New Year, New Almanac. Our last effort got a bit buried in the end-of-year lists and general Bowie anniversary activity. So a rebooted Almanac is picking up its run of mix-sixties years. For those new to this series it’s an opportunity to muse on gigs you’ve seen, favourite or otherwise tracks, films, sport – just about anything and everything postable from the year in question. We kick off as ever with a selection of stories from NME: The Rock and Roll Years, a truly fantastic tome that reprints excerpts.
NME : Hang The Jury!
In a rare venture into serious newspaper editorial, the NME has been prompted into the following statement on the drugs-in-pop-lyrics issue.
Last Saturday, seven minutes were cut from the BBC JUKE BOX Jury. The show – pre-recorded the pervious weekend – had including a lengthy discussion on The Game’s recording ‘The Addicted Man’ which the Corporation decided was unsuitable for transmission.
The Game’s disc is concerned with drug taking, and the panel had criticised it mercilessly. Rightly so! BUT IF THE BBC IS GOING TO TURN A COLD HSOULDER TO ALL DRUG-TAKING IMPLICATIONS IN POP MUSIC, IT MIGHT AS WELL SCRUB JBJ IMMEDIATELY.
Directly or indirectly, drugs are playing an increasingly prominent part in pop lyrics – and in last week’s show the BBC had a golden opportunity – in the hands of five acknowledged pop authorities to dismiss this trend as distasteful rubbish. But, they funked the chance….’The Addicted Man’ should never has been released. But the fact that it is now available in shops – even through EMI is belatedly trying to suppress it – makes it a matter of public concern. For this reason, producer Albert Stevenson was wright to include it in the programme, the pity is that the corporation big-wigs throught otherwise.
Donovan has been invited to write music for the British National Theatre production of Shakespare’s As YOu Like It at tha Old Vic, to star Laurence Olivier.
Vietnam Inspires Cliff and Shadwos Movie Drama
The war in Vietnam is the inspiration behind a major film drama featuring Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
As yet untitled, this will be the first dramatic cinema project undertaken by singer and group together, although /cliff did have a (supporting) dramatic ride in his movie debut Serious Charge, eight years ago.
Cliff has said: ‘I particulary wanted to make this war story, I hope it will be a believable production showing how a group of young people can become easily involved in warfare, even though they do not want to be. The movie will not actually be about Vietnam, but it has been inspired by it, and it will proejct a similar situation…Four songs will be featured. It won’t be a musical by any means – and we don’t intend to play p the comedy angle as w e did about the H Bomb in Finders Keepers.
Yardbirds Ballet Staged In Paris
An hour-long ballet written by The Yardbirds and with all music played by the group, is premiered at the Paris Olympia on December 13th and 14th. Still untitled, it is being presented by French impresario Bruno Coquetrix, and the initial performance will be filmed for subsequent TV screening in France and Sweden.
The ballet will be danced by BBC-TV dance team Pan’s People, choreographed by Flick Colby, and the director is Sean Murphy. The Yardbirds will perform the music a vantage point at the side of the stage.
Discussions are taking place with regard to the group recording an LP of the ballet music, primarily for the French market. There are no present plans for the production to be staged elsewhere, although promoters are being sounded out on the possibility of a UK production.
The lead story was part of a quintessential late sixties news staple: the squares being drawn into what to us appear utterly surreal situations as a result of the kids tripping out man. Here’s further Wikipedia on Juke Box Jury in 67:
In January 1967, the Sunday tabloid newspaper News of the World in a series of attacks on the new hippy sub-culture and LSD, castigated David Jacobs in one article for playing the Mothers of Invention single “It Can’t Happen Here” on a Juke Box Jury broadcast in November 1966 as it was ‘recorded on a trip’, and also blamed two of the jury for voting it a hit.[19] The jury on this occasion included Bobby Goldsboro, Susan Maughan and comedian Ted Rogers.
A future Afterword quiz entry surely: find the link between Ted Rogers, David Jacobs and Frank Zappa.
