OTD 1966, The made-for TV Monkees' first album was released. The show it promoted marked the culmination of a year of conflict over the idea of authenticity in pop. The Prefab Four would soon chafe against their roles to become a "real" band.
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OTD in 1968: Tom Wilson was profiled in The New York Times Magazine, depicted as the epitome of the successful, hip record producer. Near the end of the piece, we’re told how he confronted a racist cab driver on the street in New York.

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OTD in 1968: Tom Wilson was profiled in The New York Times Magazine as the epitome of the successful, hip record producer. Near the end of the piece we’re told how he confronted a racist cab driver on the street in New York.

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On this day in 1966, The Monkees premiered, a hit TV show about a rock band trying to make it (from the cast of which a "real" rock band would emerge).

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Released Sept. 1965: Producer Tom Wilson added jangly electric instruments to Simon & Garfunkel's folksong, "The Sound of Silence," turning it into a folk-rock record and a massive hit.

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Sept. 6, 1978: record producer Tom Wilson died at 47. One of the last albums he (co-)produced (with Larry Fallon) was Bridges by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson (1977). (He and Fallon had also been working on an R&B opera, Mind Flyers of Gondwana.)

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