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Elvis Presley is at home in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, entertaining Captain Jerry Kennedy of the Denver police force, and Ron Pietrafeso, head of Colorado's Strike Force Against Crime, in the jungle room. During the evening, Elvis decides to fly to Denver to buy a sandwich.
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Hurricane (Part 1) by Bob Dylan enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA where it will peak at No33 during a three-week stay.
On their Sabotage Tour, Black Sabbath play at The Kursaal, Southend, UK.
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Sonny And Cher Show begins a 34 episode run on tv in the USA, immediately achieving a top ten rating.
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Easy listening music bandleader and composer Percy Faith dies of cancer, aged 76, in Encino, California, USA.
Cafe Society, a band featuring future hitmaker Tom Robinson, play at The Golden Lion, London, England, UK, Europe.
Former Velvet Underground vocalist Nico plays a concert with Lutz Ulbrich at Facultie d'Assas, Paris, France, Europe.
David Bowie's Station To Station tour plays in The Veterans' Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by The Four Seasons is the No1 single in the UK.
Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist with Paul McCartney's Wings, breaks a finger when he slips in the bathroom of his Paris, France, hotel room, during a European tour.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues with rehearsals for its second leg at the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida.
Van Der Graaf Generator play at The Roundhouse, London, supported by The 101ers, a band featuring Joe Strummer, future founder of The Clash.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the University Of Florida Field, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the University Of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA.
After a show at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Bruce Springsteen endeavours to meet Elvis Presley by the unorthodox method of scaling the walls of Graceland. He is ejected by a security guard.
Keith Relf, vocalist of The Yardbirds, aged 33, dies at his home in Hanworth Road, Whitton, Middlesex, England, UK, Europe, after being electrocuted in a mishap involving his guitar.
The 101ers, featuring future Clash leader Joe Strummer, release their debut single, Keys To Your Heart, in the UK. On the same day, however, Strummer decides to throw in his lot with a new band, The Heartdrops, which will become better known as The Clash.
On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, 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.
On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, New York State, USA. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, 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.
John Lennon of The Beatles is finally awarded a passport in the USA. Neil Sedaka's song The Immigrant is dedicated to Lennon and his fight for an American passport.
After a lengthy battle with US immigration authorities,
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Touring in support of their LP Modern Music, Be Bop Deluxe play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
Legendary blues singer Victoria Spivey dies aged 69, in a Brooklyn, New York, USA. hospital.
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver play at the New Theatre, Oxford, England, UK, Europe.
On the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington, USA, supported by Elvin Bishop and 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.
On the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The State Fair Arena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 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.
UK music weekly the NME [New Musical Express] reports that two bands, Frankie Miller's Full House and Renaissance, have cancelled upcoming dates because the lead singers of both bands are suffering from throat trouble.
In the early hours of the morning, the final concert by The Band, comes to an end at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, USA. Guest performers at the show have included Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles and Neil Young. The entire event is filmed by Martin Scorsese and will be released as the movie The Last Waltz, in cinemas worldwide.
Eddie And The Hot Rods and The Count Bishops play at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland.
Malice, later to be known as The Cure, perform live for the school Christmas Concert at St Wilfrid's Comprehensive, Crawley, UK.
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