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On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
An item in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals that a mouse at the Central Clearing House in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, recently nibbled through an electrical cable, shut down the main computer and paralyzed all check clearing activities in the banks and the stock exchange in Buenos Aires. Reading the story, San Franciscan folk singer and songwriter Malvina Reynolds is inspired to write her song, The Little Mouse, a political parable about the ability of individuals - no matter how small - to screw up the capitalist system.
Pete Townshend of The Who opens the Meher Baba Oceanic, a 'pilgrim centre' in Ranleigh Drive, Richmond, London, UK.
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