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Quincy Jones is appointed music director for the 43rd annual Academy Awards (aka The Oscars) program.
Golden Earring play at Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Netherlands, Europe.
On their Wall of Dolls tour,
Mr. Bojangles by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No9, during a thirteen-week run on the chart.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are interviewed by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn for the radical left wing publication, Red Mole, in their Tittenhurst Park home near Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe. The next day, inspired by the ideas put forward in the interview, Lennon will write his song Power To The People.
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B.B. King, Ballin'jack and Christian Rapid play the third of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Eric Clapton flies to the USA to complete mixing work as producer of a new album by Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.
Led Zeppelin play at the Student Refectory, Leeds University, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at Hirsch Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.


The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson release a new single, Mama's Pearl, in the UK.


Paul Simon, Chicago and Carol King play at a benefit concert for U.S. Presidential candidate George McGovern.
A free folk-rock concert is held at Kenwood House, Hampstead, London, featuring Al Stewart, Bridget St John, The Sutherland Brothers, Marc Ellington and Colin Scot.
It's Too Late by Carole King begins five weeks at No1 on Billboard's best-selling US singles chart. On the same day, King's album Tapestry reaches No1 in the Billboard US albums chart for the first of fiteen weeks.
Revered big-band trumpeter Charlie Shavers dies aged 71 of throat cancer in New York City, USA. Shavers worked with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama.
The Who play the second of three nights at The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Jazz vibraphone virtuoso Gary Burton records Handbags And Gladrags, General Mojo’s Well-Laid Plan and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
Berkeley-based songwriter Country Joe McDonald plays at the Oleo Strut, Killeen, Texas, USA.

Eddie Kendricks, Gladys Knight, The Honey Cone and Bobby Hutton appear on the first nationally-syndicated episode of r'n'b tv show Soul Train. The show is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Dylan is in Studio C, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA, working on Sammy's Song with David Bromberg.
San Francsico band Santana play in Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
In a syndicated column in the New York Post, journalist Pete Hamill
publishes a story about the evolving tradition of tying yellow ribbons round trees or
gateposts to welcome returning prisoners back to their homes. The story will inspire songwriters Irwin Levine and Larry Brown to compose Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, which will become a huge hit in 1973 for Tony Orlando And Dawn.
Rick Nelson is booed during an oldies show at a Madison Square
Garden, New York City, USA, when he plays some of his newer songs.
Incensed by the crowd's response, he will pen the song Garden Party, which will go to No6 in the charts in the USA, heralding a new
period of success for the former teen idol. [Other acts performing on this night are Chuck Berry, Bobby Rydell, Bo Diddley, The Shirelles, The Coasters and Gary 'US' Bonds.]
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The Residents, accompanied by the Mysterious Nigel Senada and Snakefinger, play on Audition Night at the Boarding House, San Francisco, California, USA.
Sly and the Family Stone release a new single, Family Affair, on Epic Records in the USA.
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San Francisco's pioneers of psychedelic rock The Grateful Dead play at the Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Blue Oyster Cult play at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA, with The Byrds and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Frank Zappa off the stage at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK, Europe, inflicting multiple injuries and leaving him bound to a wheelchair.
Disgruntled fan Trevor Charles Howell pushes
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Jazz guitarist and banjo player Fred Guy, dies aged 74 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Guy spent many years working with Duke Ellington, before moving to Chicago to run a ballroom.
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