So usual rules: anything and everything from the year in question – any footage of the Yardbirds ballet. I have posted the Game’s somewhat pedestrian single in the comments to kick things off.
moseleymoles says
Not quite a pill-beat mandrax psych monster
Bartleby says
The year that rock and roll came of age, when pop and rock noticeably separated and when the album market started to matter, according to the sleeve notes to Family’s Music from a Doll’s House.
The year starts with The Monkees dominating the US and UK charts – singles (I’m a Believer) and albums, before giving way to Sgt Pepper, then returning at the end with Daydream Believer in the US and the Pisces, Aquarius album both topping the charts. This being a radical year for music and Swinging London in particular, the UK chart was dominated for the final 2.5 months of the year by the soundtrack to The Sound of Music.
Dave Ross says
Mickey Dolenz has been posting 50th anniversary stuff on his Facebook page. It’s been a fascinating chronological insight onto what The Monkees meant all those years ago. I have really learned to adore them almost beyond any other band. The variety and quality is not given the credit it deserves but I don’t care cos I love them to bits
Bartleby says
Have to say, I was surprised at their degree of chart dominance that year.
Rigid Digit says
1967 is the year that Scotland became World Champions after beating World Champions England at Wembley.
Following that logic of deciding World Champions, the current holders are Chile (maybe only until tomorrow in the Final of the China Cup against Iceland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_Football_World_Championships
Rigid Digit says
In the middle of a Table Tapping weekend in Bognor with Surrey Mystic Arthur Sultan, the Rutles manager Leggy Mountbatten – unable to raise any friends – tragically accepts a teaching post in Australia
Rigid Digit says
August 1967 – Brian Epstein dies.
Was this the point when The Beatles world imploded?
Their next major outing (ignoring the single Hello Goodbye) was Boxing Day premiere of Magical Mystery Tour which was met with confusion and disappointment by many fans (the fact that it was shot in colour, but shown in black & white probably didn’t help either)
nickduvet says
I have a vague memory that colour TV didn’t arrive in the UK until 1968. We didn’t get one til the early 70s. On Boxing Day 67 I remember asking if I could leave the dinner table at my grandparents’ house so I could go and watch the Beatles on TV. Pretty sure I was baffled by the storyline but I can clearly remember being affected by the music, Fool On The Hill especially
Johnny Concheroo says
Brian Epstein’s death.
On Sunday 27th August 1967 I had tickets to see Jimi Hendrix at the Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End.
London’s theatres were “dark” on Sundays back then (and maybe still are) giving the actors a day off, so Brian Epstein leased the Saville for regular Sunday night rock concerts.
That night the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Tomorrow (featuring Steve Howe and Keith West) were the support act.
As was often the case back then there were two shows a night: a matinee around 6.30 or 7pm and a later, main show at 8.30. I had tickets for the later show.
As I walked along Shaftesbury Ave I saw an “A” frame sign on the pavement outside the Saville with a hand-written sign reading something like “Due to the death of Mr. Brian Epstein, the 8.30 show tonight has been cancelled” followed by something about refunds.
My first reaction was annoyance at missing Hendrix, it wasn’t until later that the significance of Epstein’s death began to sink in.
Bartleby says
Still bloody annoying. What better way to celebrate his (terrible) passing.
Johnny Concheroo says
The news came through during the early show, it seems. I’ve read that Jimi and the support bands wanted the second show to go ahead, but the Saville management decided to cancel out of respect for Epstein.
Bartleby says
Gotcha. That sounds more like it. Shame. Did you see him often/other times?
Johnny Concheroo says
I must have seen Jimi around 6 or 8 times, starting with an ill-matched package tour at the ABC cinema in Chesterfield in early 1967 with the Walker Bros, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck (!) and ending at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/Afterword/Hendrix.jpg
Bartleby says
Wow. Did you see the BoG lineup? And which was the best/worst/most engaged performance, if you don’t mind me asking?
