Tomorrow (band)

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Tomorrow was a British rock band that played a key role in the development of psychedelic rock in London from 1967-68 . Although they were an attraction as a live band and featured on radio and television, they were denied commercial success.

Steve Howe (guitar), Keith West (vocals), John "Junior" Wood (bass) and John "Twink" Alder (drums) played well-known soul and R&B tracks under the name The In Crowd before they began their own compositions to play and renamed itself "Tomorrow".

In 1966 the group was supposed to appear in the film Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni , but then the Yardbirds were taken instead . Tomorrow, however , starred in the film Smashing Time , where they appeared as "The Snarks"; John Pearce, a clothes dealer, replaced the sick Junior Wood. The score, however, comes from the band Skip Bifferty .

The song My White Bicycle , released as a single in May 1967, was inspired by the Provo scene in Amsterdam , which gave white bicycles for free. The best-known cover version of the piece comes from the hard rock band Nazareth . The music producer Joe Boyd , who brought Tomorrow to the London UFO Club as the successor to Pink Floyd in mid-1967 , used the song title for his 2006 book White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s .

Keith West had a worldwide hit in 1967 with Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (also known as Grocer Jack ) from Mark Wirtz's "Teenage Opera" project . He could not repeat this success. Steve Howe became the guitarist of the art rock group Yes in 1969 . Twink recorded the concept album S. F. Sorrow with the Pretty Things before founding the Pink Fairies .

Discography

  • My White Bicycle / Claramount Lake (Single, Parlophone R5597, May 1967)
  • Revolution / Three Jolly Little Dwarves (Single, Parlophone R5627, September 1967)
  • Tomorrow (album, Parlophone, 1968)
  • 50 Minute Technicolor Dream (Album, RPM 184, 1998)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Steve Howe on "nfte.org" (see web links)
  2. ↑ Joe Boyd: White Bicycles - Music in the 1960s . Verlag Antje Kunstmann, 2007, ISBN 978-3-88897-491-5

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