   list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1968. __toc__ ==events== *january 4 â guitarist jimi hendrix is jailed by stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist noel redding. *january 6 â the gibson guitar corporation patents its gibson flying v electric guitar design. *january 13 â johnny cash performs his famous concert at folsom state prison in california. *january 20 â the who and the small faces start with a tour of australia and new zealand. *february 1 - universal studios offers the doors $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made. *february 4 - the bee gees make their american television debut on the smothers brothers comedy hour. *february 12 â jimi hendrix is given an honorary high school diploma from garfield high school in seattle, washington. hendrix is also given the key to the city. *february 16 â the beatles, mike love, mia farrow, donovan and others travel to india to visit maharishi mahesh yogi at rishikesh. *february 18 â david gilmour joins pink floyd, replacing founder syd barrett, who had checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. *february 21 â mcgraw-hill, inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the u.s. rights to hunter davies' authorized biography of the beatles. *february 22 â florence ballard of the supremes is released from her contract with motown. *february 27 - doo-wop singer frankie lymon is found dead at his grandmothers house in harlem, new york of a heroin overdose *march 1 â johnny cash and june carter are married in franklin, kentucky, with merle kilgore as best man. *march 8 â bill graham opens the fillmore east in an abandoned movie theater in new york city. *march 25 â the 58th and final new episode of the monkees airs on nbc. *march 30 â the yardbirds record their live album live yardbirds at the anderson theater. *april 4 â james brown appears on national television, in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the united states following the assassination of reverend martin luther king, jr. *april 6 **the 13th eurovision song contest is held in the royal albert hall, london. the winning song, spain's "la, la, la" is sung by massiel, after spanish authorities refused to allow joan manuel serrat to perform it in catalan. the uk finish in second place, just one point behind, with the song &
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