“I Can Take You To The Sun” by Misunderstood

The Misunderstood recorded "I Can Take You to the Sun" at Philips Studios in London in 1966, and Fontana put it out that December. Richard Shaw Brown and Tony Hill are the credited writers, and the critics took to it at once. Then the war got in the way: lead singer and harmonica player Rick Brown was drafted for Vietnam, the band was forced to split soon after, and the single was left alone, a flare fired into the dark.

John Peel never let it go. On his BBC Top Gear show he called it the finest popular record ever made, and his Peelennium list of the century's greatest songs put it third for 1966. A 1999 Record Collector piece rated it among the most powerful psychedelic singles ever released, and it has long been counted a psychedelic classic.

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