The Monterey International Pop Festival was held in June 1967 during the Summer of Love in sunny Monterey, California. At the time, Jimi Hendrix’s public profile had risen immensely following the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jimi Hendrix's breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, when he transfixed the American rock cognoscenti with a set that climaxed with the immolation of ...

Before there was Woodstock, there was Monterey International Pop Festival. A groundbreaking moment in music history, the festival took over the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, in ...

I was admittedly not alive when the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival took place in sunny California. However, the footage of the festival has met the eyes (and ears) of several generations after that famed ...

When American music festivals are bandied about, Woodstock scores most of the attention. However, the Monterey Pop Festival laid down the template 55 years ago. “Monterey was the nexus,” Rolling Stone ...

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