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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.
A small ad in trade magazine Billboard announces that Steve Paul's The Scene, a popular New York City, USA, nightclub and music venue, is up for sale.
Little-known Merseyside-based band Ibex play in the Bluesology Session at The Octagon Theatre, Bolton, England, UK, Europe. The band's singer, Fred Bulsara, will find greater fame as Freddie Mercury of Queen.
Humble Pie, Deep Purple and Brian Auger's Trinity play the first of two nights at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.
San Francisco rock vocalist Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band play at the Convention Hall, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
The second day of the three-day long Wild West Festival takes place in San Francisco, California, USA, with Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Sons Of Champlin, Jimmy Witherspoon and the Anonymous Artists of America playing at The Family Dogg, while Jefferson Airplane, Aum and Los Flamencos De Santa Lucia appear at The Fillmore Auditorium. [The original event, with a somewhat over-ambitious line-up, had been planned to take place at Kezar Stadium, but it fell apart.]
Country Joe And The Fish, The MC5 and Tyrannosaurus Rex [later to become T.Rex] play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash reaches No1 in the Billboard country music singles chart in the USA. On the same day, his album Johnny Cash At San Quentin tops the Billboard albums chart for the first of four weeks.
The Pretty Things and Thunderclap Newman play at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Natural Born Bugie by Humble Pie enters the UK pop singles charts. It will peak at No4 during a ten-week run.
Jimi Hendrix continues rehearsing at his house on Traver Hollow Road, Shokan, New York State, USA.
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King Crimson play in The Civic House, Dunstable, England, UK, Europe.