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1967: A Year In Psychedelic Rock : The Bands And The Sounds Of The Summer Of Love, Paperback / softback Book

1967: A Year In Psychedelic Rock : The Bands And The Sounds Of The Summer Of Love Paperback / softback

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Paperback / softback

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It was the year the Sixties really started swinging - the Summer of Love, when the Rolling Stones said 'We Love You' and The Beatles pointed out that 'All You Need Is Love'.

The piper was at the gates of dawn, a strange brew was bubbling in the mellow, yellow mind gardens and a purple haze air was in the air.

At the centre of the year's tumultuous social and cultural change was the mind-expanding music called psychedelic rock, a multi-coloured mixture of amazing sounds, when imagination and experimentation ran riot and the old musical boundaries were torn down in a haze of hallucinogenic abandon. In this fascinating book, Kevan Furbank looks at the roots of psychedelic rock and examines the contributions made by some of the biggest bands of the year, including The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Love, Pink Floyd and The Beach Boys. He examines the hits and misses, the successes and failures, the bands that were born to be psychedelic and those that had psychedelia thrust upon them - sometimes with disastrous results. And he shows how the genre planted the seeds for other forms of popular music to take root and flourish.

If you love music, and want to know why 1967 was such a watershed year, then you will want this book.

It is eye-popping, mind-opening and horizon-expanding - and a splendid time is guaranteed for all

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