Johnny Concheroo says
I don’t think the BoG ever played in the UK.
Jimi could be very sloppy, especially as the drugs took over towards the end. The most interesting show was this one with Cream and a new band called, apparently, Pink (Psychedelic) Floyd.
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/Afterword/Barbecue67-LFP-09MAY19671.jpg
But the Saville theatre shows were the best. Jimi was on home turf, there’d sometimes be one or more of the Beatles in the audience and he could relax more. Also, we weren’t conscious of watching a legend at the time, just an amazing new guitarist, so he didn’t have all the baggage he has now.
Bartleby says
Ah yes – of course re BoG. Fascinating anyway!
Bartleby says
A month after your Chesterfieldgig, Hendrix was topping a bill that included Cream, the Floyd and The Move, per a poster I’ve seen from Spalding, Lincs (I’d upload it if it was remotely straightforward)
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s the Spalding show above. I’ve got the poster somewhere, but I’m on my iPad right now.
Colin H says
JC, can you recall if Zoot pulled his trousers down at the Barvecue? It was a big part of his ‘act’ at the time…
Johnny Concheroo says
I’ve got it in my mind that he did Colin, but half a century later I can’t be certain. One thing I do remember is talking to a then-unknown Nick Mason in the car park. He was sitting in the boot of his Ford Zodiac. A car buff even in 1967.
ruff-diamond says
Of these concerts, what percentage do you think Jimi spent tuning his guitar?
Johnny Concheroo says
Good point, he was forever tuning up and talking rambling, stream of consciousness nonsense into the microphone while he was doing it.
It was considered normal to tune up for ages back then. You just don’t see it now.
Unlike today’s guitarists Jimi played his entire set with just one guitar. No electronic tuners then, either.
slotbadger says
I was at the V&A yesterday for the ‘Revolution’ show (much recommended). Here’s the guitar Jimi smashed at the Savile on June 4th 1967 (date inscribed along the top) the night he played ‘Sgt Pepper’ with Paul and George looking on…
Bartleby says
Thanks for the heads up on the exhibition@slotbadger – taking the kids next week (lucky kids eh?)
slotbadger says
@Bartleby – enjoy! Its a great show, if a bit dizzying. Lots for kids to enjoy
John Walters says
Have tickets for mid February. Looking forward to it.
Will probably go to the Pink Floyd exhibition later on this year too.
Bartleby says
Thanks again!
Johnny Concheroo says
Thanks for that @slotbadger. I think I’ve told this story before. Jimi usually smashed his guitar at the end of the show, but one night at the Saville he came on for the encore carrying, not his usual Fender Stratocaster (1967 price, Β£250) which he’d used during the rest of the concert, but a cheaper Fender Mustang “student” model (1967 price, Β£80).
Money must have been tight in the Hendrix camp that week and it was the cheaper guitar which met an untimely end during the encore, while the Strat lived to fight another day.
Twang says
My Mum saw that tour – big Scott Walker fan – she came back and bought a Hendrix compilation on Track.
Bartleby says
Cool. The right way round too!
Mousey says
1967, the greatest year in the history of pop music. Yeah I know, 1971 and all that, maybe we remember a lot more of the albums released that year, but for sheer innovation, shock and awe, 1967 takes it.
It was my first year at secondary school. I was given pocket money of 10/- a week (that’s ten shillings boys and girls, later that year to be renamed a dollar). Singles cost 7/6, EPs 15/- and albums – well I didn’t start buying albums till decimal currency came along, and they were $4.99.
So when my Aunty Hazel gave me a 15/- record token for my birthday in February, it was off to the record shop to buy The Monkees “I’m A Believer” and The Kinks “Dead End Street”. Both of which I still own, and still love.
Colin H says
Great intro, Moley. I’m not a big fan of all that summer of love malarkey myself – it’s like candyfloss: momentarily fascinating but ultimately rather sugary and unsatisfying. However, the prevailing atmosphere in London had an interesting influence on lots of artists, if only for a moment. Bert Jansch’s ‘Woe Is Love, My Dear’, from 1967’s ‘Nicola’, is a wonderful piece of melancholic baroque pop (covered by the Koobas – as close as Bert ever got to being a beat group writer).
