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On the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a 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.
Popular singer Dick Roman is found dead aged 38 of an apparent heart attack in his apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. His body is found by aniother singer, Jerry Vale, seated with the television set still on.