My White Bicycle

"My White Bicycle"
Single by Tomorrow
from the album Tomorrow
B-side"Claramount Lake"
ReleasedMay 1967
GenrePsychedelic rock[1][2]
Length3:17
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess
Producer(s)Mark Wirtz
Tomorrow singles chronology
"My White Bicycle"
(1967) 		"Revolution"
(1967)

"My White Bicycle" is a song written by Keith West and Ken Burgess. It was Tomorrow's debut single.[3]

Background and recording

According to Tomorrow drummer John 'Twink' Alder, the song was inspired by the Dutch Provos, an anarchist group in Amsterdam which instituted a bicycle-sharing system: "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."[4]

The group recorded "My White Bicycle" in Abbey Road studio 1, at the same time as The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in studio 2, and John Lennon entered the studio while Tomorrow were recording. Lennon wrote in the British international music magazine Melody Maker that he considered the song to be the "psychedelic anthem", and the song subsequently became an underground hit.[citation needed]

For the whistle on the track, the band went out into the street in front of Abbey Road Studios and asked a policeman to come in and blow his whistle into the microphone, despite the fact that the band members were all smoking illegal drugs during the session.[5]

Reception

The single failed to break the music charts.[6]

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic wrote that the song was one of the first to prominently feature backward guitar phasing.[7]

Cover versions

References

  1. ^ DeRogatis, Jim (1 January 2003). Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 4. ISBN 0634055488.
  2. ^ Zivkovic, Ljubinko (January 6, 2025). "12 obscure psych-rock songs from the 1960s that deserve a revival". Audio Phix. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
  3. ^ "Tomorrow (2) - My White Bicycle". Discogs. 12 May 1967. Retrieved 28 August 2018. Tomorrow only issued two singles under that name. "My White Bicycle" in May 1967, and "Revolution" released in September that same year
  4. ^ Alder, John C. "Tomorrow". Members.tripod.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ^ Chacksfield, Tim (1999). Tomorrow (Booklet). Parlophone Records Ltd. p. 5.
  6. ^ Joynson, Vernon (1995). The Tapestry of Delights. London: Borderline Books. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. See entry on Tomorrow.
  7. ^ "Tomorrow - Tomorrow | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "NAZARETH | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  9. ^ "NEIL - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.


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