softly Lonely One - Roy Orbison
• Double Trouble (OST) - Elvis Presley
• Morning Dew - Tim Rose
• Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
• Schizophrenia - Wayne Shorter
• The World We Knew - Frank Sinatra
• Ten Years After - Ten Years After
• Goodbye and Hello - Tim Buckley
• Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
• The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner
• Cosmic Sounds - The Zodiac
• Jigsaw - The Shadows
• Song Cycle - Van Dyke Parks

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions¹ in the charts of 1967.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Procol Harum	"A Whiter Shade of Pale"	1967		UK 1 - May 1967, Canada 1 - Jun 1967, Holland 1 - Jun 1967, France 1 - May 1972, Germany 1 - Jul 1967, Éire 1 - Jun 1967, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Nov 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Jun 1967, Norway 3 - Jun 1967, Europe 4 of the 1960s, US BB 5 - Jul 1967, RYM 5 of 1967, DDD 6 of 1967, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1967, Italy 10 of 1967, South Africa 19 of 1967, TOTP 36, US BB 38 of 1967, POP 38 of 1967, US CashBox 47 of 1967, Rolling Stone 57, WXPN 60, Scrobulate 62 of oldies, Poland 69 of all time, Belgium 75 of all time, Acclaimed 100, OzNet 131, Germany 144 of the 1960s
2	The Monkees	"I'm a Believer"	1967		UK 1 - Jan 1967, US BB 1 - Dec 1966, Canada 1 - Nov 1966, Holland 1 - Jan 1967, Norway 1 - Jan 1967, Germany 1 - Feb 1967, Éire 1 - Jan 1967, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1967, US BB 2 of 1966, Australia Goset 2 - Jan 1967, South Africa 2 of 1967, POP 2 of 1966, US CashBox 8 of 1967, Australia 9 of 1967, DDD 12 of 1966, RYM 26 of 1966, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1966, OzNet 34, 38 in 2FM list, Scrobulate 49 of 60s, Germany 67 of the 1960s, Italy 85 of 1967, Acclaimed 503
3	The Beatles	"All You Need is Love"	1967		UK 1 - Jul 1967, US BB 1 - Jul 1967, Canada 1 - Jul 1967, Holland 1 - Jul 1967, Norway 1 - Jul 1967, Germany 1 - Aug 1967, Éire 1 - Aug 1967, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Jul 1967, Europe 26 of the 1960s, RYM 26 of 1967, US CashBox 43 of 1967, Scrobulate 50 of classic rock, DDD 52 of 1967, Italy 60 of 1967, Germany 118 of the 1960s, Party 130 of 2007, Rolling Stone 362, WXPN 491, OzNet 869, Acclaimed 1488
4	The Doors	"Light My Fire"	1967		US BB 1 - Jun 1967, France 1 - Jul 1971, Éire 1 - Jun 1991, US CashBox 2 of 1967, Canada 2 - Jun 1967, DDD 2 of 1967, UK 7 - Jun 1991, Europe 9 of the 1960s, US BB 15 of 1967, POP 15 of 1967, Australia Goset 16 - Sep 1967, RYM 19 of 1967, 20 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 23, Scrobulate 24 of classic rock, Holland 25 - Aug 1967, Belgium 31 of all time, Rolling Stone 35, RIAA 52, Poland 65 of all time, Virgin 71, TheQ 137, WXPN 161, OzNet 194
5	The Beatles	"Strawberry Fields Forever"	1967		Canada 1 - Feb 1967, Holland 1 - Feb 1967, Norway 1 - Feb 1967, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jul 1967, Australia Goset 1 - Mar 1967, RYM 1 of 1967, UK 2 - Feb 1967, France 4 - Apr 1976, US BB 8 - Mar 1967, DDD 9 of 1967, 11 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 12, Australia 16 of 1967, Europe 17 of the 1960s, Scrobulate 52 of classic rock, WXPN 75, Rolling Stone 76, OzNet 185, Belgium 235 of all time

Top American hits on record

British number one hits not included above

• "Puppet on a String" - Sandie Shaw
• "Silence Is Golden" - Tremeloes
• "The Last Waltz" - Engelbert Humperdinck
• "Massachusetts" - Bee Gees
• "Baby Now That I've Found You" - The Foundations
• "Let the Heartaches Begin" - Long John Baldry

Other significant singles

• "Good Times" - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• "Try a Little Tenderness" - Otis Redding
• "Pretty Ballerina" - Left Banke
• "Darling Be Home Soon" - Lovin Spoonful
• "On a Carousel" - Hollies
• "When I Was Young" - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• "Pay You Back With Interest" - Hollies
• "To Love Somebody" - Bee Gees
• "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)" - The Mamas & the Papas
• "Dandelion" - Rolling Stones
• "She's a Rainbow" - Rolling Stones
• "People Are Strange" - The Doors
• "Holiday" - Bee Gees
• "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" - Donovan
• "Different Drum" - Linda Ronstadt
• "Monterey" - Eric Burdon & the Animals
• "It's Wonderful" - Young Rascals
• "Soul Finger" - The Bar-Kays
• "Heroes and Villains" - The Beach Boys
• "Baby You're a Rich Man" - The Beatles (B-side to "All You Need Is Love")
• "New York Mining Disaster 1941" - Bee Gees
• "Susan" - The Buckinghams
• "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star"/"My Back Pages" - The Byrds
• "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - Glen Campbell
• "There is a Mountain" - Donovan
• "Friday on My Mind" - The Easybeats
• "7-Rooms of Gloom" - Four Tops
• "Good Times" - Eric Burdon & The Animals
• "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye and