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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 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.
First generation San Francisco hippy band
Jefferson Airplane play at The Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Led Zeppelin play at The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Charlie Musselwhite and Mickey Hart And His Heartbreakers play the first of three nights at the Family Dog, San Francisco, Cal;ifornia, USA.
Johnny Cash performs for US President Richard Nixon in the East Room of The White House, Washington DC, USA. Cash sings three songs specially requested by the President - A Boy Named Sue, Okie From Muskogee and Welfare Cadillac, the last of which castigates black people on welfare who drive Cadillacs while other working people struggle to get by. (N.B.
Other reports say that Cash did not sing Okie or Cadillac, substituting those songs with Man In Black and What Is Truth)

Yes play at Poperama in the Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
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