Similarly, in October 1967 Duffy Power had an era-evoking single on Parlophone, ‘Davy O’Brien’ (by Randy Newman) / ‘July Tree’, with similar faux baroquery. Contrast this with his sound in January 1967 on the single ‘Hound Dog’, on Decca. both brilliant, both world’s apart. It was a similar story for lots of artists that year.
Hound Dog:
July Tree:
Bartleby says
Fascinating Colin. I’ve somehow completely missed Duffy Power on my travels. Is there an LP/CD that would serve as an appropriate introduction?
Colin H says
Some of the CD reissues/comps/archive trawls (including ‘Vampers & Champers’ on RPM) are now annoyingly out of print/pricey, but I think the key ones that should be affordable are ‘Innovations’ (a 1971 LP that released for the first time his amazing 1965-66 demos with the likes of Jack Bruce, John Mclaughlin, Thompson & Cox, Phil Seamen, Red Reece…) – which is often reissued itself – and RPM’s 2CD comp of Duffy’s 1962-67 EMI recordings plus unreleased studio material, ‘Leapers & Sleepers’. RPM’s ‘Just Stay Blue’ is also great, including the three 1966 Bruce/Baker/McLaughlin/Power studio tracks that were intended to yield a single (not eventuating, though one did appear as an EP track in France), and also most of an unreleased album he made backed by Argent in 1970. I think those three should be affordable/available.
Here’s one of those Cream+McL+Power rave-ups, written by Duffy & John:
Bartleby says
Thanks. Leapers and Sleepers looked just the ticket, then, as you say, ‘ow much?!
Eventuating eh?
Colin H says
It’s most annoying when a great artist’s work goes out of print. I might have to intervene in some way. It would be wonderful to create a 3CD 1962-71 ‘complete studio works’ in clamshell box.
In the meantime, you could ‘make an offer’ for Leapers & Sleepers with this seller on ebay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Duffy-Power-Leapers-And-Sleepers-CD-Rare-34-Track-Double-Album-/272499916095?hash=item3f7242bd3f:g:ZkUAAOSwEzxYYpMI
And/or for this seller with a European 2CD version of the Innovations LP, which appears to be Innovations (stunning 1965-66 recordings with all-star bands) + a 1969 self-titled LP of mostly acoustic performances with light backing here and there (it was meant to be backed by jazz arrangements from Mike Gibbs, but that never, er, eventuated…):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CD-Duffy-Power-Innovations-16-Bonus-Tracks-Digi-Pack-2902-/112252776348?hash=item1a22c96f9c:g:9joAAOSwUKxYbK4l
Bartleby says
Blimey – Β£27 for a double CD?! I’m happy to wait for something affordable to turn up π
Tiggerlion says
The most psychedelic album of the year was Safe As Milk, thanks to the Captain’s unique way of thinking and Ry Cooder’s talent. Every track is different, every track’s a gem. The mono version is best.
Zig Zag Wanderer
https://youtu.be/BrcV018K7WY
dai says
The greatest album ever made was released …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdELzBV9pyo
mikethep says
I spent the six weeks of summer 1967 in Paris, between failing my first-year exams and failing them again. It was part of my course – the course that I obviously wasn’t going to see all the way through – and I was on a grant. I checked into a cheap hotel in the Rue du Sommerard, off the Bvd St Germain, and pitched up at the Alliance FranΓ§aise for the language course I was supposed to be doing. It turned out they’d put me in a class of people who could speak no French at all, so I made myself scarce and settled down to enjoy myself.
