THIS WEEK IN MUSIC, 40 YEARS AGO

JANUARY 1
Billboard magazine reported that for the first time albums had outsold singles in the US with album sales reaching over 192 million units.

JANUARY 2

The entire shipment of John and Yoko's album 'Two Virgins' was seized by authorities in New Jersey due to the full frontal nude photograph of the couple on the cover. The album was eventually wrapped in plain brown paper in record stores.

JANUARY 5

Jimi Hendrix was jailed for one day in Stockholm, Sweden on drink charges after going berserk and destroying everything in his room at the Goteberg Hotel.

Time magazine notes that the ‘flop’ “Magical Mystery Tour” will net The Beatles $2 million. The film is rebroadcast in color over BBC television.

JANUARY 6
Daily Mirror reports that John Lennon and his father, Alfred, have been reunited; Alfred Lennon had left home when John was a child.

- Am I That Easy To Forget (Engelbert Humperdinck)
- Jackie (Scott Walker)
- Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)

(John Fred & His Playboy Band)
- Nobody But Me (The Human Beinz)
- She Wears My Ring (Solomon King)