Tomorrow (Band)
Tomorrow was a British rock band that was 1967-68 instrumental in the development of psychedelic rock in London. Although they were an attraction as a live band and were presented 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 under the name " The In Crowd " well-known soul and R & B tracks, before they began to play their own compositions, and renamed "Tomorrow".
In 1966, the group should appear in the film Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, but then the Yardbirds were instead taken. Tomorrow, however, were seen in the film Smashing Time, where they performed as "The Snarks "; John Pearce, a clothes dealer, replaced the diseased Junior Wood. However, the film music was written by the band Skip Bifferty.
The song My White Bicycle, released as a single in May 1967, was inspired by the Provo scene that turned white free use of bicycles in Amsterdam. The best known cover version of the piece comes from the hard rock band Nazareth. The music producer Joe Boyd, the mid-1967 Tomorrow picked as the successor to Pink Floyd at London's UFO Club, used the song title to be published in 2006 the book White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s.
Keith West had a worldwide hit with 1967 Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (also known as Grocer Jack ) from the "Teenage Opera " project by Mark Wirtz. He could not repeat that success. Steve Howe later became the guitarist of the Artrockgruppe Yes. Twink took the Pretty Things on SF Sorrow, the concept album before he founded the Pink Fairies.
Discography
- My White Bicycle / Clara Mountlake (Single, Parlophone R5597 May 1967)
- Revolution / Three Jolly Little Dwarves (Single, Parlophone R5627, September 1967 )
- Tomorrow (Album, Parlophone, 1968)
- 50 minutes Technicolor Dream (Album, RPM 184, 1998)