Events
January 4 - Guitarist
Jimi Hendrix is jailed by
Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding.
January 6 -
Gibson Guitar Corporation patents its
Gibson Flying V electric guitar design.
January 13 -
Johnny Cash performs his famous concert at
Folsom Prison in California.
January 21 -
Simon and Garfunkel release album
The Graduate Original Soundtrack.January -
The Beatles launch
Apple Corps, Ltd., a disastrously mismanaged entertainment company that included a recording studio, a record label, and clothing store.
February 1Priscilla Presley gives birth to
Elvis' only child,
Lisa Marie at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in
Memphis, Tennessee.
Universal Studios offers
the Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made.
February 12 -
Jimi Hendrix is given an honorary high school diploma from
Garfield High School in
Seattle, Washington. Hendrix is also given the key to the city.
February 16 -
The Beatles,
Mike Love,
Mia Farrow,
Donovan and others travel to
India to visit the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at
Rishikesh.
February 18 -
David Gilmour joins
Pink Floyd, replacing founder
Syd Barrett, who checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
February 21 - McGraw-Hill, Inc. outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S. rights to
Hunter Davies' authorized biography of
the Beatles.
February 22 -
Florence Ballard of
the Supremes is released from her contract with
Motown.
February 28 -
Frankie Lymon dies.
March 8 -
Bill Graham opens the
Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in
New York City.
March 25 - The 58th and final new episode of
The Monkees airs on NBC.
March 26 - Blues artist
Little Willie John dies in prison after being convicted of manslaughter.
March 30 -
The Yardbirds record their live album Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater.
April 3 -
Simon and Garfunkel release the critically acclaimed album
Bookends.
April 4 -
James Brown appears on national television, in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the United States following the assassination of Reverend
Martin Luther King Jr.April -
The Beatles' new record company, and management and publishing firm,
Apple Corps, Ltd., opens offices in
LondonApril 6 -
Eurovision Song Contest held in the
Royal Albert Hall,
London. The winning song,
Spain's "
La La La" was sung by
Massiel, but only because Spanish authorities wouldn't allow
Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan.
April 7 - Singer/pianist/songwriter
Nina Simone's performance at Westbury Music Fair is dedicated to the murder of
Dr. Martin Luther King. The song "Why? (the king of love is dead)" by Gene Taylor is performed for the first time. the show was partially released on the emmy nominated album
Nuff Said (1968).
April 29 - The rock musical
Hair opened on
Broadway at the
Biltmore Theatre.
May 4 -
Mary Hopkin performs on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks. Hopkin catches the attention of model
Twiggy, who recommends her to
Beatle Paul McCartney. McCartney would soon sign Hopkin to
Apple Records.
May 5 -
Buffalo Springfield performs together for the last time in
Long Beach, California.
May 30 -
The Beatles begin recording what would become their double-LP, thereafter known, for obvious reasons, as
The White Album, but officially titled, simply, "The Beatles". Sessions would span over 4 months, ending on
October 14.
June -
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake album released by
Small Faces July 7 -
The Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding.
August 4 -
Yes performs for the first time, at a summer camp.
August 23 -
Simon and Garfunkel give live concert at the
Hollywood Bowl,
Hollywood,
California. Recording is later released on
CD in
1994 by
Australian company Vigotone Records as
Voices Of Intelligent Dissent.
September 7 -
Led Zeppelin performs for the first time; at their first show, they are billed as
The Yardbirds (the Yardbirds had disbanded two months earlier, and guitarist
Jimmy Page subsequently formed this new group).
September 14 – The two small sons of singer
Roy Orbison, Roy DeWayne Orbison age 10, and Anthony King Orbison age 6, die in a house fire in
Hendersonville, Tennessee.
November 8 -
John Lennon and his wife Cynthia divorce.
November 15 - 500,000 people march in
Washington DC for peace, which becomes the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history. In attendance:
Arlo Guthrie,
Pete Seeger,
Peter, Paul and Mary,
John Denver,
Mitch Miller, touring cast of
HairNovember 22 -
The Beatles (also known as "The White Album") by
The Beatles is released
November 26 -
Cream plays their farewell concert at the
Royal Albert Hall. It will be the last time
Eric Clapton,
Jack Bruce, and
Ginger Baker play together until their
1993 induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
December 1 - Jimi Hendrix's manager
Chas Chandler quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of Electric Ladyland
New Jersey Police confiscate 30,000 copies of
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono's
Two Virgins album at
Newark Airport, saying that the cover, which features a nude photo of the two artists, is "pornographic." In
Chicago, Illinois, police officers shut down a record shop for displaying the album cover.
December 3 -
Elvis Presley's
1968 Comeback Special airs on
NBC.
Rush is formed in Toronto.
The Band's musical career begins.
James Taylor's musical career begins.
Joni Mitchell's musical career begins.
Carpenters' musical career begins.
Warren Zevon's musical career begins.
Deep Purple/Roundabout's musical career begins.
Nazareth's musical career begins.
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