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Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal plays at The Town Meadows, Rochdale, England, UK, Europe. One hundred and twenty four years later, while filming the promotional video for Strawberry Fields Forever in Sevenoaks, Kent, UK, John Lennon of The Beatles visits an antique shop and buys a circus poster advertising this performance. The text of the poster will, in due course, inspire the lyrics of Lennon's song Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite.




Producer George Martin records additional keyboard parts for The Beatles' tracks Money and I Wanna Be Your Man in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.







The Warlocks, later to become The Grateful Dead, record a demo of their song Can't Come Down for Autumn Records at Golden Gate Recorders, San Francisco, California, USA. Also recording tracks during the same session are Dino Valenti and Judy Mac.

Buffalo Springfield play the second of three nights at The Cheetah, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by The Seeds and The Lollipop Shoppe.
Moby Grape and English band Procol Harum play the second of two nights at The Anderson Theatre, New York City, USA.
San Francisco hippy band

Allmen Joy play at The Straight Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
McDuck and
The Herd and Jo Jo Gunne play at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead, England, UK, Europe.
Alexander's Timeless Bloozband, Jerry Steig And The Satyrs, The Sons of Champlin and The Fourth Way play the second of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.

Spirit and The Illinois Speed Press play the second of five nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Beatles continue work on Maxwell's Silver Hammer at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.

The World Wildlife Fund charity compilation album No One's Gonna
Change Our World is released in the UK. It features The Beatles' track Across The
Universe - marking the first time a Beatles track has appeared
on a non-Beatles' album.
Colosseum, play in The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Love, supported by


Vivian Carter, co-founder of influential Chicago-based 50's r'n'b label Vee-Jay Records, dies. Her label was the first to release recordings by The Beatles in the USA.


Jorma Kaukonen plays at The Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, with Tommy Emmanuel.
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