Life Magazine June 28, 1968 – Rock Music

Life Magazine Cover : The new rock – Jefferson Airplane.

• Most of this issue pertains to rock music.
• Feature article on rock includes Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creme, The Mothers of Invention, The Doors, The Who, Peter Townsend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix, and much more – several related articles.
• Cute full page Crest toothpaste ad for the after-dinner mint.
• Two page color Clairol ad for a frost-it-yourself kit.
• Poor come to “Resurrection City” in Washington, D.C., it is a shanty town right next to the Washington Monument.
• Stock market business on Wall Street.
• Richard Cornuelle, consultant to the National Association of Manufacturers, low-cost housing, poverty’s free enterpriser, includes photos of Mike Harris, Jay Smith.
• Vinyl get-ups for kids, includes a German Fokker D-VII bi-wing airplane at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.
• A Special Section on The New Rock – seven leading groups – Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jefferson Airplane, The Mothers of Invention, The Doors, Cream, The Who, Country Joe and the Fish.
• Rock lyrics.
• Ars Nova.
• Rock philosopher Frank Zappa.
• Antique magazines are packed with entertainment from cover to cover!
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