I soon fell in with a shifting bunch of hippies, travellers and street people, and spent most of my time hanging about on street corners in the Latin Quarter, doing a bit of busking and panhandling, existing on baguettes, cheese and wine with occasional fill-ups of couscous and Vietnamese. Much dope was smoked. I spent a glorious night sitting by the Seine with Brian Patten, who was there on an Arts Council jolly, drinking wine and smoking joint after taxpayer-funded joint, followed by onion soup at Les Halles..
I fell in love, fruitlessly, with a beautiful girl called Steph, who had her leg in plaster. She’d been dumped in Paris by her boyfriend because she was likely to be a drag, you know, on a motorbike trip to India. I fell in love, also fruitlessly, with another beautiful girl called Vivienne, who later turned up in Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. But I had my moments, particularly when the word got around that I had a hotel room. Eventually the proprietor tired of the constant stream of waifs and strays trailing up and down his vertiginous stairs at all hours and kicked me out. I moved to another hotel and started again.
I hung out in Shakespeare & Company, half-heartedly angling for a job. I was asked to join a band by a couple of lads who heard me noodling in the music department of Prisunic. I sold newspapers occasionally, filling in for a large and aggressive Iranian whose sales pitch consisted of, ‘Hey fuck, you buy paper!’ shouted right in the customer’s face. I spent a day in a cafΓ© filming some cheapo nonsense, standing up over and over again and shouting ‘Arabes assassins!’ and getting paid in beer. (I still vaguely hope to see myself in some arty 60s French movie.) I watched a horrendously drunk Finn walk straight through a plate-glass window and come out without a scratch. ‘The door was too far,’ he said. When I had the energy I roamed far and wide over Paris, learning the city in a way that still stands me in good stead.
The soundtrack of those 6 weeks was the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Traffic, Buffalo Springfield and of course Sergeant Pepper, heard au disco, on the radio, on the jukebox, coming out of shops…White Rabbit always takes me straight back to me and another guy trying to play it in the little square next to Shakespeare & Co.
I occasionally remembered that I was supposed to be working for resits. I spent a couple of hours in a cafΓ© self-consciously reading La Princesse de ClΓ¨ves (in English; I was supposed to have read it in French months before). That was about it. On the last day I went back to the Alliance FranΓ§aise to pick up my attendance certificate. Amazingly, they gave it to me, which was lucky because I, or rather my dad, wouldn’t have got the grant otherwise.
I arrived home lean, hairy and grubby, presented my mother with 6 weeks’ worth of dirty laundry, and went off to Coventry to fail my exams again. The rest is history, of course, but that was a hell of a 6 weeks.
Sniffity says
In contrast, I was in Grade 2 in primary school, and was known as the go-to person if you wanted reasonable drawings of the Thunderbirds.
Colin H says
It’s more than enough for a novel, Mike – you must know that! All you need to add is a weird encounter with a disshevelled and apocalyptic Vince Taylor in a rainy backstreet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9UugAMufjg
mikethep says
No sign of the Vincester Colin, sadly. However, a couple of years before I encountered a bleary-eyed British beat combo stumbling out of a van near the Eiffel Tower who had been hired to be Johnny Hallyday’s backing band. I often wonder who they were, but Google gives no clue. The 23-CD retrospective might help – you didn’t write the booklet by any chance?
Colin H says
No.
bricameron says
Wistful wonder. Thanks Mike.
Hawkfall says
When I was Mike’s age, I spent the summer filling shelves in the local supermarket and drinking Diamond White. There was a cafe in my home town, but their idea of a cappuccino was to 3/4 fill a mug with black Nescafe and then squirt Anchor Dairy Cream on top.
Sewer Robot says
Series 5 of The Avengers is in colour (and will be in color on U.S. tv)
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o615/JohnDetail/9A6D0BB5-6867-4969-B23E-49BE1E115319-191-000000021E4634DF_tmp_zpscksngt5v.jpeg
Moose the Mooche says
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Sewer Robot says
I meant to add that I’m in awe of that hyper-vivid colour of late sixties stuff like The Champions etc. Can any of you technical people on here explain why this stuff still looks so amazing (I mean, I know much of the washed out dirty colours of the seventies were about realism, but even fantasy shows from that time like U.F.O. don’t explode off the screen in the same way as ten years before..)
