The Complete Monterey Pop Festival best seller as well as many lyrical

as well as many lyrical lines taken from the work of 19th century poet Henry Timrod

the Staple Singers

festival publicist Derek Taylor

Year of the Monkey “reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source” (Los Angeles Times)

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival best seller as well as many lyricalOn a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decades spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of the performers in a wildly diverse lineup that also included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds,