| features in: Album Chart of 1968 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
This was a very fine debut album from the London quintet who lined up: Keith West (vocals); Steve Howe (guitar); John Wood (bass); John Alder (percussion) and Mark P. Wirtz (keyboards). The recordings were some 9 months old by the time the album saw release in February ’68 – by then the psychedelic thing was becoming unfashionable. It should have been issued to co-incide with the big single, “My White Bicycle” which had been issued in May ’67. A slow-moving, uninterested record company put paid to those plans. In between the recording and release dates, Tomorrow had recorded the first ever John Peel show session on BBC Radio 1 on 21 September 1967 – at least they were loved in all the right places. The album deserved a much better hearing – it’s consistently good and boasts a bona-fide classic in “My White Bicycle”. According to drummer John 'Twink' Alder, the song was inspired by the 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.” Good news anarchists stories, eh? You don’t see many of them in the common press… just as well we’ve got Rock n Roll news readers to keep us right.
The Jukebox Rebel
23–Dec–2007
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:18]  Tomorrow - My White Bicycle (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Psychedelia |
| A2 | [02:53]  Tomorrow - Colonel Brown (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Psychedelia |
| A3 | [03:17]  Tomorrow - Real Life Permanent Dream (Keith Hopkins) Psychedelia |
| A4 | [02:27]  Tomorrow - Shy Boy (Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess, Mark Wirtz) Pop |
| A5 | [03:50]  Tomorrow - Revolution (Keith Hopkins, Steve Howe) Psychedelia |
| B1 | [03:18]  Tomorrow - The Incredible Journey Of Timothy Chase (Keith Hopkins) Psychedelia |
| B2 | [02:46]  Tomorrow - Auntie Mary’s Dress Shop (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Pop |
| B3 | [03:59]  Tomorrow - Strawberry Fields Forever (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Psychedelia |
| B4 | [02:28]  Tomorrow - Three Jolly Little Dwarfs (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Pop |
| B5 | [04:53] Tomorrow - Now Your Time Has Come [1968] (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Rock |
| B6 | [02:43]  Tomorrow - Hallucinations (Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins) Psychedelia |
