1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

Here's a playlist of some of my favourite songs from the year 1967. I created it to be listened to alongside my memoir, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left". Details about the book are here: https://www.robynhitchcock.com/1967 “Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock’s ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny,­ finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacri­ficing its sense of the breath-taking sweep of time. I absolutely adored every line of 1967 and every moment I spent reading it.” MICHAEL CHABON ”1967 . . . in which our hero looks down from the future at his squeaky realm of boyhood, a world of dayglo sunsets, and would-be denizens of music and the mind. Cometh the year, cometh the groover.” JOHNNY MARR ”Page Turner could be the name of a lead singer in a sixties psychedelic band, but it’s not – it’s a description of Robyn Hitchcock’s tender and hilarious memoir.” JOE BOYD "Robyn Hitchcock belongs to an almost extinct species, "The Totally Original Artist", once relatively commonplace, now only occasionally glimpsed in the dense tree canopy of the pop rainforest. Mysterious, elusive, a kind of rock 'n' roll olingo... 1967 presents his many fans with a tantalising print-bite of how he wound up in those trees and in so doing (whether he likes it or not) became a National Treasure."  NICK LOWE