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Fact #189625

When:

28091963

Short story:

In a featured interview on the front page of today's edition of Billboard magazine in the USA, Mahalia Jackson criticises what she describes as "pop gospel" music and expresses pleasure that it has not taken off as a major musical style.

Full article:

Mahalia Jackson : America is basically a religious nation and the people didn't want anything contaminating their religion.
(Source : Billboard interview, 28 Sep 1963)