Psychedelia 66-67

LSD was first synthesized in 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann, who had no idea at the time the impact this would have on popular culture decades later. The mind altering/expanding effect of the drug was to have a profound effect on pop music in the 1960s, when a generation of artists experimented, changing the sound, look and culture. Heads of the pack the The Beatles, whose 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would re-write the rulebook, pushing the album format forward as the key statement for musical artists. The effect of the phenomenon would last beyond the 1960s. Here is a selection of the bands who took the first trip into the unknown. Psychedelia 1.01 as it were...

Featuring The Byrds, The Beatles, Love, The Doors, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, The Soft Machine, The Who and The Rolling Stones.