Bartleby says
To what extent did psychedelia become (High Street) commercialised, I wonder? Did shops like Woolies got in on the act, as they had done previously with Beatles moptop wigs and as later, Sears would, selling ponchos (mmm….. no fooling)? I’ve seen some terrific Woolies posters for Baby Doll lipstick (if anyone can be bothered to go through the image posting grief) but am not aware of any other merchandise that might have been available on the High Street (M&S paisley pjjamas notwithstanding).
dai says
“They are selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man ….”
Bartleby says
Yes indeed! Probably not until 1969 tho, I’d guess. Meanwhile…
https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/babydoll.jpg
https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/babydoll2.jpg
https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/babydoll3.jpg
https://kasiacharko.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/sweet-jane-blog-moon-shiny1.jpg
Which, if you can be bothered to check (I completely give up on this image posting thing – it never works) is pretty glorious.
Moose the Mooche says
If you think I’m not clicking on a link that starts “emmapeelpants”, you don’t know Moose Jehosophat Mooche.
minibreakfast says
You just need to upload the pics to a host such as imgur or photobucket. It’s very easy, and sometimes it even works!
Bartleby says
I’ve followed the entire FAQ protocol, that doesn’t work. I have a photobucket account, but that’s become a nightmare of inescapable pop-ups and bugs. I tried downloading Imgur on my phone, but I can’t remotely see how it will lead to uploaded photos. I give up I’m afraid.
minibreakfast says
Yeah, Photobucket is unusable on my tablet, and a bit of a pain on the laptop. I don’t blame you.
Bartleby says
Thanks mini. I’ll persevere no doubt! Is it the Imgur app or website that people use to upload?
nickduvet says
I have the same problem now with photobucket. Never used to happen when we had to put the bit of code at either end
minibreakfast says
I’ve not used imgur yet, but @johnny-concheroo does. Johnny?
pencilsqueezer says
Obviously I am not JC but I use imgur on the rare occasions I post images on The Dafterword and not had any issues with it.
It just works.
Johnny Concheroo says
I used to use Photobucket on the old blog and still do sometimes for the photos I still have on there, but it suddenly became almost unusable with pop-ups and other stuff. So just went to the Imgur site and started an account. It’s dead easy and works OK 90% of the time.
Just a few things you have to watch out for. Always make sure you’re logged in because it will still let you upload images even if you’re not, but where it uploads them to, god only knows. The don’t appear in your library. they just disappear into the ether.
The other important thing to remember is to choose the “direct link” option when you copy the URL of the image to paste into your Afterword post. There are six options available, but this is the only one that works here.
To re-cap.
1) Open Imgur account
2) make a folder on your computer for your images (or put on your desktop)
3) Click on “add images”
4) Click “Browse”
5) Find the image where you left it on your computer – picture will automatically upload to Imgur
6) Image will now appear on the Imgur page.
7) Click on the image and six options will appear
6) Copy the URL for the second option “Direct Link” and paste into your Afterword post.
Don’t forget to make sure you’re logged in
If you edit your post the picture may disappear. Fix this by refreshing the page.
Bartleby says
Thanks Johnny. Will try.
minibreakfast says
Good to know. Ta, JC.
Moose the Mooche says
Round the Horne hit its absolute peak…
https://youtu.be/BJnj3LFtYSY
“We’ve got a criminal practice that takes up most of our time…”
…which reminds me of something else big that happened in 1967.
deramdaze says
Listening to “Buffalo Springfield Again” right now, a record decidedly light on psychedelia compared to the British groups of the time.
Where to start? Jimi, “Safe As Milk,” “Smile,” “Basement Tapes,” Love, “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever?” “The Prisoner?”
I love the Carnaby Street swirl of “Nicola,” “Emotions (The Pretty Things),” and “Satanic Majesties,” all lambasted at the time/disowned subsequently by those acts, but doubt I’ll ever listen to “Sgt. Pepper’s” again. I can’t say why. Over-familiarity maybe.
