Archive for June, 2017
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End of June 1967; a Few Words from Richard Hell
30 Jun 2017So now that Sgt. Pepper had been out for a month, with people listening to it obsessively over and over…
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June 28, 1967
28 Jun 2017Today’s news, according to The Beatles Bible: George Harrison received a £6 fine on this day for breaking the speed…
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June 26, 1967
26 Jun 2017With the decision having been made to release “All You Need Is Love” as a single, it was now necessary…
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June 25, 1967
25 Jun 2017The “All You Need Is Love” live satellite broadcast was part of a program called “Our World,” which the BBC…
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June 24, 1967
24 Jun 2017“All we need is John.” For today’s Beatles news, let’s check in with Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions:…
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June 23, 1967
23 Jun 2017With the clock ticking on the satellite broadcast of “All You Need Is Love” — now just two days away…
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June 21, 1967
21 Jun 2017Today was officially the first day of the Summer of Love. Also the birthdate of one of my favorite people.…
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June 19, 1967
19 Jun 2017Today, the day after his 25th birthday and two days after having admitted in print that he’d taken LSD (it was…
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June 18, 1967
18 Jun 2017If you did it right, today would have gone something like this: Wake up late, still a little high from Otis…
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June 17, 1967
17 Jun 2017This was the second day of the Monterey Pop Festival, with a full day of performances including: Canned Heat Big Brother…