1967 in music
See also:
1966 in music,
other events of 1967,
1968 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music'
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.
- 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.
- 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 posession of drugs.
- February 13 - The Beatles new single "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane" is released in the United States
- 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 U.K.
- 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 - 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 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 rock concert with quadraphonic sound 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 1 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
- June 16-18 - The Monterey International Pop Festival, the world's 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
- November 9 - First issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published
- December 5 - The Beatles open the Apple Shop in London
- December 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash, two days after recording "(Sittin' On) the 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.
- 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
- 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 Öyster Cult's musical career begins
- Captain Beefheart's musical career begins
- Iggy Pop's musical career begins
- The Velvet Underground's first album released
- Creedence Clearwater Revival forms
Albums released
Top hits on record
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Other singles
Published popular music
Classical music
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
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