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The Times
January 03, 2006

The Summer of Love is still top of the pops...
By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter

THE Summer of Love has maintained an enduring grip over a generation of music fans as 1967 was voted the greatest year for pop in a poll of Radio 2 listeners yesterday.
It was the year the Beatles unleashed Sgt Pepper and the British Establishment rescued the Rolling Stones after a notorious drugs bust.

Amid the ferment of anti-Vietnam protests, Jimi Hendrix conjured unprecedented sounds from the electric guitar, the Monkees ruled the charts and the Beach Boys expanded the vocabulary of pop. Thousands of listeners placed the achievements of 1967 above the rock’n’roll explosion of 1957 and 1973, when Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon eclipsed all progressive rock contenders.

The search for the ultimate music year provoked heated exchanges during yesterday’s radio debate. The broadcaster Andrew Collins argued that 1967 was seriously overrated, citing as evidence the 13-week reign of The Sound of Music soundtrack at the top of the album charts.

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band dominated reflections on 1967, when the Beatles performed All You Need is Love to 400 million people on the first worldwide television broadcast.

British groups held America in thrall and the Rolling Stones agreed to tone down the lyrics to Let’s Spend the Night Together on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was the only concession to propriety from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who were convicted of drugs offences but avoided a stay in jail after a plea for clemency in a Times editorial.

The origins of the modern rock festival can be traced to 1967, when 200,000 fans gathered for the Monterey festival in California, where they witnessed stunning performances from Hendrix and The Who.

The average age of Radio 2 listeners is 51 (and falling) and it is likely that many who voted had personal experience of the psychedelic atmosphere that fuelled the Summer of Love.

The musical axis switched to San Francisco, with Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the Doors and the Byrds. Aretha Franklin and Joan Baez inspired a new wave of women performers and future British stars such as David Bowie, Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees began to find their recording feet.

The vote also produced a candidate for the worst year in music: 1999 generated the fewest votes out of the 50 possible candidates. In a desperate search for highlights from this musical nadir, the Radio 2 website hailed “the year of Robbie Williams and Eminem, Britney Spears emerges with Baby One More Time, Blondie reform for No Exit and Dusty Springfield dies”.


A nice little guitar store article
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Been back to work and kidz are home.
Nice to see three tan faces and have the place buzzing again.
Not that I didnt LOVE having all that time to myself (read 2 and a half books!) and then lotsa time with friends!
And it was heaven-We did our own "home stretch til the kids came home" Dead-a-thon dvd kick back,
Vegging out in front of the fireplace, watching Festival Express, followed by Dead Ahead, then the JGB @ Shoreline and some of my old video trades, coffee table full of junk food, trading show stories with Scott and a buddy.
But, yep, it's all over now..gotta finally get the preschool newsletter together and stop procrastinating on the TY notes and email.
Did I mention, one month til Ratdog?
woof!