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She's A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Jimi Hendrix reports to police headquarters, Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe, as he must do for the next five days.
Humphrey Lyttelton, The Tony Lee Trio, The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet and The Graham Collier Septet perform live on the BBC Radio 1 show Jazz Club in London, England, UK, Europe.The Chambers Brothers, The Sunshine Company and The Siegel Schwall Blues Band, with lights by Holy See, play the last of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Butterfield Blues Band, The Charles Lloyd Quintet and The Ultimate Spinach, play the first of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play in Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.The Sunshine Company and Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band play the third of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Richard "Groove" Holmes Trio records Speak Low, My Scenery, Blue Moon and other tracks for Prestige Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
San Francisco-based rock entrepreneur Bill Graham expands his concert venue empire by opening The Fillmore East (formerly the Village Theatre) in New York City, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Big Brother And The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play the last of three nights at The Cheetah, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Monkees complete their recording of Daddy's Song (composed by Harry Nilsson) at Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On their second North American tour, The Cream play at The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Moby Grape play the last of six nights at the Generation Club, New York City, USA.
Tighten Up by Archie Bell And The Drells reaches No1 in both the Billboard and Cash Box magazine charts of the best-selling pop singles in the USA.
It is reporterd that the police have raided The Electric Theatre, in Chicago, Illionois, USA, and shut it down.
The Hamonicats are the musical guests on the tv show Bob Braun's 50-50 Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
The Pat Martino Septet records Distant Land and other tracks for Prestige Records in New York City, USA.
Fantasy-horror movie The Lost Continent is released to cinemas in the USA. Generally undistinguished, it is of interest to music fans for a substantial role played by English folk, pop and rock singer Dana Gillespie.Nancy Wilson and The Fifth Dimension play at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York State, USA.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, later to find fame as T.Rex, play at Mothers, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. Deejay for the night is John Peel.
Willard Robison, vocalist, pianist and composer of such songs as A Cottage For Sale, Old Folks and Old Pigeon Toed Joe, dies aged 73 in New York City, USA.
San Francisco band The Mojo Men record When You're Down, Sure Of Your Love and other tracks for Warners, but they will not be released until 2003, as the album There Goes My Mind.
Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells play at The Cedar Club, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
At Blaises in London, England, UK, Europe, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience jam with Tim Rose.
Taj Mahal and Tim Buckley play the fourth of six nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Love and Fever Tree play at The Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Blue Cheer is also listed as appearing but had to cancel and were replaced by Blue Mountain Eagle.
At Paul McCartney's house in Cavendish Road, St John's Wood, London, England, UK, Europe, John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles complete the writing of Hey Jude.
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The Who play at The Tamarack Lodge, a resort hotel in Ellenville, The Catskills, New York State, USA.
Jose Feliciano enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with a radically re-interpreted version of The Doors' song Light My Fire. It will peak at No8.
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The Perishers and Gordon Smith play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, with DJ Kazoon.
Andre Kostelanetz releases a new LP, The Magic Of Music, on Harmony Records in the USA.The Doors play at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, USA, supported by Earth Opera.
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Gordon Lightfoot plays the second of three nights at The University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd plays the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, as support to The Moody Blues and Rotary Connection.
The New York Rock'n'Roll Ensemble play the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Amboy Dukes [including guitar hero Ted Nugent] and Charlie Musselwhite.
The Steve Miller Band plays the second of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Soupy Sales, Lesley Gore, The First Edition and The Muppets appear in an ABC-tv Saturday morning special, The Pied Piper Of Astro World, set in the newly-opened Houston amusement park of that name.
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