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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 controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
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.
Mike Curb, President of MGM Records, drops eighteen acts, including Connie Francis and The Cowsills. The stated reason for pruning the label roster is to filter out acts who are promoting drug use and other forms of degeneracy unacceptable to Mr Curb. Mysteriously, Eric Burdon (formerly of The Animals) remains on the roster.
Z. Z. Top play the second of two nights at Armadillo World Headquarters in the National Guard Armoury, Austin, Texas, supported by Heaven And Earth.
San Francisco hippy pioneers The Grateful Dead, supported by New Riders of the Purple Sage, play the third of four nights at The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York State, USA.
Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, Boz Scaggs and Ashton, Gardner and Dyke play the third of four nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane play at the Roberts Athletic Center, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Eddie Peabody a popular entertainer and recording artist, known for most of his life as The King Of The Banjo because of his unusual musical virtuosity, dies of a brain hemorrhage which he suffered while on stage at The Lookout House supper club in Covington, Kentucky, USA.
Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, Boz Scaggs and Ashton, Gardner And Dyke play the third of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Indianola Mississippi Seeds by B.B. King enters the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No26 during a six-week run on the chart.
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Fotheringay play at The University Of London, London, UK.
Jefferson Airplane play at the Roberts Athletic Center, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.