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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
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 musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 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 comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
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.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
Trini Lopez is playing during three weeks at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during a season at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Everly Brothers are playing during a fourteen-night stint at The Latin Quarter, New York City, USA.
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Folk-rock duo Bunky And Jake are playing at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Headline act is Joni Mitchell.
Joni Mitchell is playing during eight nights at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Her support acts change during this period, but include David Steinberg and Bunky And Jake.
Elvis Presley is spending a week on vacation in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Roy Orbison is playing during a three-week season at The Club Embassy, Toronto, Canada.
Rosemary Clooney is playing during an engagement at Harold's Club, Reno, Nevada, USA. However, she is seriously dependent on pills and will walk out of the club before many days have passed. At some point in this residency, she will also drive her white Cadillac Eldorado up the wrong side of a winding, two-lane mountain road, hoping in her deteriorating mental state, to test God's love. If He lets her survive after courting death from Reno to Lake Tahoe, it will mean that He loves her. She survives.
The charity concert, Sounds 68, is staged in The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing include The Byrds, The Move, Grapefruit, Easybeats, Alan Bown, Joe Cocker and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Jimi Hendrix is one of several stars attending the show.
Donovan, Fleetwood Mac, Tim Rose, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Champion Jack Dupree, Duster Bennett and Taste play on the second day of the Woburn Abbey Pop Festival, Woburn, England, UK, Europe.
Iron Butterfly, Indian Head Band and The Collectors play the last of four nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells play at the Britannia Rowing Club, Trentbridge, England, UK, Europe.
Gospel artist Shirley Caesar is presented with a scroll in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in recognition of her crusade for civil rights.
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones flies out from London, England, UK, Europe, to Los Angeles, California, USA, accompanied by Marianne Faithfull. Jagger is planning to oversee final mixing of the album Beggar's Banquet, and to record two songs for Faithfull's upcoming LP.
Tim Buckley and the Illinois Speed Press play the last of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, plays at the 5th Dimension, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Gene Pitney begins a week of shows at The Fiesta Club, Stockton, England, UK, Europe.
Jimi Hendrix attends a Traffic/Pretty Things gig in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe, where he meets journalist Anne Bjorndal who will become a friend.
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With a final gig in Luton, England, UK, Europe, The Yardbirds break up, leaving guitarist Jimmy Page to fulfil upcoming concert obligations. He re-forms the group as the New Yardbirds, but when The Who's madcap drummer Keith Moon quips, "That'll probably go down like a lead zeppelin," Page's eyes light up.
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Jimi Hendrix attends a Traffic/Pretty Things gig in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe, where he meets journalist Anne Bjorndal who will become a friend.
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Ten Years After perform in the last of three nights at the new Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, along with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Truth.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.