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“Monterey” is a 1967 song by Eric Burdon & The Animals, with music and lyrics by the group’s members, Eric Burdon, John Weider, Vic Briggs, Danny McCulloch, and Barry Jenkins. In 1968, two different video clips of the song were aired.
Other than lead singer Burdon and recent drummer holdover Jenkins, the band that recorded and released “Monterey” was an entirely separate mid-1960s band known as The Animals. Burdon transformed himself from a hard-driving bluesman to his own version of psychedelia. The new Burdon and band appeared at the famed 1967 Monterey Pop Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California at the peak of the Summer of Love; they followed Johnny Rivers onstage and were introduced by Chet Helms. In his book, Monterey Pop, Joel Selvin wrote that, at the festival, “Burdon did nothing short of reinvent himself in front of the audience.”
The song “Monterey” was subsequently written in tribute to the group’s experiences at the festival, and proved to be…