My favourite LPs by Bert Jansch, Jimi (“Axis”), The Kinks (“Something Else”), The Who (“Sell Out”) and The Doors (“Strange Days”) are all from ’67.
So many fantastic psych 45s, as re-issued on See For Miles and Bam Caruso, but special mention for “Beeside” by Tintern Abbey on…..Deram. Written in a Cornish cottage apparently. I’d love to know where.
moseleymoles says
Developing nicely is 1967. Not much on film – and it’s a good year on celluloid too. Being 2 at the time my cinema going has been in retrospect but from this year have enjoyed:
The Producers
Point Blank
Bonnie and Clyde
Billion Dollar Brain
The Dirty Dozen
Belle De Jour
The Graduate
Definitely a feeling that Hollywood is starting to come to grips with the youthquake happening all around it in Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, though we’re still a couple of years from Easy Rider and the full-on new Hollywood.
Kaisfatdad says
That’s an interesing list, MM.
1967 also gave us:
Pete and Dud in Bedazzled which I loved at the time but I fear has probably aged badly.
Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation!
Bartleby says
Superb film. Don’t know if it’s dated that much – watched lots at our house. “Leap for Beryl!”
Moose the Mooche says
Ian Hislop once said that in this clip PC invents punk. I think that’s a stretch, but he certainly makes a good stab of inventing D*v*d B*w*e.
Ten years later in Berlin, Eno & Bowie entertained themselves during studio longeurs in Berlin by doing the Dagenham Dialogues…
Tiggerlion says
In the world of Jazz, Miles continued to trail a blaze with his second (third?) great quintet with The Sorcerer and Nefertiti. I love the covers. Place them side by side, as I did in my late teens when I discovered them, and drink them in!
John Coltrane died. His last album, released posthumously, was Expression. The band featured Pharoah Saunders and Alice Coltrane. It’s actually quite a jolly affair, with one track featuring Coltrane playing flute.
Colin H says
And back in blighty Tubby Hayes’ last studio album proper, ‘Mexican Green’, was released – his brave attempt at absorbing the ‘new jazz’ influences of the time into his straight-ahead modernist style. It is probably his definitive work and a real shame that he wasn’t given any label opportunities to follow it up, as all the late-period posthumous live releases testify to a man reaching a real maturity as a player and with a great regular band.
1967 was also, in Britain, the year that the ‘Old Place generation’ of jazzers first got onto the record label ladder, with Mike Westbrook Concert Band’s ‘Celebration’ on Deram. There would be many more from that dazzling milieu of players over the next five years or so.
moseleymoles says
In Eurovision world its Sandie bloody Shaw. Listen to this once and the rest of the day is ruined…Earworm – more like an Earvulture
Rigid Digit says
Marine Broadcasting Offences Act came into force in August, forcing closure of Pirate Radio Stations broadcasting from British waters.
To fill the gap, the BBC launched Radio 1 at the end of September.
First song played – The Move: Flowers In The Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyAWaf0IngU
Colin H says
And over in Ireland, the legendary Sweeney’s Men (Andy Irvine, Terry Woods, Johnny Moynihan) were releasing their second Pye single ‘The Waxies Dargle’, with surreal ending – and having an Irish hit with it, which meant having to appear as a interval act in huge showband ballrooms with dodgy amplification. Andy recalls one night of horror gathered round a single mic singing in all 12 keys. They went on to record two great albums for Transatlantic and influence the nascent world of British folk-rock.
deramdaze says
’67 was an astonishing year for debut LPs.
Off the top of my head (and a spot of Wikipedia!)…..
