1967: The Monterey Music Festival, Rolling Stone Magazine and the Summer of Love

Six Day War

This war began on June 5 and 10, 1967 between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. On June 11 a cease fire was signed.

Vietnam War

Operation Deckhouse five was conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps along the Mekong River Delta on January 6, 1967. Operation Cedar Falls would take place on January 8, 1967. However, the most famous battle fought by the South Korean Marines was the Battle of Tra Binh Dong near the border of Cambodia.

Green Bay Packers 1st Super bowl

This game was played on January 15, 1967 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.

Apollo1

U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire broke out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

Summer of Love

Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

Human Be-In

The Human Be-in was an event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco’s Summer of Love and helped introduce the word psychedelic to suburbia.

Rolling Stone magazine

Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner. The first issue was November 9, 1967. At the time, it was published in a newspaper format. It cost 35 cents and the first issue featured an article on the Monterey Pop Festival. Wenner explained that the magazine was a tribute to the song Rollin’ Stone by Muddy Waters, the rock band The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan’s hit Like a Rolling Stone. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone “is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces”.

Elvis married Priscilla

Elvis Presley and Priscilla got married on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. The wedding was arranged by Elvis’ manager Colonel Parker to maximize publicity. It featured very few guests and was over in only eight minutes.

Monterey Pop Festival

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 in Monterey, California Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000-90,000 people.
Artists who performed were The Who, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and The Papas, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Otis Redding, Scott McKenzie, Simon and Garfunkel, Canned Heat, and Ravi Shankar

Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin rose to fame in 1967 during an appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival. At this time she was the lead singer of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band called Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Beatles, Sgt Peppers

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was the eighth studio album by the Beatles and was released on June 1, 1967.

The Dirty Dozen

This was a 1967 American war film released by MGM and starring Lee Mavin

The Heat of the Night

This 1967 American mystery/drama film is based on John Ball’s novel of the same name. It starred Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Warren Oates. It won five Academy Awards, including the 1967 award for Best Picture.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

This 1967 American comedy/drama was produced and directed by Stankley Kramer and starred Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Katharine Houghton. The film is notable for being the ninth and final on-screen pairing of Tracy and Hepburn, with filming ending just 17 days before Tracy’s death.

Cool Hand Luke

This prison drama film was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starred Paul Newman as a prisoner in a Florida prison camp. It is based on a novel by Donn Pearce.

The Smothers Brothers

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour began airing on CBS in 1967