Fact #100722
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Short story:
At the Court House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Judge Robert Taylor sets Jimi Hendrix's trial on drugs charges for 8 December 1969. Hendrix' publicist Michael Goldstein endeavours to kill the story.Full article:
Michael Goldstein : I never minded stories like that being in Rolling Stone or in our own (underground) newspapers. Where it would hurt you was not there, it was in the daily papers across the country, which would make large concert hall promoters close down all your concert dates. I knew that a million dollars was riding on that story not getting on UPI and the AP wire.
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