1967 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Other singles
5 Published popular songs
6 Musical theater
7 Musical films
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Awards

10.1 Grammy Awards
10.2 Eurovision Song Contest

Events

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 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.
February 3 - UK record producer Joe Meek, commits suicide by shooting himself in the head
February 12 - British police arrest Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Marianne Faithfull on drug charges.
February 14 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect" at the New York based Atlantic Studios
February 16 - "Aretha Franklin day" is declared in Detroit, Michigan
February 23 - 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"
February 24 - The Bee Gees sign a management contract with Robert Stigwood
March 3 - 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 25 - The Who perform their first concert in the United States in New York
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.
April 13 - 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 Hotel 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 after hearing the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
May 12 - Pink Floyd stages the first ever quadrophonic rock concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England
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 31 - For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London. This later would become a trademark of Hendrix's performances. He is taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands.
June 16-18 - The Monterey International Pop Festival, the first large scale outdoor rock music festival.
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 29 - Rolling Stones members jailed for drug possession
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 27 - The Beatles are informed of manager Brian Epstein's death, while in Bangor, Wales with the Maharishi
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 performed it the way it was written and The Doors were banned from the show.
September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched
December 5 - The Beatles open the Apple Shop in London
December 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash, two days after recording "Dock of the Bay"
December 26 - The Beatles air the Magical Mystery Tour on British TV
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.
The Monkees first appear on television
Toots & the Maytals releases "5446 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
Donny Hathaway's musical career begins
Ted Nugent's musical career begins
George Clinton's musical career begins
Sly & the Family Stone's musical career begins
Blue �yster Cult's musical career begins
Captain Beefheart's musical career begins
Iggy Pop's musical career begins
The Velvet Underground's musical career begins
Creedence Clearwater Revival forms

Albums released

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Between The Buttons - The Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel - Tom & Jerry
The Who Sell Out - The Who
The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison (motion picture soundtrack)
Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
Branded Man - Merle Haggard
Evil - Howlin' Wolf
Blues Is King - B. B. King
Kinkdom - The Kinks
Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
The Marvelettes - The Marvellettes
Crusade - John Mayall
More of the Monkees - The Monkees
The Pandemonium Shadow Show - Harry Nilsson
Pleasures of the Harbor - Phil Ochs
How Great Thou Art - Elvis Presley
Clambake - Elvis Presley
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Morning Dew - Tim Rose
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
Silk and Soul - Nina Simone
With a Lot o' Soul - The Temptations
Ten Years After - Ten Years After
Happy Together - The Turtles
The Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground
Little Games - The Yardbirds

Top hits on record

Winter

"I'm a Believer" - The Monkees
"Tell It Like It Is" - Aaron Neville
"Georgy Girl" - The Seekers
"Kind of a Drag" - The Buckinghams
"Gimme Some Lovin"' - Spencer Davis Group
"Penny Lane" - The Beatles
"Happy Together" - The Turtles
"For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield

Spring

"Bernadette" - The Four Tops
"This Is My Song" - Petula Clark
"Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles
"Something Stupid" - Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra
"Sweet Soul Music" - Arthur Conley
"Respect" - Aretha Franklin
"Somebody to Love" - Jefferson Airplane

Summer

"Little Bit o' Soul" - Music Explosion
"Windy" - The Association
"Can't Take My Eyes off of You" - Frankie Valli
"Up, Up and Away" - The Fifth Dimension
"Light My Fire" - The Doors
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" - Procol Harum
"I Was Made To Love Her" - Stevie Wonder
"All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" - The Monkees
"Baby, I Love You" - Aretha Franklin
"Ode to Billy Joe" - Bobbie Gentry
"The Letter" - The Box Tops
"Funky Broadway" - Wilson Pickett

Autumn

"Never My Love" - The Association
"Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison
"To Sir, with Love" - Lulu
"Natural Woman" - Aretha Franklin
"I Can See for Miles" - The Who
"Daydream Believer" - The Monkees
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
"I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Hello Goodbye" - The Beatles

Other singles

"At The Zoo" - Simon and Garfunkel
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel
"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Fakin' It" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Blues Theme" - Davie Allan & the Arrows ("The Wild Angels" soundtrack)
"Grocer Jack" - Keith West
"More Love" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
"(I Wanna) Testify" - The Parliaments

Published popular songs

"Ain't Got No" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Aquarius" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Blowing Away" w.m. Laura Nyro
"Easy To Be Hard" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Frank Mills" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Good Morning, Starshine" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Hare Krishna" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"I've Gotta Be Me" w.m. Walter Marks
"Let The Sunshine In" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot
"Stony End" w.m. Laura Nyro
"Where Do I Go?" w. Gerome Ragni & James Rado m. Galt MacDermot

Musical theater

The Boy Friend London revival
By Jupiter off-Broadway revival
Curly McDimple Broadway production
Fiddler On The Roof London production
''Oliver London revival
Sweet Charity London production

Musical films

Camelot
Doctor Dolittle
Half A Sixpence
The Happiest Millionaire
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
The Mikado
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Births

January 4 - Benjamine Darvill, Crash Test Dummies
January 9 - Dave Matthews
January 14 - Steve Bowman, Counting Crows
February 20 - Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
March 4 - Evan Dando, Lemonheads
March 7 - Randy Guss, Toad The Wet Sprocket
March 17 - Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins
March 21 - Jonas Berggren, Ace Of Base
March 29 - John Popper, Blues Traveler
May 6 - Mark Bryan, Hootie & The Blowfish
May 23 - Phil Selway, Radiohead
June 7 - Dave Navarro, Jane's Addiction & Red Hot Chili Peppers
June 9 - Dean Felber, Hootie & The Blowfish
July 22 - Pat Badger, Extreme
July 27 - Juliana Hatfield
August 21 - Serj Tankian, System of a Down
September 19 - Ricky Bell, Bell Biv DeVoe
October 2 - Bud Graugh, Sublime
October 10 - Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls
October 27 - Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots
October 30 - Gavin Rossdale, Bush
October 31 - Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne
November 16 - Ronnie DeVoe, Bell Biv DeVoe
December 25 - Jason Thirsk, Pennywise (joins in 1987 until death in 1996)

Deaths

January 3 - Mary Garden, operatic soprano
March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano
August 27 - Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles
October 3 - Woody Guthrie
December 10 - Otis Redding in plane crash