The year was 1966. What was happening in San Francisco was in the news all over the world.
There were new words "hippie" and "flower power".
Some music critics claim that rock music was at its best in those years -- that it would never be better than the music that was created by the artists of the mid to late 1960's. The band that held the #1 position for that two week period in mid-June 1966 was from the other side of the ocean.
The guys in this band were known as that "other" super group from England. Despite their European origins, the monster hit song was recorded in Hollywood and it featured an Indian sitar, one of the first rock songs to do so. One music critic, upon hearing the record, described it as "a glorious Indian raga-riot that will send this group back to #1." He was right of course!
It is time to re-live those heady days of yesterday. To see the original artists perform the very song that took them to the top of the charts 45 years ago, simply click on the vintage TV.
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