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Having completed two weeks of recording sessions, Elvis Presley flies to Aspen, Colorado, for a skiing holiday with his wife, Priscilla, and entourage.
Vern And Ray play at The Freight And Salvage Coffee House, 1827 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA.Wilson Pickett, Amen Corner, Don Partridge and Peter Sarstedt appear live on UK tv show Top Of The Pops.
Pioneering British jazz-rock band Jon Hiseman's Colosseum play at The Speakeasy, London, UK.
Donovan collapses in Los Angeles airport, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Hong Kong flu, causing him to miss rehearsals for the Andy Williams Show.Frank Sinatra records For Once In My Life, Mrs. Robinson, and other tracks for Reprise Records, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Rock band Ambros e Sl ade are photographed for the cover of their debut LP, Beginnings, at Pouk Hill Quarry, Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK, Europe. The occasion will inspire Noddy Holder to write the song Pouk Hill in 1970, and the group will eventually re-name itself simply as Slade.
Ten Years After play the last of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Spirit.The Jeff Beck Group (including Rod Stewart) plays at the MPLS Labor Temple, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. One reviewer notes that "when the sound system kept cutting out Stewart threw the mike stand through an amp and walked off the stage, never to return." Also on the bill are Spider John Koerner And Willy Murphy and Zarathustra.
The Jeff Beck group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, record Spanish Boots, in London, UK.
Motown supremo Berry Gordy Jr appoints his brother Robert Gordy to the position of vice-president of Motown Records.
Country Joe And The Fish play the first of two nights in The Old Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Todd Sucherman is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success as a drummer for Styx.
American soul duo Bob And Earl play at The Good Companions, Slough, England, UK, Europe.
The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, play the first of three nights at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Kaleidoscope and Southwind play at The Rose Palace, Pasadena, California, USA. The film Farewell Cream is also shown.
The Monkees are working on the songs Penny Music, Kitty Hawk and Steam Engine, in Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
British music weekly newspaper the NME (New Musical Express) announces that, in 1968, album sales overtook singles sales in the UK.
EMI in the UK announces the launch of a new label, Harvest, which will concentrate on progressive rock acts. The label will, in due course, release albums by Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Electric Light Orchestra, Pretty Things, The Third Ear Band, The Edgar Broughton Band, Be-Bop Deluxe and more.
American bluesman The Beatles formally announce the appointment of Allen Klein of ABCKO as their financial manager.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays at the San Jose Pop Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, California, USA, with Taj Mahal and Eric Burdon.
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Janis Joplin appears on the cover of the influential Newsweek magazine in the USA.
Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson records Consider The Lilies, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, and other tracks, in the USA.
The Beatles continue to work on Come Together, and begin recording The End, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe
The movie More, directed by Barbet Schroeder, is released to cinemas in Europe. The film features a soundtrack composed and played by Pink Floyd.Jimi Hendrix continues rehearsing at his house on Traver Hollow Road, Shokan, New York State, USA.
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Cliff Richard records Are You Only Fooling Me, Your Heart's Not In Your Love and other tracks at EMI's Abbey Road Studio 2, London, UK.
Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra is performed for the first time ever at The Royal Albert Hall in London, England, UK, Europe.
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In an interview, John Lennon likens The Beatles' company Apple Corps to a big black hole that is sucking up all his benefits as a composer and performer.The Beatles release a double A-sided single, Something/Come Together, in the USA. This is the first time a George Harrison song has been the A-side of a Beatles single.
Little Richard, The Move and Joe Cocker play the second of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Howlin' Wolf plays two gigs in one day, first at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, UK, then at The Speakeasy. Also on the bill at The Marquee is The Groundhogs.
John Lennon of The Beatles and Yoko Ono spend the second of five days being filmed at home in Ascot, UK, and in London, for a BBC tv 24 Hours documentary, The World Of John And Yoko.
Diana Ross makes her final tv appearance as a member of The
Supremes, when they appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
in New York City, USA.
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Cactus begin rehearsals for their debut album at Ultrasonic Studios, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
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