Timeline Guthrie, Sgt. Pepper and Cobain

Woody Guthrie wrote This Land Is Your Land in 1940, in the Dust Bowl years. He was still alive on 1 June 1967, when the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper — and in February that year, Kurt Cobain was born.

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1940 Woody Guthrie writes This Land Is Your Land New York An answer to Irving Berlin's God Bless America.
1967 Kurt Cobain born in Aberdeen, Washington Kurt Donald Cobain Born in Aberdeen, a struggling logging town.
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Eighth album — June 1, 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on June 1, 1967 and spent 27 weeks at number 1 in the UK. Considered the pinnacle of the 1960s counterculture, it was the first album to print its lyrics on the sleeve and won four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.
1967 Woody Guthrie dies in New York Aged 55 Dies at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.