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November 17, 1967 Davy Jones of The Monkees opens a boutique called Zilch I, named after a Monkees song, in New York's Greenwich Village.
November 15, 1967 Obsessive fans looking for "Paul Is Dead" clues on album covers and in songs push two previous Beatles albums, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, back onto the Billboard albums chart.
November 14, 1967 Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, The Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, Jimi Hendrix.
November 9, 1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published, with a photo of John Lennon on the cover and items about David Crosby, The Who and Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe & the Fish).More
November 9, 1967 In a battle of egos, The Byrds's Roger McGuinn boots David Crosby from the group. Crosby is replaced by Gene Clark and goes on to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
November 7, 1967 Pink Floyd appear on US TV for the first time, performing "Apples And Oranges" on American Bandstand.
November 7, 1967 The radio station KSHE 94.7 FM in St. Louis flips format from easy listening to rock, starting with "White Rabbit." The move helps spread the sounds and ethos of the counterculture to the midwest, and KSHE becomes a major force in the movement.
November 6, 1967 Bob Dylan records "All Along the Watchtower," later made famous in a cover by Jimi Hendrix. He also bangs out "John Wesley Harding," "As I Went Out One Morning," "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" and "I Am A Lonesome Hobo" at the sessions.
November 5, 1967 Kenny Rogers makes his TV debut, appearing with his group The First Edition on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
October 26, 1967 Keith Urban is born in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, but moves with his family to Queensland, Australia when he's 2. He conquers America in the '00s with a string of hits that includes "Somebody Like You" and "You'll Think Of Me." In 2012 he's inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
October 21, 1967 Lulu's "To Sir With Love" hits #1 in the US for the first of five weeks. Lulu performs the song in the movie of the same name, where she portrays a high school student taught by Sidney Poitier.
October 18, 1967 The Richard Lester movie How I Won The War, an antiwar satire featuring John Lennon in the role of Pvt. Gripweed, opens at London's Premiere Theatre, with all four Beatles attending.
October 18, 1967 Louis Armstrong, 66 years old, releases "What a Wonderful World." It goes to #1 in the UK, but takes a lot longer to catch on in his home country of America, where it doesn't make much impact until 1988 when it's used in the film Good Morning, Vietnam.
October 14, 1967 After 15 weeks at #1, The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is knocked out of the top spot by Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe.
October 4, 1967 George Harrison and John Lennon appear on David Frost's TV show, where they take the "pro" side in a debate over Transcendental Meditation. On the panel is the author Juan Mascaro, who later sends Harrison a book containing a translation of Chapter 47 of Tao Te Ching, which he uses as the lyric for the song "The Inner Light."
October 2, 1967 Bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is born in New York City. She grows up in Los Angeles, where her adoptive parents, Ken and Mitzie Welch, write music for The Carol Burnett Show.
October 2, 1967 Drummer Bud Gaugh is born Floyd I. Gaugh IV in Long Beach, California. With lead singer Brad Nowell and bass player Eric Wilson, he forms Sublime in 1988. After Nowell's death in 1996, he and Wilson keep making music together but can't use the Sublime name until Nowell's son Jakob joins them in 2023.
October 1, 1967 Mick Jagger's apartment in London is burglarized, with girlfriend Marianne Faithfull's furs and jewelry being among the items listed as stolen.
September 29, 1967 John Lennon flips on the radio while working on "I Am The Walrus" and hears a BBC broadcast of the Shakespeare play King Lear, which he decides to mix into the song.
September 25, 1967 The Doors release their second album, Strange Days, which includes such classic songs as "People Are Strange," "Love Me Two Times" and "When The Music's Over."
September 25, 1967 Little-known country singer Dolly Parton makes her first appearance on The Porter Wagoner Show, singing two songs from her debut album: "Dumb Blonde" and "Something Fishy." She becomes the full-time replacement for the program's longtime singer, Norma Jean. Parton stays on the show for seven years and records string of popular duet albums with Wagoner.
September 24, 1967 The Beatles film the dance scene to their song "Your Mother Should Know" for their film Magical Mystery Tour. Paul McCartney stokes the rumors that he is dead by wearing a black carnation while the other guys wear red.
September 20, 1967 Identical twins Matthew and Gunnar Nelson (of Nelson) are born to teen idol Ricky Nelson and actress Kristin Harmon in Santa Monica, California.
September 18, 1967 The Beatles journey to the Raymond Revue bar in London to film the notorious "striptease" scene in Magical Mystery Tour. Accompanying stripper Jan Carson is The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, playing a song called "Death Cab For Cutie."
September 18, 1967 The Beach Boys release Smiley Smile, a stripped-down version of their unreleased album Smile that includes "Good Vibrations."
September 17, 1967 Appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Doors are asked to change the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" in their hit "Light My Fire" to "Girl, we couldn't get much better." Lead singer Jim Morrison agrees, then sings the offending line anyway, angering the host and earning a lifetime ban from the show.
September 17, 1967 Keith Moon of The Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the end of "My Generation" during the group's appearance on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but he doesn't realize that the stage crew has already set the charge. The resulting explosion cuts Moon's leg, singes Pete Townshend's hair, and startles fellow guests Bette Davis and Mickey Rooney.
September 9, 1967 The Spider-Man animated series debuts on ABC. The iconic theme song inspires a range of covers from the Ramones to Aerosmith to Michael Buble.
September 3, 1967 A young Swedish singer named Anni-Frid Lyngstad wins a talent-show contest on the TV program Hyland's Corner with her group the Anni-Frid Four. She would later become famous as one of the two female lead singers of ABBA.
September 1, 1967 A young guitarist named Boz Scaggs joins The Steve Miller Band, the blues band led by his childhood friend, Steve Miller.
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