Timeline Sunday 18 June 1967

Events on Sunday 18 June 1967 4

• 1967 Monterey Pop Festival Landmark rock festival launches the Summer of Love The three-day festival in California featured breakout performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who, and is widely regarded as the event that brought countercultural rock music to mainstream attention. It served as a template for later festivals including Woodstock.
• 1967 Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire at Monterey Monterey Pop Festival His American breakthrough, introduced by Brian Jones.
• 1967 Ravi Shankar plays the Monterey Pop Festival Afternoon set A rapt audience at the pop festival.
• 1967 The Who play the Monterey Pop Festival American breakthrough Their instrument-destroying finale stuns the American audience.