Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Showing all 16 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

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.
Spirit and Savoy Brown play the first of three nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Janis Joplin And The Kozmic Blues Band play at The Blossom Music Festival, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.
Sly And The Family Stone release a new single, Hot Fun In The Summertime, in the UK on Direction Records.
Iron Butterfly play at The Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, during the KQV Summer Music Festival.
The Byrds, Taj Mahal and Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys play the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Group X play their first ever live gig, at All Saints Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, but they will soon after change their name to Hawkwind.
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young play the fifth of seven nights at The Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Joni Mitchell.
At State Pavilion, New York City, USA, during The Stooges' first national tour of the USA, vocalist Iggy Pop gouges his own flesh with a pair of drumsticks, thus initiating rock's unhealthy obsession with self-mutilation.
Bob Dylan releases a new single, Lay Lady Lay, in the UK on CBS Records.
Jack Bruce releases the album Songs For A Tailor in the UK. George Harrison of The Beatles plays guitar on the song Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune.
British rock fans begin pouring into the Isle Of Wight in preparation for the first Isle Of Wight Festival which begins the following day, headlined by Bob Dylan and The Who.