The Banana LP,
Andy Warhol
January Syd Barrett’s last performance with Pink Floyd...March Angry demonstrators try to storm the American Embassy in London after a rally protesting against the Vietnam War... May Thousands of students, supported by striking workers, fight the police in Paris. At the London School of Economics and other universities and art colleges, students take over the college buildings. Meanwhile, Moscow moves Soviet troops to the Czech border, alarmed by the liberalisation of Czechoslovakia under the Communist leader Alexander Dubcek... June ‘Jugband Blues’, Syd Barrett (on A Saucerful of Secrets, Pink Floyd) (single released)...July Soviet and Czech leaders meet at a frontier village to resolve their differences over the ‘Prague Spring’...August 20- 21 The forces of the Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia...September Plastic People of the Universe start up...October Czechoslovakia and USSR sign agreement to allow Soviet troops to remain “temporarily”.