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They played early on the bill as they had to play at Norwich Boys Club that evening.

The Nice's set included Keith Emerson's knife-throwing acrobatics during 'Rondo'.

TRAFFIC, THE NICE, PRETTY THINGS, THE ACTION, JUNIORS EYES

Pink Floyd closed the show with tracks from new album 'A Saucerful Of Secrets', including concert highlight 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun', which Roy Harper joined in on tympani.

David Stark recalls: "I didn't know too much about them, except that Bolan was already becoming a bit of cult figure at my school, especially with the bods who were also into Lord of The Rings."

Tyrannosaurus Rex (Marc Bolan and Steve Took) had just charted with their debut single 'Deborah'.

They had also opened for political folk troubadour Roy Harper, who like Tull's lead singer/flautist Ian Anderson, also hailed from Blackpool.

Jethro Tull opened the first-ever concert at the suggestion of Pink Floyd, whom they had recently supported at Sheffield University.

PINK FLOYD, TYRANNOSAURUS REX, ROY HARPER, JETHRO TULL A year after 1967's explosion of flower-power, the sounds, smells and love wafting from Hyde Park were to keep London's hippies, freaks and music fans rocking and 'head' dancing on a semi-regular basis for the next summers until 1976. Disc jockey and MC Jeff Dexter - instantly recognisable by his long blonde hair and spectacles - span the records between the bands and kept everyone in a groovy mood.

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The tiny makeshift wooden stage was actually owned by the park having previously been used by a troupe of highland dancers.Īmplification for most of the shows was provided free of charge by Charlie Watkins and John Thompson of WEM, while stage management was looked after by Ian Knight and Hugh Price's 'Implosion' team at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, the new location for London's legendary Middle Earth underground club. After obtaining permission from the Ministry of Works, with the help of Arts Minister Jenny Lee and Labour party member Ben Pimlott, the first concert was held by the Serpentine's natural amphitheatre area, the Cockpit. The original idea for staging shows in the park was conceived by promoters (and Floyd's first managers) Peter Jenner and Andrew King of Blackhill enterprises, when they spotted a brass band playing at the old bandstand.

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Together Stark and Dexter have researched the history, line-ups and some of the stories behind every one of the 16 free concerts which took place from 1967 - plus the "one that got away", a spectacular that was to headlined by Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Grateful Dead in 1969 but which was cancelled at the eleventh hour. Jeff Dexter was the DJ and master of ceremonies at most of the concerts in Hyde Park, being a seminal figure on London's underground music scene of the 60's. Music industry veteran David Stark attended that first concert as a 15-year old schoolboy, just a couple of weeks before he gate-crashed the world premiere of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" film in July '68 and ended up sitting directly behind the Fab Four.

Strictly no unauthorised reproduction without permissionĪS WELL AS MARKING THE LAST-EVER UK PERFORMANCE by The Police, who are set to headline the second day of this weekend's "Hard Rock Calling" in Hyde Park, the date of Sunday June 29th also marks another milestone anniversary in rock history: it will be 40 years to the day since Pink Floyd headlined the first-ever free concert in Hyde Park on June 29th 1968, along with Tyrannosaurus Rex (aka Marc Bolan), Roy Harper and the up-and-coming Jethro Tull, who hold the honour of being the first band to take the makeshift stage, of which more below. Hard Rock Calling: 40 Years of Rock in Hyde Park