The Millennium: Biography

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• Sagittarius
• The Groop
• Mortimer
• Michaelangelo
• It's a Beautiful Day
• The Neon Philharmonic
• Disciple

• The Beach Boys
• The 5th Dimension
• The Mamas & the Papas
• Harry Nilsson
• The Left Banke
• Byrds

• Joey Stec
• Curt Boettcher
• Sandy Salisbury
• The Ballroom
• The Goldebriars
• Big Shot
• Crabby Appleton

• Michael Fennelly
• Lee Mallory

Formed:

Jan 1, 1968

Genres:

Classical Music, Oldies Music, Pop Music, Classic Pop Music, Rock Music, Psychedelic Oldies Music

Decades Active:

1960's

Artistic Quality

Low

Cultural Impact

Low

Popularity

Low

Ratings Guide

Influenced by psychedelia and California rock, pop/rock producer Curt Boettcher (the Association) decided to assemble a studio supergroup who would explore progressive sounds in 1968. Millennium's resultant album would find no commercial success and only halfbaked artistic success, but nonetheless retains some period charm. Influenced in roughly equal measures by the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, the Smileera Beach Boys, Nilsson, the Left Banke, and the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his friends came up with a hybrid that was at once too unabashedly commercial for underground FM radio and too weird for the AM dial. It would have fit in better on the AM airwaves, though; the almost toocheerful sunshine harmonies and catchy melodies dominate the suitelike, diverse set of elaborately produced '60s pop/rock tunes.

- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide