Tomorrow (band)
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Tomorrow (previously known as The In Crowd and before that as Four Plus One) were a 1960s psychedelic rock band. Despite critical acclaim and support from DJ John Peel who featured them on his Perfumed Garden radio show, the band was not a great success in commercial terms.
Film Director Antonioni intended to feature the band in his 1966 film Blowup, but instead used The Yardbirds. However Tomorrow did appear in the 'Swinging London' film Smashing Time under the name of The Snarks. John "Junior" Wood was ill and was replaced by John Pearce, a clothes dealer. Again their music was not used in the film. The rock group sounds used in the film are by Skip Bifferty.
The band released two singles, one of which, "My White Bicycle" was later successfully covered by heavy rock act Nazareth, and as a novelty record by 'Neil the Hippy' (Nigel Planer) of The Young Ones TV series. According to drummer John 'Twink' Alder, the song was actually inspired by the Dutch Provos, an anarchist/situationist group in Amsterdam: they had white bicycles in Amsterdam and they used to leave them around the town. And if you were going somewhere and you needed to use a bike, you'd just take the bike and you'd go somewhere and just leave it. Whoever needed the bikes would take them and leave them when they were done [link]
Tomorrow singer Keith West is perhaps better known as a participant in Mark Wirtz's Teenage Opera project that gave him a solo hit single "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)" and brief commercial success. Guitarist Steve Howe later joined progressive rock band Yes, whilst Twink joined The Pretty Things on their concept album "S.F. Sorrow" before forming The Pink Fairies .
Tomorrow recorded the first ever session for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 on 21 Sep 1967.
Band members
- Steve Howe: electric and acoustic guitars
- Keith West: vocals
- John "Junior" Wood: bass guitar
- John (Twink) Alder: drums
Discography
- "My White Bicycle" / "Claramount Lake" (single, Parlophone R5597, May 1967)
- "Revolution" / "Three Jolly Little Dwarves" (single, Parlophone R5627, September 1967)
- Tomorrow (album, Parlophone 1968)
- 50 Minute Technicolor Dream (album, RPM 184, 1998)
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