Psychedelic pop-rock band The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s memorable single “Incense and Peppermints” reached the highest heights of the Billboard Hot 100 on November 25, 1967. The song displaced Lulu’s ...

The Strawberry Alarm Clock really shouldn’t be a band that people are talking about, much less writing about, in 2017. The psychedelic rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1967 and had a smash ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Plenty of the ...

The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and Strawberry Alarm Clock have somewhat similar names; however, one did not inspire the other. A member of Strawberry Alarm Clock revealed his band’s name was ...

We often compartmentalize the sunny, jangly sounds of 1960s folk-rock and the gritty, overdriven sound of 1970s Southern rock as two distinct, separate moments in the genre’s history. But it’s a small ...

Ed King of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd has passed away. He was 68. Rolling Stone points out that a cause of death has not yet been revealed, but that King had been battling lung cancer.

Strawberry Alarm Clock to Wake Up Whisky: 1960s psychedelic Glendale living legends the Strawberry Alarm Clock love a show at the Whisky, and it’s always great to see them on that venue’s calendar. It ...

The Strawberry Alarm Clock, of course, is best remembered for their iconic 1967 hit, "Incense and Peppermints." It's well known the song was intended to be only a B side for their "Birdman of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Lee Freeman, a founding member of the 1960s group the Strawberry Alarm ...