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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.
Black Sabbath play at Leeds University, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, supported by Wild Turkey.
Hard bop jazz trumpet player Lee Morgan is shot dead, aged 33, by his common-law wife on the bandstand of Slug's, a jazz club in the East Village, New York City, USA.
Elton John is awarded a gold disc in the USA for his album Madman Across The Water.
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It's Four In The Morning by Faron Young peaks at No92 in the Billboard Popular Singles Chart in the USA. The song will provide somewhat ironic inspiration for Paddy MacAloon of English band Prefab Sprout who will release the single Faron Young in 1985.
Pink Floyd perform their latest work, Dark Side Of The Moon, during the third of four shows at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
Got To Be There, the first solo album by Michael Jackson enters the Billboard US Pop and Black Albums Charts simultaneously, in the USA. It will peak at No3 in the Black Albums chart and No14 in the Pop Chart.