The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream

THE 14 HOUR TECHNICOLOR DREAM
 
 
The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream  was a concert held in the Great Hall of the Alexandra Palace, London, on 29 April 1967.  The fund-raising concert for the counterculture paper International Times was organised by Barry Miles, John “Hoppy” Hopkins, David Howson, Mike McInnerney and Jack Henry Moore.  It was part-documented by Peter Whitehead in a film called Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
 
 

Mick Farren’s early writing was for one of the first underground newspapers, International Times (later called IT after threats of litigation by The Times of London); he wrote articles for the newspaper and also edited IT for a period of time.  The newspaper was founded in November 1966 and was a mixture of rock music promotion, polemical journalism, and scandalous humor.  The London police repeatedly raided the newspaper's office in an attempt to shut them down; IT responded by hosting a benefit rock concert called The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream in April 1967 featuring Pink Floyd, the Pretty Things, Savoy Brown, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, and the Move.

 
(March 2014/1)
 
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Sam Gopal’s Dream performed at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, the benefit concert mentioned earlier for the International Times underground newspaper, and also at the UFO Club.  To date, the recordings made by Sam Gopal’s Dream for Screen Gems Records in 1967 remain unreleased. 

 

(March 2014/2)