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The motion picture A Hard Day's Night premieres in The Beatles' hometown of Liverpool, with hundreds of thousands of fans lining the streets for a parade from the airport to the city center. The movie was shot in black and white with a budget of only £200,000 ($500.000) and took just seven weeks to complete. Reviews were mostly positive and the film went on to earn over eleven million dollars.

Pressings of the album cover for "Some Girls" by The Rolling Stones were halted when some of the celebrities whose faces appeared on the cover, including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe, threatened to sue. The sleeve was quickly replaced with a cover that removed all the famous folks, whether they had complained or not.

While on sabbatical in France, The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison died of heart failure and acute respiratory distress. News of his death wasn't made public until after his burial in a Paris cemetery on July 9th. Interviewer Gary James would later speak to Morrison's brother-in-law Alan Graham about the circumstances surrounding the singer's death.

Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next thirty years they will sell over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc and digital file versions, but later struggled against Apple's iPod and other new devices.

The three-day Atlanta Pop Festival opens at Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia in front of a crowd of 200,000. Jimi Hendrix played his feedback filled version of "The Star Spangled Banner". Two days later, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox says he will seek legislation to ban all Rock festivals in the state, but no laws were ever passed.

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A New Jersey based quintet calling themselves Bon Jovi are signed to Phonogram's Mercury label. They will record six albums for the label, all of which would go Platinum.

United Artists released The Buzzcocks single 'Love You More', at 1 minute 29 seconds it was the second shortest single ever released. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs 1960 hit 'Stay' was the shortest hit at one minute 28 seconds.

The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, a part of the Smithsonian Institute, auctions off John Lennon's psychedelic-painted 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V at Sotheby's in New York. The car, which Lennon donated to the museum in 1977, was sold to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum for a then record price of $2,299,000. When John had the car painted from its original black in April, 1967, it drew some public outrage. An old woman in London's downtown attacked the car using her umbrella and yelling: "You swine, you swine! How dare you do this to a Rolls-Royce!"

Jefferson Airplane make the cover of Life magazine under the headline: "Music That's Hooked the Whole Vibrating World. The New Rock." Photographer Art Kane snapped the band in plexiglas boxes in front of a mound of gypsum on the bank of New York's East River across from the United Nations Building. The cost of the issue was 35 cents

Fats Domino records his rendition of "Blueberry Hill" at Master Recorders in Hollywood. Rising to #2 on Billboard's Top 100, it will prove to be the highest charting of his thirty-seven Top 40 hits. The tune had been recorded by at least six other popular artists in the 1940s.