1967: Monkey, Experiences or a Summer of Love? Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!

The Monkeys went famous for their TV show and Jimi Hendrix went famous for his reinvention of the electric guitarplaying, in February he released a cover of "Hey Joe" and in May his epoch-making album " Are You Experienced?" was released! Melody Maker(1967) about Jimi Hendrix music: "...it´s flying music. Love and Freedom. Body, Soul, Funk, Feeling, Feedback and Freak....the Emotion, the Power, and the Beauty..." and about the album, " Are You Experienced?": "..change speed mid-number, stop, start, fade, fizzle, simmer and burn in a cauldron of beatiful fire".

Summer of Love: 'tune in, turn on, drop out' and psychedelic music was in the mood in San Francisco with happenings, 'be-ins' and 'love-ins', taking place all over the "city", with bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, Love and Jefferson Airplan. The concerts ads was psychedelic LSD inspired art posters and the people at the happenings were described as 'hippies'. In June the first large scale outdoor rock music festival was held in California, the Monterey Pop Festival, with bands like the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, the Byrds; Jeffereson Airplane and others.
The Beatles hooked on the psychedelic trend and released "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields", they perform "All You Need Is Love" in the first worldwide television broadcast and released their legendary masterpiece: "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band". Paul McCartney admitted that he had taken LSD and in July Mick Jagger was accused for possessing drugs(Benzedrine) also in July: Pink Floyd has a big hit with the psychedelic single, "See Emily Play". Scott McKenzie hits the charts with the Summer of Love song:, "(If You're Going To) San Francisco"

In December a new Hendrix album is released, "Axis: Bold As Love", in an interview with Melody Maker Jimi Hendrix is describing the intention with the album: "...we've tried to get the freaky tracks right into another dimesion so you get that sky effedt like they´re coming down ot the heavens..", he was also Melody Makers's choice: 'Pop Soundof the Year' despite the massive commercial succes of the Beatles.

January:

The Rolling Stones release of "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday". They played "Let's Spend the Night Together" on The Ed Sullivan Show and, on Ed's request changed lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".
The Beatles is doing a promotional film for their single Strawberry Fields Forever
The "Human Be-In" in San Francisco, USA
Pink Floyd recording four tracks: "Interstellar Overdrive", "Arnold Layne", "Candy And A Currant Bun" and "Nicks Boogie".
Terry Knight & The Pack(Grand Funk) - "This Precious Time" WKNR(US) #18

February:

Donovan release: "Mellow Yellow" / "Preachin' Love"
Release of the The Beatles "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields"
Pete Townshend talks about his writing of a pop opera
The Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" (US Chart)
Producer Joe Meek(Tornados "Telstar") murders his landlady and then commits suicide
Police raid at the home of Keith Richards, later charged with possession of drugs together with Mick Jagger

March:

Pink Floyd release: "Arnold Layne" / "Candy and a Currant Bun"
Release of the cover "Hey Joe" with the Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Soft Machine relase of "Love Makes Sweet Music"
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" (US Chart)
Release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Purple Haze" / "51st Anniversary"
Steve Winwood are quitting the Spencer Davis Group and form Traffic with James Capaldi, David Mason, and Christopher Wood
Cream and The Who on US tour
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - "Sock It To Me-Baby!" (US Chart)
Pink Floyd start recording at EMI's Abbey Road Studios for the first album
The Move release: "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" / "Wave the Flag and Stop the Train"
The Beatles are photographed for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band cover artwork
Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire(first time) during a concert in London. He is taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands

April:

Release of The Yardbirds: "Little Games" / "Puzzles"
The Herd release: "I Can Fly" / "Diary of a Narcissist"
David Bowie release: "The Laughing Gnome" / "The Gospel According to Tony Day"
Release of The Pink Floyds: "See Emily Play" / "Scarecrow"
The Artwoods release : "What Shall I Do" / "In the Deep End"
The Who release : "Pictures of Lily" / "Doctor, Doctor"
The Move's new album master tapes are stolen from their car
The concert "14-Hour Technicolour Dream" with, among others,: the Who, the Pink Floyd, Move, Soft Machine, Tomorrow, the Social Deviants, the Creation, the Pretty Things at Alexandra Palace

May:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience release: "The Wind Cries Mary" / "Highway Chile"
Release of The Kinks: "Waterloo Sunset" / "Act Nice and Gentle"
Procol Harums "A Whiter Shade of Pale" / "Lime Street Blues" is released, with five weeks chart topping
The stolen master tapes of the Move's next album is found in the North of London
Traffic release: "Paper Sun" / "Giving to You"
The Brian Wilson project "Smile" is stopped by the record company after a year of composing.

