Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968.

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

" However, these comments overlook the fact that Parsons, like Kelley, was considered a bona fide member of the band during 1968 and as such, was given equal billing alongside McGuinn, Hillman, and Kelley on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album and in contemporary press coverage of the band.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

The psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft ( who shortened their name to Lovecraft and then Love Craft in the 1970s ) who released the H. P. Lovecraft and H. P. Lovecraft II albums in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

The band completed the Scandinavian tour as The New Yardbirds, playing together for the first time in front of a live audience at Gladsaxe Teen Clubs in Gladsaxe, Denmark, on 7 September 1968.

Grant secured an advance deal of $ 200, 000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, which was then one of biggest deals of its kind for a new band.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

Phasing was, by 1967, heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia, and as " Rainbow Chaser " was the only Nirvana single to achieve commercial success, peaking at number 34 in UK Singles Chart during May 1968, they were invariably tagged as a " psychedelic " band.

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

Around the time of the student riots in 1968, Vangelis founded progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child together with Demis Roussos, Loukas Sideras, and Anargyros " Silver " Koulouris.

* December 11 – Lynn Strait, vocalist for band Snot ( b. 1968 )

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

In 1968, guitarist Brian May, a student at London's Imperial College, and bassist Tim Staffell decided to form a band.

That album, the appropriately titled Goodbye, was recorded in late 1968 and released in early 1969, after the band had broken up.

Initially another double album was planned, comprising live material from this tour plus new studio tracks, but a single album, Goodbye was released instead with three live tracks taken from their performance at The Forum in Los Angeles on 19 October 1968, and three studio tracks, one written by each of the band members.

* Colosseum ( band ), a British progressive jazz-rock band formed in 1968

On January 27, 1968, Beefheart achieved one of his most memorable live performances, when the band performed in the MIDEM Music Festival on the beach at Cannes, France.

He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.

* Stress ( song ), the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, performed in Norwegian by Odd Børre

CBC live television coverage of the event noted that, when Prince Charles saluted, he performed the Canadian form of the salute with a cupped hand ( the British " naval salute "— appropriate, as he did his military service as an officer in the Royal Navy ), adopted by all elements of the Canadian Forces after unification in 1968, rather than the British ( Army ) form with the palm facing forward.

* Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eliahu Inbal and featuring Claudio Arrau on piano ( UK: Philips, 1968 ).

Although the existence of ancient tombs in the village of Silwan had been known since the 19th century, the first careful survey was not performed until 1968.

In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.

The 5th Dimension performed " Sweet Blindness " on Frank Sinatra's 1968 TV special " Sinatra Does His Thing " and sang " Workin ' On A Groovy Thing " and " Wedding Bell Blues " on Woody Allen's " The Woody Allen Special " in 1969.

Paul McCartney did this twice: Once on " Blackbird " in 1968 & once in 1989 on " Distractions " ( Flowers in the Dirt ), where McCartney, following the metronome's regular beat, performed the whole rhythm track by hitting various parts of his own body.

In 1968 Norman wrote several songs for the rock musical Alison, which was performed in Los Angeles, and Birthday for Shakespeare, also performed in Los Angeles.

He also performed the Ron Goodwin title song to the 1968 comedy-adventure Monte Carlo or Bust sung over the film's animated opening credits.

In 1968, a Johnson work titled Diversions was commissioned by the American Wind Symphony and performed in Pittsburgh.

The wing performed strategic reconnaissance in Southeast Asia beginning in 1968, frequently deploying the SR-71 to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa where it operated over areas of the Pacific and Asia.

British Decca released on LP, in 1968, the most complete version of Man of La Mancha ever put on vinyl records, a 2-LP album featuring most of the dialogue and all of the songs, performed by the show's original London cast.

She performed on Broadway twice ( in 1967 and 1968 ) and won a special Tony Award in 1968.

The band performed as part of the protests against the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that were broken up by a police riot.

The 1968 follow-up LP, In Search of the Lost Chord included " Legend of a Mind ", a song written by Ray Thomas in tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary which encompassed a flute solo performed by Thomas – four members of the group had taken LSD together at the start of 1967.

* Skidoo ( 1968 ) songs written and performed, soundtrack music composer, actor ( bit role )

The children's television programme Sounds Exciting, broadcast in 1968, was a musical education series culminating in a final " whodunit " called Dead in Tune with Robin Ray's original story set to the music of Herbert Chappell performed by a chamber group of players from the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra.

William Edward John ( November 15, 1937-May 26, 1968 ), better known by his stage name Little Willie John, was an American R & B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Over a hundred were performed in 1968 – 69, but almost all the patients died within sixty days.

In 1968 surgical pioneer Denton Cooley performed seventeen transplants, including the first heart-lung transplant.

Warwick performed the song, and when the film became a success in the early weeks of 1968, disc jockeys flipped the single and made the single one of the biggest double-sided hits of the rock era and another million seller.