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Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The musical






The controversial hippy musical,

The King Sisters, Alvino Rey and Kent Larsen are playing during a three-week engagement at The Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.








Autosalvage, Group Therapy and Joyfull Noise play at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA.
The Doors play at Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by The James Cotton Blues Band and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.



John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles fly to New York City, USA, where they will shortly launch their new company, Apple.




In today's edition of Rolling Stone magazine, reviewer Barry Gifford describes the album A Long Time Comin' by The Electric Flag with the sentence, 'This is the new soul music, the synthesis of white blues and heavy metal rock.' This is thought to be the earliest documented use of the term heavy metal in connection with rock music.
Acoustic psychedelic folk outfit Tyrannosaurus Rex score their first UK chart entry with the single Deborah. They will achieve much greater success as electric glam rockers T.Rex.



Stax Records and Atlantic Records have parted company, after working together since 1960 when Atlantic first began distributing Stax product. The split will cause tumult at Stax when it is realised that despite the ending of their agreement, Atlantic has retained control of all Stax masters since the start of the agreement, thus leaving Stax virtually without any catalogue.
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