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 ...

MONTEREY — It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips’s living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly ...

After recording his debut album and making his name in England, Jimi Hendrix set his sights on America. His big moment arrived in mid-June ’67, when Hendrix was to perform on the final night of the ...

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 ...

The incendiary end to Jimi Hendrix's iconic show at 1967's Monterey Pop Fest will be memorialized in bobblehead form with the Jimi Hendrix Live at Monterey bobblehead. The official collectible is soon ...

One of the greatest mismatches in rock history took place in July 1967 when the Jimi Hendrix Experience embarked on a massive U.S. tour opening for the Monkees — and promptly ended eight days later, ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been more than 54 years since Jimi Hendrix memorably ...

With nearly 60 years of hindsight, having the Jimi Hendrix Experience open for the Monkees back in 1967 was clearly not a good idea. Then again, it should have seemed so at the time — but not to Micky ...

A crowd estimated in the tens of thousands gathered at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California in June 1967 for the Monterey International Pop Festival, a three-day extravaganza. Today ...