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On the fifth and final leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA, supported by Muddy Waters and The Fools. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
Blues vocalist, pianist, songwriter and recording artist St. Louis Jimmy Oden dies aged 74 of bronchopneumonia in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bruce Springsteen's first public performance of Because The Night, takes place on stage with Patti Smith at CBGB's Theater, New York City, USA. During the show, the venue is closed by fire marshals, citing excess capacity as the reason.