1968 in music
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1967 in music ,
other events of 1968 ,
1969 in music , 1960s in music and the
list of 'years in music'
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 patents its "Flying V" electric guitar design
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 1 - Priscilla Presley gives birth to Elvis ' only child, Lisa Marie at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee .
February 1 - Universal Studios offers the Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film. The film is never made.
February 10 - The Beatles shut down "Beatles U.S.A.", their fan club and business office in the United States . The band also fires their US press agents and withdraw from Brian Epstein 's NEMS Enterprises . The band then turns all business affairs over to the newly formed record company, Apple
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 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 episode of The Monkees 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 6 - The Beatles ' new record company, and management and publishing firm, Apple Corps Ltd. , opens offices in London
April 29 - The rock musical Hair opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater
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
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
August - Blind Faith is formed, which includes Eric Clapton , and Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic .
Summer - Simon and Garfunkel , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Janis Joplin and John Sebastian give live concert at Shea Stadium in New York City as campaign benefit for Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy
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 fite in Hendersonville, Tennessee .
October - The "Paul Is Dead " Beatles rumours begin
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 Hair
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 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.
Elvis Presley 's 1968 Comeback Special airs on NBC .
Led Zeppelin is formed after the breakup of The Yardbirds
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
Albums released
Top hits on record
Other singles
Published popular music
Births
January 11 - Tom Dumont , No Doubt
January 14 - L.L. Cool J.
January 27 - Mike Patton , Faith No More
January 28 - Sarah McLachlan
February 1 - Lisa Marie Presley , daughter of Elvis Presley
February 5 - Chris Barron , Spin Doctors
February 7 - Sully Enra , Godsmack
February 12 - Chynna Phillips , Wilson Phillips , daughter of John & Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas
March 8 - Shawn Mullins
March 11 - Lisa Loeb
March 23 - Damon Albarn , Blur
March 26 - James Iha , Smashing Pumpkins
March 30 - Céline Dion
April 3 - Sebastian Bach , Skid Row
April 29 - Carnie Wilson , Wilson Phillips , daughter of Brian Wilson
May 1 - D'Arcy Wretzky , The Smashing Pumpkins
May 28 - Kylie Minogue , Australian actress and singer
June 12 - Bobby Sheehan , Blues Traveler
August 10 - Michael Bivins , New Edition , Bell Biv Devoe
August 11 - Charlie Sexton
September 10 - Big Daddy Kane
September 11 - Kay Hanley , Letters To Cleo
September 12 - Larry LaLonde , Primus
September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones
October 1 - Kevin Griffin , Better Than Ezra
October 7 - Toni Braxton
October 7 - Thom E. Yorke , Radiohead
October 11 - Jane Krakowski , actress and singer
October 17 - Ziggy Marley
November 21 - Alex James , Blur
November 28 - Dawn Robinson , En Vogue
November 29 - Martin Carr , Boo Radleys
December 2 - Nate Mendel , Foo Fighters
December 9 - Brian Bell , Weezer
December 29 - Glen Phillips , Toad The Wet Sprocket
Deaths
Awards
