Music History Events: Magazines
July 26, 1969 Brian Jones, who was a founding member of The Rolling Stones, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine following his death on July 3rd.
March 5, 1969 The rock magazine Creem is published for the first time.
December 31, 1968 Billboard magazine reports that this year, for the first time, US total music sales have topped one billion dollars.
September 14, 1968 Rolling Stone reports that The Who's Pete Townshend is working on a "rock opera" about a boy who is deaf, dumb, and blind. This ends up being their album Tommy.
June 28, 1968 Jefferson Airplane make the cover of Life magazine under the headline: "Jefferson Airplane, Top Rock Group, With Music That's Hooked the Whole Vibrating World."
September 22, 1967 The Beatles appear (as an abstract drawing) on the cover of Time magazine.
February 7, 1966 The first magazine dedicated specifically to rock and roll music, Crawdaddy!, is published by Paul Williams in New York City.
September 8, 1965 An ad appears in Variety looking for "Four Insane Boys, Ages 17-21" to star in a new TV show: The Monkees.
March 19, 1965 Britain's Tailor and Cutter magazine runs an article by tie makers asking The Rolling Stones to start wearing ties with their suits, a fashion which had recently gone out of style among the youth. "The trouble with a tie is that it could dangle in the soup," Mick Jagger responds.
November 14, 1964 At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."
December 30, 1963 The Beatles win Group and Record Of The Year ("She Loves You") in British music newspaper New Musical Express' annual year-end poll.
December 28, 1963 The magazine The New Yorker publishes an interview with Beatles manager Brian Epstein in their "Talk Of The Town" column about the band's upcoming Ed Sullivan gig - the first major press the group has received in the US.
November 2, 1963 Reviewing The Beatles' concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline "Beatlemania!", effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness for the first time.
August 1, 1963 Beatles Monthly magazine debuts. It publishes for six years.
November 30, 1962 For the first time, The Beatles make the "favourite group" list in the New Musical Express' reader's poll.
November 23, 1962 Joan Baez lands the cover of Time magazine in a story about the burgeoning folk music movement.More
November 3, 1962 Billboard magazine drops the "Western" from its "Country and Western" chart title.
July 20, 1961 The Beatles, known as The Beat Brothers, get some press in the British paper Mersey Beat, which announces their first record deal.
May 16, 1960 Billboard magazine reports that Detroit music mogul Berry Gordy is thinking of starting three new record labels, including one called Motown.
August 3, 1959 Folk group The Kingston Trio are featured on the cover of Life magazine.
June 3, 1959 Billboard magazine responds to the growing popularity of stereophonic recordings by splitting its album chart in two: one chart for mono, one for stereo.
November 10, 1958 Billboard magazine reports that Dick Clark's American Bandstand show on ABC is the hottest merchandising opportunity on television, noting that sales of Beechnut gum have doubled since the company begin buying ad space on the program.
March 24, 1958 Perry Como appears on the cover of Newsweek magazine in a story about his variety show, The Perry Como Show.
November 25, 1957 An article in Billboard claims, perhaps presumptively, that the era of the "package tour" is dead, with rock and roll artists feeling they can take a bigger cut from individual "record hops."
May 1, 1957 The first issue of 16 Magazine, featuring Elvis Presley on the cover, is published.
November 10, 1956 Billboard magazine's DJ survey reveals that Elvis Presley is the country's number one male artist on both the pop and country charts.
September 8, 1956 Elvis Presley first appears on the cover of TV Guide.
June 17, 1954 The UK music newspaper Record Mirror goes to press for the first time.
April 24, 1954 Keeping an eye on the new trends, Billboard publishes an article titled, "Teenagers Demand Music With A Beat - Spur Rhythm And Blues."
November 14, 1952 The British music paper New Musical Express publishes its first record chart. The first #1: Al Martino's "Here In My Heart."
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