31 Facts About Jill Gibson

Jill Gibson was born on June 18,1942 and is an American singer, songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor.

Jill Gibson was one of the main photographers at the historic Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

Jill Gibson was born in Los Angeles, California on June 18,1942.

Together they wrote over a dozen songs and through Berry, Gibson got more involved with the music scene.

Jill Gibson performed most of the leads on these unreleased demos.

Jill Gibson then recorded two vocal duets with Berry that she had written with Don Altfeld that year, "It's As Easy As 1,2,3" and "A Surfer's Dream".

Jill Gibson often visited in the hospital during his long, difficult recovery.

Later Jill Gibson dated Lou Adler, whom she had known since 1959 when he was the executive producer and manager of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence.

In 2008, Jill Gibson recorded the duet ballad "When It's Over" with Cameron Michael Parkes for the Berry tribute album Encomium In Memoriam Vol.

Occasionally, Jill Gibson would visit Lou Adler in the studio while he was producing the band, who had just begun work on a new album.

Jill Gibson found herself in the right place at the right time when the leader of the group, John Phillips, fired his wife, Michelle Gilliam Phillips, from the band on Saturday, June 4,1966, for having had an affair with Gene Clark of The Byrds.

Jill Gibson was hired two weeks earlier, just before the band left for England.

The single peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 30,1966, while Jill Gibson was a member of the band.

Once Jill Gibson was hired they re-recorded the songs and recorded new tracks with her at Western Studios.

In late August 1966, he decided it would be best to let Jill Gibson go and to reinstate his wife Michelle Phillips.

Jill Gibson was relieved to be free of the chaos that followed the supergroup, but she felt betrayed by John Phillips.

Jill Gibson had been told that her position in the group was permanent.

The album the group recorded with Jill Gibson was pulled by the label to accommodate the return of Michelle Phillips.

The copies with Jill Gibson are valuable collectibles today, and it is believed that anywhere from ten to twenty thousand were issued.

In 2002, Jill Gibson claimed that she recorded ten of the tracks for the second album, while Lou Adler claimed that same year she recorded only six of the songs, one being "Trip, Stumble and Fall".

Session sheets of the recording dates note that Jill Gibson recorded seven songs.

In 2006, Jill Gibson said she still believed her voice remained on many of the songs.

Michelle Phillips claimed she had no idea who sang on the album, while author Matthew Greenwald confirmed in his book that Jill Gibson recorded part of the LP and did, in fact, appear on several tracks on the final released version.

The LP was certified Gold and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart without Jill Gibson receiving a Gold copy herself.

The fourth and final single from the album was "Dancing Bear", featuring Jill Gibson, and peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In June 1967 Jill Gibson attended the first ever Monterey International Pop Festival with Lou Adler, where she was an invited member of the press.

Jill Gibson took the photographs for the psychedelic rock group Fever Tree's self-titled debut album cover and its liner pictures for the band's 1968 LP released on Uni Records.

On that return visit Jill Gibson made her American debut as a painter where her art was showcased for the first time at the DeVorzon Gallery in Hollywood for a week, and such guests as Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Lou Adler, and Michelle Phillips were in attendance.

Lou Adler purchased an original Jill Gibson painting for $450 at the time while Nicholson purchased two originals.

Jill Gibson's developing style as an artist is influenced by her interest in Renaissance art, nature, and the feminine.

Today, Jill Gibson is a full-time artist with her own studio, Gibson Artworks, in Marin.