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distinguish2| Toomorrow (disambiguation) Refimprove|date=May 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Tomorrow| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = London, England| instrument =| genre = Psychedelic rock | occupation =| years_active = March 1967 � April 1968| label = EMI / Parlophone , Harvest Records|Harvest Heritage , Sire Records|Sire | associated_acts = Yes (band)|Yes | website =| current_members =| past_members = Keith West Steve Howe (guitarist)|Steve Howe Junior Wood|John "Junior" Wood Twink (musician)|John "Twink" Alder | notable_instruments = Tomorrow (previously known as The In Crowd and before that as Four Plus One ) were a 1960s psychedelic Rock and Roll|rock band. Despite critical acclaim and support from DJ John Peel who featured them on his " The Perfumed Garden (radio show)|Perfumed Garden " radio show, the band was not a great success in commercial terms. They were among the first psychedelic bands in England along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine . Tomorrow recorded the first ever John Peel show session on BBC Radio 1 on 21 September 1967.
History
Film director Michelangelo Antonioni intended to feature the band in his 1966 film Blowup , but instead used The Yardbirds . However Tomorrow did appear in the 1967 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 Citation needed|date=December 2011.
The band released two singles, one of which, " My White Bicycle ", was later covered by Hard rock|heavy rock act Nazareth (band)|Nazareth , and as a novelty record by Neil the Hippy ( Nigel Planer ) of The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones Situation comedy|TV series . According to drummer Twink (musician)|John 'Twink' Alder , the song was inspired by the Provo (movement)|Dutch Provos , an anarchist group in Amsterdam which instituted a community bicycle program : "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." http://members.tripod.com/pink_fairies/tomorrow.html Tomorrow
Tomorrow's September 1967 single " Revolution (Hopkins/Howe song)|Revolution " preceded The Beatles song " Revolution (song)|Revolution " by a year. In Joe Boyd 's book White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s he asserts that the band's performance of the song one night at the UFO Club as the apotheosis of the 60s UK underground . http://punkcast.com/1129 PUNKCAST#1129 Video of 'White Bicycles' reading in NYC, Mar 28 2007.
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. Guitar ist Steve Howe (guitarist)|Steve Howe later joined progressive rock band Yes (band)|Yes , whilst Twink joined The Pretty Things on their concept album , S.F. Sorrow , before forming The Pink Fairies .
Band members
Keith West : vocals
Steve Howe (guitarist)|Steve Howe : electric and acoustic guitars
Junior Wood|John "Junior" Wood : bass guitar
Twink (musician)|John 'Twink' Alder : drum s
Discography
Singles
As The In Crowd :Dan Hedges, Yes London Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981, pp 142
"That's How Strong My Love Is" / "Things She Says" (single, Parlophone R5276, April 1965) - UK Singles Chart|UK #48cite book
| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 268
"Why Must They Criticise" / "I Don't Mind" (single, Parlophone R5364, November 1965)
"Stop, Wait A Minute" / "You're On Your Own" (single, Parlophone R5328, September 1965)
As Tomorrow :
" My White Bicycle " / "Claramount Lake" (single, Parlophone R5597, May 1967)
" Revolution (Hopkins/Howe song)|Revolution " (Hopkins/Howe) / "Three Jolly Little Dwarves" (single, Parlophone R5627, September 1967)
Albums
As Tomorrow :
Tomorrow (Tomorrow album)|Tomorrow ( Parlophone , February 1968)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/t/tomorrow BBC John Peel - Tomorrow
http://nfte.org/interviews/SH230.html 1999 Interview with Steve Howe, talking about his days with Tomorrow
UK underground DEFAULTSORT:Tomorrow Category:English rock music groups Category:Psychedelic musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 1967 Category:Parlophone artists
