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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.
Teen crooner
Pat Boone guest-stars as himself on tonight's episode of CBS-TV's The Beverly Hillbillies, which is entitled Collard Greens An' Fatback, in the USA.

UK 50s pop idol
Dickie Pride is found dead in bed at home. The cause of his death is determined as a combination of heroin and barbiturates.
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Pioneering British jazz-rock band
Jon Hiseman's Colosseum are filmed in an abandoned factory in Staines, Middlesex, UK, for a music film which will be released under the title Supershow.
FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover writes to Charles H.Crutchfield, President of the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, North Carolina, USA, supporting his appeal for censorship of rock albums, specifically mentioning recordings by
The Doors and
The Fugs.