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During Senate hearings on the music industry, American Guild of Authors and Composers counsel John Schulman plays Yakety Yak by The Coasters, citing it as an offender in the alleged 'cheapening of American music' by rock'n'roll, against which Schulman seeks legislation.
John
Lennon's mother Julia is killed by
a car driven by an off-duty policeman in Liverpool, UK, leaving
Lennon an orphan. He will write the song Julia for her, and it will appear on The Beatles 1968 album, The Beatles, aka The White Album. Lennon will also write
Mother, which will be released on his 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.