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Sheet music for the song Man, Man, Fickle Man! - from the musical The Sultan of Sulu, is given away free in the music supplement of Hearst's Chicago American Newspaper, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Sheet Music for the song My Own, My Gipsy Bride, written by W.W. Hall and Marion Ivel, is presented free in the music supplement of Hearst's Chicago American newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
It is reported that "The musical publishing house of Carl Hoffman has been sold for $10,000 to the Whitney-Warner publishing company of Detroit, and Harry Kelly, whose 'Peaceful Henry' slow drag was the most important composition included in the sale, has been offered a fine position by the Detroit company. He will go there to-night to see about it."
Tiptoe Through The Tulips by The Don Voorhees Orchestra is released as the Durium Hit Of The Week on newspaper stands in New York City, USA at a cost of 15c, twenty percent of the price of an ordinary shellac record.
Robert Sandall is born in Pinner, London, England, UK. He will become one of the UK's most respected rock and pop music critics, writing for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and others, but also co-presenting BBC Radio 3's Mixing It and contributing to the Late Junction programme.
Louis Armstrong appears on the cover of influential jazz magazine Downbeat in the USA, under the headline "Louis Enters Hall Of Fame". On the same evening, Armstrong throws a party at his home in Queens, new York City, USA. During the party, a woman, Lillian Friedlander, sings I Can't Afford To Miss The Dream. Armstrong tapes her performance and subsequently convinces Decca Records to let him record it.UK popular music newspaper Melody Maker reports that US bandleader and recording artist Earl Bostic has recovered from his recent heart attack.
Chess Records of Chicago, Illinois, USA, releases a statement to the press declaring that Chuck Berry has been acquitted of all charges, relating to the transportation of a 14-year-old Indian girl from El Paso, Texas, to St. Louis, Missouri, for immoral purposes.
A feature about the censorship of pop singles runs in UK pop weekly newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] under the headline 'Does Banning Death Pop Songs Make t hem Too Important?'Pierre Salinger, the US Presidential Press Secretary, officially denies that anyone danced The Twist in The White House, Washington DC, USA, during a party there on the previous Saturday night.
Mahalia Jackson headlines The National Press Club's Black Tie Ball in Washington DC, USA. Also on the bill are Sammy Kaye's Swing And Sway Band and torch singer Elvira Rios.The Flares [aka The Flairs] release a new dance-craze single, Doing The Hully Gully, on Press Records in the USA.
An editorial in UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph addresses The Beatles' phenomenon with the words, "Is there not something a bit frightening in whole masses of young people, all apparently so suggestible, so volatile and rudderless? What material here for the maniac's shaping? Hitler would have disapproved, but he could have seen what, in other circumstances, might be made of it."UK newspaper The Evening Standard reveals that Bill Wyman, bassist of The Rolling Stones, is a married man!
The Beatles touch down in Darwin, Australia, then fly on to Sydney where they hold a press conference in the Sheridan Hotel. Meanwhile, in London, UK, their drummer Ringo Starr is discharged from University College Hospital and will shortly re-join the group.
In UK pop weekly newspaper Melody Maker, Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones criticises the rising wave of folk and folk-rock artists as "folk-fakers".
Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at the Community Theater, Berkeley, California, USA. During the day, he holds a press conference at KQED-tv Studios, San Francisco. In the course of the press conference he categorises himself as "a song and dance man".
A 'psychedelic' image of John Lennon of The Beatles adorns the cover of today's edition of Look magazine in the USA. The picture is taken by celebrated fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon.A feature in the current edition of Newsweek magazine in the USA declares that The Bosstown Sound - a largely manufactured scene based on bands from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, is the latest music industry craze. Bands deemed to be part of the craze are The Beacon Street Union, Orpheus, The Phluph and The Ultimate Spinach, but none of those bands will achieve lasting success.
Today's edition of UK music paper Record Mirror includes a round-up of recently-released cover-versions of Bob Dylan songs, including You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by The Byrds and This Wheel's On Fire by Julie Driscoll with the Brian Auger Trinity. The feature also mentions two further versions of You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, one by Unit 4 + 2 and another by Paul McNeill And Linda Peters. Others in the list include Too Much Of Nothing by Peter, Paul And Mary, Down In The Flood by Earl Scruggs, I Shall be Released by both Marc Ellington and Boz, and an instrumental treatment of The Mighty Quinn by Fuzz Face.
Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Black Music magazine. The feature will run in September with the headline 'Jimi Hendrix - Is His Music Black Or White?'
Setting off from BBC tv studios, Lime Grove, London, England, UK, Europe, The Who tour London in a vintage French bus to promote their next single, Magic Bus.
Asked if The Rolling Stones are subversive, their guitarist Keith Richards replies, "Of course we are subversive but, if they really believe you can start a revolution with a record, they are wrong."
In Rolling Stone magazine, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin claims to be the prize most sought after by groupies. "They all say I'm the best," he modestly admits.UK rock weekly newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] announces that Kiki Dee has become the first British female to be signed by Motown Records in the USA.
An un-named caller to underground radio station WKNR in Detroit, Michigan, USA, urges deejay Russ Gibb to listen to
Revolution
9 by The Beatles backwards. When Russ plays it on the air, listeners claim to hear the words 'Turn me on, dead man'. This becomes an early 'clue' in the Paul
Is Dead myth.
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The Band appear on the cover of prestigious magazine Time in the USA.John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a press conference in New York City, USA, at which they announce the creation of Nutopia, a 'conceptual' country governed by 'cosmic' laws and whose national anthem is three seconds of silence.
It is announced via a press release that Thin Lizzy will split after releasing a new album and undertaking a final tour.
Wham! play at Queen’s Hall, Leeds, England, UK, Europe. While in Leeds, George Michael tells Smash Hits journalist Chris Heath that he feels trapped and frightened.
Bruce Springsteen is featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine No442 in the USA.
UK music paper Melody Maker reports that Pete Townshend is promoting a printed directory which lists organizations concerned with helping drug abusers.
Suggs of UK hitmaking 2-Tone band Madness denies allegations (in The Sun newspaper a week earlier) that he has racist sympathies.An official press release states that founding member Roger Waters has quit Pink Floyd, but the group will continue.
UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror reveals that Elton John has long been worried about AIDS and has been tested for it many times.
During a press conference in Los Angeles, California, USA, Paul McCartney suggests that the surviving three members of The Beatles should re-unite, but he is quickly rebuffed by George Harrison who states that, "there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is inteviewed by jazz historian Evan Spring at his home in New Jersey, USA. The interview will be broadcast on WKCR-FM to promote Jarrett's upcoming concert at The Town Hall, New York City, with his 'Standards Trio'. 
In an interview in UK tabloid newspaper The Sun, David Bowie tells Dominic Mohan that he is refusing to accept a knighthood from the Queen - unlike his contemporary Sir Mick Jagger.During a BBC-tv documentary, The Death of Kiss and Tell, Pete Doherty compares the world's
press to the Nazis who oversaw the holocaust.
Everybody Hurts by Helping Haiti, an all-star supergroup including Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis and Kylie Minogue, goes to no1 in the UK singles chart. The record, a cover of an R.E.M. original, is raising funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and British newspaper The Sun's Helping Haiti campaign, and was organised by tv music mogul Simon Cowell.The Universal Sigh, a free newspaper created by Radiohead to coincide with the physical release of their album The King Of Limbs, is launched in the UK at noon with three special events in London, Manchester and Glasgow.
While in Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia, during his My World tour, Justin Bieber criticises paparazzi photographers whose intrusive working methods have prevented him from exploring the country with his family.
Surf guitar pioneer Adele is named Entertainer Of The Year by the Associated Press, coming in at No1 ahead of Taylor Swift and Psy in the poll which is voted for by 137 editors and broadcasters employed by the global news service.
Katy Perry is harassed by Australian papparazzi while taking a walk on Obelisk Beach in Sydney, Australia.
Jorma Kaukonen, guitarist of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, publishes his autobiography, Been So Long: My Life and Music, through St. Martin's Press.
Journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet Nick Tosches dies aged 69 at his home in Manhattan, New York City, USA, having been unwell for some time. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."Robert Freeman, a hugely respected photographer who shot five consecutive album covers for The Beatles, dies aged 82.
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