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The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
The rock musical 
Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin record Rockin' Daddy, Poor Boy and Wang-Dang-Doodle, during sessions at Olympic Studios, London, UK, which will result in the album The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions. Backing musicians on these sessions include Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Charlie Watts.Four students are killed on Kent State University campus in Ohio, USA, by National Guard soldiers during an anti-Vietnam war protest. The incident horrifies Neil Young into writing the song Ohio one day later. The Beach Boys will also make reference to the killings in their song Student Demonstration Time. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck's cantata Truth Is Fallen, will be written as a protest against the Vietnam War, and dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings of May 1970. Also, the group Devo will form initially not as musical group but as an idea — the concept of the "de-evolution" of the human race — formulated by three art students at Kent State University in response to the fatal shootings.