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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
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 musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
Lulu plays during a two-week cabaret season at The Talk Of The Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
Fabian is playing at The Pheasant Run, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Diana Ross And The Supremes play at The Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean.
Molly Bee is playing during two weeks at The Cork Club, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Kenny Rogers And The First Edition are playing at The Carousel, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
The Magnificent Men are playing a week of shows at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Checkmates Ltd are appearing during an extended engagement at The Cave Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Tennessee Ernie Ford is playing during a week at The Carousel, West Covina, California, USA.
Eddie Floyd, Pigmeat Markham, The Cassanovas, Barbra Merger, Pat Lewis, J.J. Barnes, The Holidays, Dusty Williams, Dennis Thomas, Ruby Andrews and Timmy Willis are playing in the week-long Memphis Sounds Show at The Riveira Theater, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Pink Floyd play at the Smurf Club, De Engh, Bussum, The Netherlands, Europe.
Status Quo play at The Kinema, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Thomas Gustafsson is born in kövde, Västergötland, Sweden, Europe. He will find success as songwriter and singer Thomas G:son, who also plays in the band Masquerade.
The Love Affair play at the Cat Ballou, Grantham, England, UK, Europe.
Savoy Brown plays at the University Of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Europe.
Judy Garland plays at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, USA.
Pete Seeger performs Waist Deep In The Big Muddy on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Show on tv in the USA. The song had been censored out of a previous appearance, because it is a metaphorical representation of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's policy of escalation.
Neil Diamond plays in Dahlgren Hall at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
Eric Burdon And The Animals play at Merced County Fairgrounds, Merced, California, USA, supported by Eire Apparaent.
Rosko (William Roscoe Mercer) records Introduction To The Broken Wing, My Soul Preached To Me, Perfection and The Story Of A Friend for Verve Forecast Records in New York City, USA.
On their second tour of North America, The Cream play at San Fernando Valley College, San Fernando, California, USA.
Amen Corner play at The Tabernacle, Stockport, England, UK, Europe.
Jo Jo Gunne play at The Starlight Ballroom, Crawley, England, UK, Europe, with The Human Instinct.
The Mothers Of Invention (led by Frank Zappa) play at The War Memorial Theater, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
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The Moody Blues play at the Country Club, Kirklevington, England, UK, Europe.
Canned Heat, The MC5 and Odds And Ends play in The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Byrds, The Righteous Brothers and Glen Campbell play at The Student Union Ballroom, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusettes, USA.
Ten Years After play at The Marquee Club, London, England, UK, Europe.
Buddy Guy, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Son House play the last of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Fantastics play at The Beau Brummel Club, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, Europe.
Sandrine Kiberlain, actress and singer, is born 25 February 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Europe.
Joni Mitchell and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills And Nash, visit Cass Elliott of The Mamas And The Papas at her home in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Before a show at The Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Jimi Hendrix encounters The Plastercasters, who (as is their wont) make a plastercast of his penis.
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In advance of his wife Priscilla and their new baby Lisa Marie, Elvis Presley moves from Memphis, Tennessee, USA, to a new house at 1174 Hillcrest Drive, Los Angeles, California.
The Herd play at The Bolero Club, Wednesfield, England, UK, Europe, supported by The 'N Betweens, who will find greater success after a name change to Slade.
Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers play at Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Candy Choir.
Zap Comix, the first successful title of the underground comics genre, an alternative to standard comic books, publishes its first issue. The book is drawn and written by 24-year old cartoonist Robert Crumb, and his wife Dana helps sell the initial copies in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francsico, California, USA, along with two other people. The next day, a small distribution company, Third World Distribution, will purchase 500 copies for distribution in outlets throughout the Bay Area
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And The Holding Company play at the Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Solomon King flies to Paris, France, to begin a round of promotional appearances for his hit She Wears My Ring, in France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, Europe.
The Velvet Underground play at The Lecture Lounge of the Student Union, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.
A feature in the New York Times refers to Jimi Hendrix as 'the black Elvis.'
Jo Jo Gunne play at The Starlight Ballroom, Crawley, England, UK, Europe, with The Human Instinct.
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.