2007 Magazine of the Week #17

Maybe I should just start calling it the "Magazine of the Month".....

(.....yeah, I know. Its been two months.....)

Anyway, here's a look at the June 1969 issue of HIT PARADER.

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There's a story on the "Current Problems of THE ROLLING STONES". We learn that BRIAN was "now happily back in the social circulation", and "took a great fancy to the ten-foot-high cut-out of Tiny Tim at the Playboy Club reception. So taken with it was Brian that he took it with him when he left and on to a party at photographer DAVID BAILEY's next evening, where it was apparently a great success". MICK pops in for a quick interview and briefly (very briefly) discusses "Beggars Banquet", "Performance", "Barbarella", MOTHERS OF INVENTION, and his new "moog-synthesiser".

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In "PAUL MCCARTNEY on THE BEATLES", Paul talks about the recently-released Beatles' "White Album". Here's a bit where he talks about writing "Rocky Racoon":
"I was with John on the roof, and we were just sitting around playing guitar and we were with DONOVAN and just enjoying ourselves. I started playing the chords and originally the title was "Rocky Sassoon". And then the three of us started making up the words and they came very quickly, and eventually it became "Racoon" because that was more like a "cow-ie"."

"Words To Your Favorite Hits" includes the lyrics to "Crossroads (as recorded by the Cream)" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (as recorded by Arthur Conley)".

There's a nice article on the SPECIALTY record label, plus TRAFFIC, JIMI HENDRIX, ARETHA FRANKLIN, and "Have We Misjudged THE MONKEES?".

And then there's THE HOLLIES, BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE, THE IMPRESSIONS, MARTHA REEVES, JOHNNY TAYLOR, and a lot more.

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Not bad for 35 cents!