Archive for the ‘The Competition’ Category
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December 6, 1968
06 Dec 2018Today the Rolling Stones’ 7th British studio album was released. Beggars Banquet (there is no apostrophe in the title, though there…
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December 3, 1968
03 Dec 2018In the USA tonight, NBC aired a special officially called “Singer Presents … Elvis.” That would be Elvis Presley, a/k/a…
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The Village Green Preservation Society
24 Nov 2018Also released on this weekend in 1968 — with considerably less fanfare than the White Album — was The Kinks…
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John Wesley Harding/Songs of Leonard Cohen
29 Dec 2017It seems like it must mean something that these two albums, released at the very tail end of 1967, run…
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December 15, 1967
15 Dec 2017If you were a lucky kid in 1967, you could have new records by The Beatles, the Stones, and the…
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December 8, 1967
08 Dec 2017Today the Magical Mystery Tour double EP went on sale in the UK. I recently acquired one of these, and…
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
09 Aug 2017In the course of following George’s travels in California last week, I neglected to note the release of Pink Floyd’s…
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July 1, 1967
01 Jul 2017The Beatles basically took the next two months off, traveling and spending money and enjoying the sunshine. And while some…
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June 10–11, 1967
11 Jun 2017On these days, says Wikipedia, The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was [held] at the 4,000-seat Sidney B.…