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It is announced by promoter Big Bear Records of Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, that Chicago bluesman Homesick James has had to drop out of his current UK tour for health reasons, and will be replaced by Eddie 'Guitar' Burns. The 'health reasons' referred to are, in fact, consequences of his serious alcoholism.
A front page headline, Ford To New York : Drop Dead, in the New York Daily News, inspires Billy Joel to write his song Miami 2017 [Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway].
The Who play the first of two days at Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade of Bob Dylan and his long-time musical comrades, plays its first show, at the War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.