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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.
It's Four In The Morning by Faron Young peaks at No92 in the Billboard Popular Singles Chart in the USA. The song will provide somewhat ironic inspiration for Paddy MacAloon of English band Prefab Sprout who will release the single Faron Young in 1985.
Elton John is awarded a gold disc in the USA for his album Madman Across The Water.Son Of My Father by Chicory Tip, one of the first rock hits to feature synthesisers extensively, reaches No1 in the UK singles chart. The song is written by future disco giant Georgio Moroder.
Pink Floyd perform their latest work, Dark Side Of The Moon, during the third of four shows at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
Hard bop jazz trumpet player Lee Morgan is shot dead, aged 33, by his common-law wife on the bandstand of Slug's, a jazz club in the East Village, New York City, USA.
Got To Be There, the first solo album by Michael Jackson enters the Billboard US Pop and Black Albums Charts simultaneously, in the USA. It will peak at No3 in the Black Albums chart and No14 in the Pop Chart.