Kevan Furbank looks at the roots of psychedelic rock and examines the contributions made by some of the biggest bands of the watershed year 1967 ('the Summer of love’), including The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Love, Pink Floyd and The Beach Boys. 

He examines the hits and misses, the successes and failures, the bands that were born to be psychedelic and those that had psychedelia thrust upon them - sometimes with disastrous results. And he shows how the genre planted the seeds for other forms of popular music to take root and flourish.