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Rolling Stone reports that the Bob Dylan bootleg Great White Wonder has sold over 350,000 copies and that the Dave Clark Five have broken up.

Also, at the Palermo Pop '70 Festival in Italy, Arthur Brown (of the Crazy World of... and "Fire" fame) has been arrested and imprisoned for four days in solitary confinment, after he'd set fire to his helmet and stripped naked during his stage performance at the festival. The audience threw shoes, food and bottles at him. While in solitary, Brown was given a note signed by over 200 locals telling him to get out of Italy and stay out.

Singer/guitarist Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat is found dead beside an empty bottle of barbituates in fellow bandmember Bob Hite's garden in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles. He was 27.
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In the Pennsylvania and New Jersey countrysides, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War stage a reenactment of a brutal search-and- destroy mission as an antiwar protest.
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Time magazine publishes "The Waves of Morpheus," an article on the growing fad of waterbeds. Although technical problems often produce flooding in early models, sales of the water-filled vinyl bag mattresses have skyrocketed.
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Elvis Presley returns to the road for the first time since 1957, kicking off a six-date tour in Phoenix.
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A team of geologists introduces the "continental drift" theory, hypothesizing the existence, 225 million years ago, of a continent comprising all the earth's current continents.
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Josie and the Pussycats, a Saturday morning cartoon about an all-girl rock band, debuts on CBS-TV. It runs through September 2, 1972.
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The publisher of the fashion trade paper Women's Wear Daily pushes the new look of the midi skirt, but women refuse to buy into it.
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Vice President Spiro Agnew says the youth of America are bing "brain-washed into a drug culture" by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.

The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in five games, to win the 67th World Series.
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A Melody Maker poll finds that Led Zeppelin has replaced the Beatles as Great Britain's most popular group -- the first time the Beatles haven't been Number One in eight years.
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Jimi Hendrix dies in his London apartment. The death certificate lists the cause of death as "inhilation of vomit due to barbituate intoxication." Later, insufficient evidence of circumstances will lead to an open verdict on his demise. Nonetheless, some contend that if Hendrix had been put in an upright sitting position rather than left lying on his back, he might not have suffocated.

FCC Commisioner Nicholas Johnson says that Vice President Spiro Agnew, instead of attacking rock music for spreading "drug culture" among the nation's youth, should worry about the political contributions of corporations that manufacture and sell drugs, cigarettes and liquor.
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In Miami, Jim Morrison of the Doors is acquitted on charges of "lewd and lascivious behavior" but is found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity.
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Monday Night Football takes its bow (with the New York Jets vs. the Cleveland Browns) and strains U.S. marriages, but Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford will boost ABC's ratings.
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Vice President Spiro Agnew responds to FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson's charges, accusing Johnson of "backing the kind of permissiveness and self-flagellation that has encouraged so many of our youth to burn to marijuana and worse."
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Tamla-Motown Records reveals that the Jackson 5 have sold 10 million singles worldwide in nine months ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "The Love You Save") -- an unsurpassed record for a period.
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A unique new music show debuts on Hollywood TV station KCET, Channel 28. Boboquivari (a Hopi Indian word for the neck of an hourglass, "the place where time begins") presents rock, pop, folk and other performers in an informal, intimate studio setting -- but with no host, no format and no lip-synching. The first shows feature Tim Buckley, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Roberta Flack and Freddie King.
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Eric Burdon and War's "Spill the Wine" and Dawn's debut single, "Candida," go gold.
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