THE Edition BEAT - May 14 1966 / bi-weekly US magazine (Sonny and Cher go to the movies)
condition: NM (mint-)

~May 14, 1966: Sonny and Cher go to the movies
In the pop music business making a film seemed the inevitable next step for most groups and Sonny and Cher, after dominating the pop charts for a year, were ready for their close-up. The nearly unknown director William Friedken, who whould later direct "The Exorcist", "The French Connection", and "The Sorcerer", was hired to direct the duo in 'Good Times", their cinematic debut. It was released in 1967 to nearly universal derision.
In the news was Jeff Beck, who was taken ill with suspected meningitis during a concert in Marseilles and had to leave the Yardbirds' tour. Tony Barrow discussed the U.K. television industry's possible ban on lip-synching during live TV shows. And Mustang Records (for whom the Bobby Fuller Four also recorded) took out a full-page ad for a release by a band called Opus I, "Back Seat '38 Dodge". The title of the song was the same as a controversial sculpture by Ed Kienholz, which had just debuted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This was Opus I's only release, a song that one of the band members described as the "last real surf record and the beginning of punk". PDF size 9.4 MB. 16 pages. Vol. 2 No. 9.

Includes: Jeff Beck, Yardbirds, Bob Lind, P.J. Proby, Sonny & Cher, Mick Jagger, Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Young Rascals, Bobby Rydell, the Leaves, Shadows of Knight, Maxine Brown, Dave Hull, Tony Barrow, Brian Epstein, Walter Shenson, Beatles, Shirley Bassey, Hollies, Smothers Brothers.