In the year 1967….

…. the Bow’-Dawg was busy promoting his self titled debut album to hardly any attention at all, meanwhile other stuff was happening in the world. Stuff like this:

Interstellar!




Tragically U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire inside Apollo 1 whilst it was still on the launch pad.

The USA, USSR and UK signed the Outer Space Treaty which bars the placing of WMDs on the moon, on any celestial body or orbiting the earth. The treaty’s still going with 98 counties in on it now.






Black Holes were duly named by Professor John Archibald Wheeler. You’d think he could have come up with a better name then that after all those years at college. I expect he was a big disappointment to his parents.





Music too my ears!
The B-boy didn’t have much success that year, but plenty of other people did.








Aretha Franklin released Respect. CHOON!


The ‘Summer of Love’ introduced a new generation to STDs.

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu got married in Vegas.






The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Gimme Pet Sounds anyday) and they were parodied in The Jungle Book (the last film Walt Disney personally over saw).
Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
The Doors released their debut album and upset middle America by singing the word “higher” on telly (not exactly the birth of punk was it).









Tony Blackburn got BBC Radio 1 off to a flying start by spinning ‘Flowers in the Rain’ by the Move.



Mr and Mrs Cobain were proud to announce the arrival of bouncing baby Kurt.






Let’s get Technological!







China got their H-bomb groove on.













BBC 2 started broadcasting colour telly. Nice.













The Concorde was shown off for the first time in Toulouse, France. Although super sonic passenger jets never caught on, this was a culturally significant moment as 35 years later the air craft would inspire the worlds 4th best novelty folk band.