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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 musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 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.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
Barbara McNair is playing during three weeks of shows at The Royal Box of The Americana Hotel, New York City, USA.
Trini Lopez is playing during three weeks at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during a season at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Linda Ronstadt And The Stone Poneys are playing during a ten-day engagement at The Marco Polo Restuarant, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Joni Mitchell is playing during eleven nights at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Her support acts change during this period, but include David Steinberg and Bunky And Jake.
Marvin Gaye plays during a week of shows at The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Charles Lloyd Quartet is spending a week playing live shows at American military bases in the Philippines, Asia.
The Iveys and The Casuals play at The Ye Ye Club, Rimini, Italy, Europe.
The Loading Zone play during three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
The 5th Dimension are playing during eleven nights at The Cave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich play at The Savoy, Southsea, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Wild Angels, Rivers Invitation, Brother Bung and Light Emporium.
Albert King plays at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA. The show is recorded and will be released in 1990 by Stax Records as the live album Wednesday Night In San Francisco.
Pink Floyd play at the Sheffield Arts Festival, Students Union, Sheffield University, Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe.
Esther And Abi Ofarim play at The Dome, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
Scott Walker turns down a £10,000 tour of South Africa because the contract would have required him to perform for segregated audiences.
The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, plays the first of four nights at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The Foundations play the third of six nights in Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Folk-rock duo Bunky And Jake are playing at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Headline act is Joni Mitchell.
Barbra Streisand performs in the Eugene McCarthy benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.
I'll Love You Forever Today by Cliff Richard (from the soundtrack of his movie Two A Penny) enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No27 during a six-week run. The b-side is Cliff's cover of the Neil Diamond composition Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon.
The Beatles start work on Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Elvis Presley continues with rehearsals for his NBC-tv comeback special, Singer presents ... Elvis, in Burbank, California, USA
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Influential trumpet player Ziggy Elman, who worked with the orchestras of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, dies aged 54 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, South America, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and other Brazilian recording stars take part in The March of a Hundred Thousand, to protest against the murder of a student, Edson Luis de Lima Souto, by police.
The Everly Brothers are playing during a fourteen-night stint at The Latin Quarter, New York City, USA.
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Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, produced by Pete Townshend of The Who, enters the UK singles chart on its way to No1.
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Quicksilver Messenger Service play the second of six nights at The Generation Club, New York City, USA.
Colin Greenwood, bassist of Radiohead is born in Oxford, England, UK, Europe.
Sandy Denny records a live session for the BBC radio show My Kind Of Folk, in London, England, UK, Europe.
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.