On 15 October 1966, Pink Floyd made their major debut at the Roundhouse under the name the Pink Floyd.
Released in August 1966, a week before the Beatles’ final tour, Revolver marked another artistic step forward for the group. The album featured sophisticated songwriting, studio experimentation and a greatly expanded repertoire of musical styles, ranging from innovative classical string arrangements to psychedelia . Abandoning the customary group photograph, its…
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The band made their unofficial debut at the Twisted Wheel on 29 July 1966, with the official debut two nights later at the Sixth Annual Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. Being new and with few original songs to their credit, they performed blues reworkings that thrilled the large crowd and…
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By July 1966, Eric Clapton ‘s career with the Yardbirds and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers had earned him a reputation as one of the premier blues guitarists in Britain. Clapton, however, found the environment of Mayall’s band confining and sought to expand his playing in a new band. In…
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In June 1966, the Capitol LP Yesterday and Today caused an uproar with its cover, which portrayed the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher’s overalls, accompanied by raw meat and mutilated plastic baby dolls. According to Beatles biographer Bill Harry , it has been incorrectly suggested that this was meant as…
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They had begun to receive paid bookings, including a performance at the Marquee Club in March 1966, where Peter Jenner , a lecturer at the London School of Economics , noticed them.
Wilson collaborated with jingle writer Tony Asher on several of the songs for the album Pet Sounds , a refinement of the themes and ideas introduced in Today! . In some ways, the music was a jarring departure from their earlier style. Released on May 16, 1966, Pet Sounds was…
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McCartney was initially reluctant to try it, but eventually did so in late 1966. He became the first Beatle to discuss LSD publicly, declaring in a magazine interview that “it opened my eyes” and “made me a better, more honest, more tolerant member of society”.
In Britain throughout 1966, EMI flooded the UK market with Beach Boys albums not yet released there, including Beach Boys’ Party! , The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) , while Best of the Beach Boys was number 2 there for several weeks at the end of…
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Throughout the summer of 1966, Brian concentrated on finishing the group’s next single, ” Good Vibrations “. It was one of the most complex pop productions ever undertaken, with sessions for the song stretching over months in four major Hollywood studios, and the most expensive single then ever recorded. Simultaneously,…
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