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