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The Jeff Beck Group plays the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Sweetwater and Van Morrison.
The James Coburn movie The President's Analyst, featuring cameo appearances by protest folkie Barry McGuire and Los Angeles-based psychedelic band Clear Light, is released to cinemas in Denmark, Europe.
Led Zeppelin play the first of two nights at The Rose Palace, Pasadena, California, USA.
The Moody Blues enter the UK albums chart with their fourth album, On The Threshold Of A Dream, which will peak at No1.
Kim Yi Seon is born in Seoul, South Korea, Asia. She will find success as popular 1980s singer Kim Wan-Sun, regarded as 'The Korean Madonna'.
R'n'b singer and guitarist Lowell Fulson plays at El Rondo, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.Paul McCartney of The Beatles announces that his wife Linda is expecting a baby. Later in the day, they leave for a holiday in France, Europe.
John Lee Hooker records I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam, Messin' Round With The Blues and Hold On Baby, at Vault Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. Earl Hooker plays guitar on these tracks.
Entering at No69, the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the top-selling singles in the USA is I Turned You On by The Isley Brothers.
The Allman Brothers Band plays the second of two nights at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Pete Seeger plays a benefit concert for congressional candidate Phil Drath at The Mount Tamapais Theatre, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Marin County, California, USA.Big Brother And the Holding Company play the last of three nights at Euphoria (aka Pepperland), San Rafael, California, USA.
In East Grinstead, Sussex, UK, coroner Dr. Angus Sommerville records a verdict of death by misadventure on The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones. Although Jones' body contained significant quantities of drugs and alcohol, Dr Somerville concludes that the cause of death was drowning, but notes that, "For a man of his age, his heart was a bit larger than it should have been. It was fatty and flabby. His liver was twice the normal weight. It was in a state of fatty degeneration".
B.B. King, Santana, Taj Mahal, The Flaming Groovies, Aum and The Frost play the first of three nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
The funeral of The Rolling Stones' guitarist and founder Brian Jones is held in Priory Road Cemetary, Cheltenham Spa, England, UK, Europe. Bandmates Bill Wyman, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts are in attendance.
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Petula Clark plays the first night of a three-week season at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Jimi Hendrix is rehearsing for Woodstock with his new band at his house in Traver Hollow Road, Shokan, New York State, USA.
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Wayne Shorter is recording the tracks Dindi and More Than Human for his Blue Note Records album Super Nova, at A + R Studios, New York City, USA.
Blind country singer, prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leon Payne dies in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Charlie Musselwhite, Congress of Wonders and Kaleidoscope play the last of three nights at The Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA.
Abbey Road by
The
Beatles enters the Billboard Top 40 albums chart in
the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a 32-week stay.
Jim Morrison of The Doors attends the 13th Annual San Francisco Film Festival at the Masonic Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Who play at The Public Music Hall, on the corner of Lakeside and East 6th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Sarah Jory, who will become known in country music circles as 'The Princess of the Pedal Steel' is born in Reading, UK.
Joe
Cocker enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA for the first time with his powerfully rocked-up version of With
A Little Help From My Friends, written by John Lennon and Paul
McCartney of The Beatles.
Bob Dylan appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's second anniversary edition, and is the subject of this issue's major interview.
John Mayall ends a UK tour with a show at The Regal, Cambridge, supported by the Keef Hartley Band.
The Rolling Stones are working on the song Wild Horses in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Florence, Alabama, USA.
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The Paul Bley Trio with The Annette Peacock Ensemble, play at The Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York City, USA. This is an early example of a live music concert making use of electronic synthesisers.
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