THE Edition BEAT - June 17 1967 / bi-weekly US magazine ("A Day In The Life" banned)
condition: VG+ (some tears outside edge / does not effect reading)

~June 17, 1967: "A Day In The Life" banned
Tony Barrow's outrage at the BBC comes through loud and clear in his report on the banning of "A Day In The Life", a decision reached by the BBC because it feared a line in the song referred to marijuana. Says Barrow: "It's difficult to imagine a more unlikely scene than that of a bunch of pot-puffing hippies dreaming away on a London Transport Bus", but the voice of reason did not prevail in this particular case and the song remained off British airwaves.
Barrow also reports that the British government was trying to ban all offshore "pirate" radio stations, located on ships anchored around the British Isles, though Radio London's Alan Keen claimed it had plans to keep broadcasting without Auntie Beeb breathing down its neck. The situation may have puzzled American readers who had ready access to pop and rock music radio, but the BBC did not have a full-time broadcast service dedicated to the format. They finally bowed to the inevitable on September 30, 1967, not with a Beatles song but with one by The Move. PDF size 13.4 MB. 24 pages. Vol. 3 No. 7.

Includes: Beatles, "A Day In The Life", Monkees, Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Bill Cosby, Herman's Hermits, Kinks, Ray Davies, Trini Lopez, Young Rascals, Spencer Davis, Steve Winwood, Supremes, Elvis Presley, Colonel Tom Parker, Tom Jones, the Association, the Seeds, Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Nancy Sinatra, Phil Spector, Burt Bacharach, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, Rod McKuen, Jan Baez, Bee Gees, Paul McCartney, Tony Barrow, Radio London, Marianne Faithfull, the Easybeats, Monterey Pop Festival, Smothers Brothers, Twiggy, Rod McKuen, Gypsy Boots, Martha & the Vandellas.