Captain Beefheart, John Martyn, Laura Nyro, The Velvet Underground, The Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, David Bowie, The Doors, Country Joe & The Fish, Moby Grape, Kaleidoscope (U.K.), Kaleidoscope (U.S.!), The Bee Gees, Scott Walker, Van Morrison, Nico, The Bonzo Dog Band, The (Justin Hayward) Moody Blues, Sly & The Family Stone, Leonard Cohen, Traffic, Eddie Floyd and Harry Nilsson…..i.e. many massive artists.
Might as well also throw in Bob Dylan, whose “John Wesley Harding” is virtually the start of a new career. Ditto, Aretha on Atlantic.
Johnny Concheroo says
UK releases sure, but the Bee Gees were already veterans of the recording studio down under with several singles and at least two LPs in Australia before they returned to Britain in late 1966.
And Bob Dylan alone among the major artists almost released no new product in 1967 with JWH sneaking out on virtually the last day of the year in America. I’d have to check but it may even have been released Jan 1968 in the U.K.
Johnny Concheroo says
Update:
I checked and JWH first entered the UK charts on March 2, 1968. Being a Dylan LP, I think we can safely assume it charted immediately on release, so I’m saying it was a Jan or (more likely) Feb 1968 release in the UK.
Blue Boy says
Spurs beat Chelsea 2-1 in the first cup final I remember watching, and consigned this 10 year old to a usually frustrating lifetime of supporting the Lilywhites.
Rigid Digit says
QPR beat West Brom in the League Cup Final, becoming the first club from the Third Division (or “Third Tier” as we now have to refer to it) to win a major trophy.
They nearly won it again in 1986, but were overcome by the might of Oxford United
Sewer Robot says
That was the first League Cup Final played at Wembley. I wonder were the papers full of “eroding the special magic of the F.A. Cup” pieces at the time?
p.s. a bit cheeky to suggest they “nearly” won it in 86 – that was a very one-sided final which Rs fans prefer not to remember…
Locust says
1967 was a fantastic year – I was born in August… π
My mum tells me that it was a scorching hot summer that year, when they moved into the house I was to grow up in. She sat like a beached whale planting potatoes and flowers in the garden, while my siblings scrubbed the marble staircases behind the house and made them look very grand for the first time since they’d been built (and never again) – only one of many rather odd but charming features of that garden.
Every hour or so the radio played “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, according to my sister.
Hawkfall says
1967 was the year that Celtic became the first British (and also North European) team to win the European Cup, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon. They did so in a stadium that belongs to one of the few other teams in Europe that play in green and white hoops, Sporting Lisbon, a funny coincidence that no one seems to mention much.
Anyway, given that it’s the 50th anniversary this year, it’s possible the club may commemorate it in a low key way.
**SARCASM**SARCASM**SARCASM**
Doods says
Point of order : the 1967 final was played at the EstΓ‘dio Nacional, i.e. the national stadium, owned by the Portuguese FA. Sporting Lisbon played at the old EstΓ‘dio JosΓ© Alvalade, located further to the east.
Yes, the club may mark the occasion with a small sherry party, or similar.
Hawkfall says
Oof now that’s embarrassing and no mistake, but at least may explain why nobody ever mentioned it. You learn something every day on The Afterword, and not just about Sweden or The Beano album.
*sheepishly removes Football Fan Badge from Afterword Cubs jersey.*
Colin H says
It’s known as the BeanΓΆ album in Sweden…
duco01 says
When you said “They did so in a stadium that belongs to one of the few other teams in Europe that play in green and white hoops” I thought for a moment that they’d played the European Cup Final at Huish Athletic Ground, the former home of Yeovil Town.
Hawkfall says
Admit it Duco, you just wanted to mention Yeovil Town!
Bartleby says
1967 was of course the year that the Labour government finally relented to constant lobbying and passed the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act. Pirate Radio was dead at a stroke.
Here (at 2.48 in) is Smashie and Nicey showing us what we lost:
Declan says
Ah, 1967! Mellotrons, phasing, sitars, druggy lyrics*
Traffic were an object lesson
*The flipside was all this soul-destroying mumsy ballad stuff from Engelbert Humperdinck, Malcolm Roberts, etc.