June:

Cream release : "Strange Brew" / "Tales of Brave Ulysses"
Scott McKenzie - "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" (US Chart)
Procol Harum made their concert debut at the Saville Theatre, London
Doors "Light My Fire" hits no. 1 in the WKNR list(US)
Jefferson Airplane - "Somebody To Love" (US Chart)
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum no.1 in the UK charts
Monterey Pop Festival( Monterey, California), the first large scale outdoor rock music festival, three days of music with bands like: the Electric Flag; Big Brother and the Holding Company(Janice Joplin), Booker T. and the MGs; the Byrds; the Jeffereson Airplane, the Blues Project; the Who; Jimi Hendrix Experience etc
BBC radio banned the track "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles for drug references in the text
The Beatles perform "All You Need Is Love" in the first worldwide television broadcast

July:

The Beatles release: "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby You're a Rich Man"
Release of Jeff Beck Groups, "Tallyman" / "Rock My Plimsoul"
Robert Plant release: "Long Time Coming"
Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit" (US Chart)
Jazz giant John Coltrane dies, only 40 years old, in a hospital in New York of a liver compliant.
The Doors - "Light My Fire" (US Chart)

August:

The Small Faces release: "Itchycoo Park" / "I'm Only Dreaming"
The Flower Pot Men: "Let's Go to San Francisco, Parts I and II"
David Bowie release: "Love You Till Tuesday" / "Did You Ever Have a Dream"
Release of the Herds: "From the Underworld" / "Sweet William"
Pink Floyd German tour is abandoned when Syd vanishes
The National Jazz and Blues Festival(three days) with acts like: the Small Faces, the Move, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Nice, Timebox, Ten Years After, Aynsley Dunbar Retalliation, Donovan, Cream, Jeff Beck, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Chicken Shack, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck etc.
Release of the Rolling Stones: "We Love You" / "Dandelion"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" / "The Stars that Play .."
The Beatles meets Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Traffic release: "Hole in My Shoe" / "Smiling Phases
The Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies

September:

In September the 4th Jimi Hendrix Experience made two concerts(Stora Scenen and Dans In) at Grona Lund in Stockholm, my brother(Bjorn Hassel) was at the concert!!
The Move: "Flowers in the Rain" / "The Lemon Tree" is released
The Mothers of Invention to tour Britain for the first time, debut at the Royal Albert Hall
Procol Harum release: "Homburg" / "Good Captain Clack"
The Doors appear on the Ed Sullivan show and performes "Light My Fire", they were banned from the show when Jim Morrison didn't changed the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher"

October:

Pink Floyd to tour US for the first time. Among the concerts, three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco
The Who: "I Can See For Miles" / "Someone's Coming" is released
Blossom Toes release: "Look at Me I'm You" / "What on Earth"
Pink Floyd appear on Dick Clark's show, miming to "See Emily Play" but Syd doesn't lyp-synch
Creation: "Life Is Just Beginning" / "Through My Eyes" is released
Eric Burdon and the Animals: "San Franciscan Nights" / "Gratefully Dead"

November:

Rolling Stone Magazine is launched, San Francisco
Release of the Moody Blues: "Nights in White Satin" / "Cities"
Pink Floyd U.K. tour supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience, some of the gigs Syd doesn't show up or cannot play
Jule Driscoll with Biran Auger and the Trinity release: "Save Me"
Pink Floyd: "Apples and Oranges" / "Paint Box" is released
Release of the Beatles: "Hello Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus", their 13th No. 1 single
Traffic: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" / "Coloured Rain" release
The Rolling Stones release: "She's A Rainbow" / "2000 Light Years from Home"

December:

The Small Faces release: "Tin Soldier" / "I Feel Much Better"
The Herd: "Paradise Lost" / "Come on—Believe Me" is released
Dave Mason is leaving Traffic
Otis Redding dies in plane crash, two days after recording "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"

Misc:

Summer: "The Summer of Love" starts in San Francisco
Ted Nugent's, Iggy Pop's and Blue Oyster Cult's musical career begins
Kurt Cobain is born(February 20 )
Scott Weiland(Stone Temple Pilots) is born(October 27)

In Sweden:

"Asoka", formed in Malmoe under the name "Taste of Blues"
"Atlantic Ocean" is formed, with members later in many of the bands to come to rule the swedish progressive scene, like "Flasket Brinner", "Baltik", "Jason Fleece", among the members; Bengt Dahlén - guitar, Bjoern J:son Lindh - flute/sax/.., Sten Bergman - Organ, piano..
The Club Filip is opened in the autumn in Stockholm, a place for bands that played psychedelic/progressive music. For example: "Baby Grand Mothers", "Mecki Mark Men", "Parson Sound" among others
"Baby Grandmothers" is formed in september 1967 at the club Filip in Stockholm
"Mecki Mark Men"(Stockholm) released their first album