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1965, Bob Dylan’s debut album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ was at No.1 on the album chart. 1965, Paul McCartney spent the day shopping for furniture in Portobello Road, London disguised in a cloth cap, moustache, glasses and overcoat. 1969, The Band step out from behind Bob Dylan for the first time to perform solo at [...]
John Simon’s 1970 debut album for Warner Brothers, called John Simon’s Album, was a culmination of the many album projects he produced over the two years it took to record. While a staff producer at Columbia Records, Simon produced such classics as Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends, Big Brother & The Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills, Leonard [...]
1968, The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the album chart with ‘Waiting For The Sun’. 1968, The Rascals (formally the Young Rascals), started a five week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘People Got To Be Free’. The group had thirteen top 40 hits. 1969, The final day of the [...]
1967, The Who began their first full North American tour at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, appearing as support band to Herman’s Hermits on 55 dates. 1968, Promoter Bill Graham leaves the Fillmore Auditorium to take over San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom. Electric Flag and Blue Cheer play the final Fillmore concerts. 1969, At the Mississippi [...]
1967, The Doors ‘Light My Fire’ was released in the US, it went on to be No.1 on the singles chart two months later. 1967, Jefferson Airplane appear on American Bandstand, playing “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.” 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol’s studio in [...]
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