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A UK silver disc is awarded to the hit single Bend It by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich.
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The Top Ten Singles being played on WABC Radio, New York City, USA, for the week beginning on this date are as follows :

1. I'm A Believer - The Monkees (Colgems)

2. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville (Parlo)

3. Snoopy vs. The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen (Laurie)

4. Standing In The Shadows Of Love - The Four Tops [Motown]

5. Devil With A Blue Dress On and Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder And the Detroit Wheels (New Voice)

6. That's Life - Frank Sinatra (Reprise]

7. Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band (Fontana)

8. Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You - Jimmy Castor (Smash)

9. Words Of Love - The Mamas And The Papas (Dunhill)

10. Mellow Yellow - Donovan (Epic)

The Bitter End Singers play at The Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London, England, UK.
Weekly tv show American Bandstand, in the USA, features the Electric Prunes singing I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night and Neil Diamond singing You Got To Me.
The Cyrkle play the second of two nights at The Catacombs, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by The Sparkles and Baby Cakes.
Shades Of Blue play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, supported by Three's Company.
Neil Diamond plays at The Capitol Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Music students at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, form a seven-piece rock ensemble called The Big Thing. Later, they will change their name to Chicago Transit Authority, and then, simply, Chicago.
Chuck Berry arrives in the UK to begin a national tour, and plays his first shows at The Domino Club and the Princess Club in Manchester, England.
The Small Faces play at The Silver Blades Ice Rink, Streatham, England, UK, Europe.
The first Love Circus is held at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA, with music by Moby Grape and lights by the Commune.
Evan Dando, singer, songwriter and guitarist of The Lemonheads is born in Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
Chuck Berry and The Grateful Dead play at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
Pink Floyd play at The Dance Hall, Eel Pie Island Hotel, Middlesex, England, UK, Europe. Work also continues at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK, on the Floyd tracks The Gnome, Pow R Toc H, The Scarecrow and Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk.
John Robert Richards is born in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He will find success as J.R. Richards, singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player of Dishwalla before branching out into a parallel career as an actor.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at the Big Apple, Munich, West Germany. It is said by some that when his guitar malfunctioned at this gig, Hendrix had the idea to incorporate feedback into his guitar style.
Jefferson Airplane play at the Men's Gym, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Bongo Club, Malmo, Sweden, Europe.
Kaleidoscope play the second of three nights at the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, California, USA.
Moby Grape play the last of three nights in The Scene Club East, New York City, USA.
Country Joe And The Fish play the first of three nights at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Youngbloods, Magic Fern, Wildflower, play the first of two nights the California Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
Ringo Starr of The Beatles records a farewell message for UK pirate radio station Radio London, at their premises in Curzon Street, London, England, UK, Europe. Like all pirates, the station is shortly to be forced to cease broadcasting.
The Youngbloods, The Yardbirds and Jake Holmes play at The Village Theater, New York City, USA. Jake Holmes plays his song Dazed And Confused. Jimmy Page of The Yardbirds listens, and is so 'inspired' that the song will later, with some amendments, make its way into the repertoire of Led Zeppelin, with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant listed as its writers. Forty years later, Holmes will sue Zeppelin for plagiarism.
Folk singer Bob Lind plays at The ice House, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Buffalo Springfield, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Association and The Sunshine Company play at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA.
The Steve Miller Blues Band plays the second of three nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Mother Earth and Bukka White.
Big Brother and The Holding Company play the second of three nights at the Straight Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
Cream play the last of twelve nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, supporting The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the Electric Flag.
The Standells play the third of six nights at The ice House, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Eric Burdon And The Animals play on the BBC tv show Whistle Stop in the UK. The show is hosted by Roger Whittaker.
The Standells play the last of six nights at The ice House, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans and Superband play the first of two nights at The Family Dog, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Kaleidoscope and the W.C. Fields Memorial Band play the third of four nights at the Magic Mushroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.
From a hotel room in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a somewhat stoned Peter Fonda phones Dennis Hopper and outlines an idea for a road movie which will, in due course, be released as Easy Rider. In the film, Fonda and Hopper portray two hippies based on the personalities of Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds.
John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles appear on UK tv late night chat show, The Frost Programme, speaking about Transcendental Meditation.
Joan Baez is arrested and jailed for ten days along with 123 other anti-Vietnam demonstrators blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center, Oakland, California, USA.
Procol Harum play at the Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Rolling Stone, America's first national rock magazine, is launched in San Francisco, California, USA, giving away a free roach clip with every issue.
Donovan plays the first of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Five Americans play the first of four nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Hour Glass, a band featuring guitarists Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, later of Allman Brothers Band.
The Doors play at The Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
The Five Americans play the last of four nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Hour Glass, a band featuring guitarists Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, later of Allman Brothers Band.
San Francisco based group The Steve Miller Band signs a record $750,000 contract with Capitol Records.
The Rolling Stones release their new album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, in the USA on London Records.
Jazz trumpeter Harry James marries former Las Vegas showgirl Joan Boyd (more than twenty years his junior) at The Fun Room, Harold's, Reno, Nevada, USA.
The Buddy Guy Blues Band plays the last of six nights at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Johnny Rivers plays at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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