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's live album
Band of Gypsys,
featuring his new
Billy Cox-Buddy Miles
rhythm section, goes gold.
Kinks
singer
Ray Davies
makes the 6,000-mile round trip from New York City to London and back again, interrupting the band's U.S. tour, in order to rerecord one word on the band's new single, "Lola." Davies changes "Coca-Cola" -- a trademark that would have violated the BBC's advertising ban -- to "cherry cola."
President Nixon
claims that the Cambodian intrusions have been among the most successful of the Vietnam conflict and stresses that all forces will withdraw from Cambodia by June 30.
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The
Who
play the alleged "final performance" of their rock opera,
Tommy,
at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. This and the previous night's performance are the only times a pop group has appeared at the Met.
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Bob Dylan
receives an honorary doctorate of music degree from Princeton University.
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Janis Joplin
performs with Big Brother & the Holding Company
for the first time at the Avalon Ballroom.
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A U.S. tour planned by
Ginger Baker
's
Air Force
is canceled because of "the political climate," though slow ticket sales mayhave something to do with it as well.
Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz
enjoys her first Rolling Stone
cover: a shot of young anti-Vietnam War protestors for the laed story, "On America 1970: A Pitiful Helpless Giant." Within six months publisher Jann Wenner
will splash his covers with Leibovitz photos of Janis Joplin, Rod Stewart
, and the coup de grâce: a pensive John Lennon
, followed by John and Yoko Ono
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12 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conductor
Herbert von Karajan
offers himself as a guinea pig for tests investigating the effect of drugs in performing and listening to music.
A fiery, flamboyant pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates named Dock Ellis
hurls a no-hitter -- an unlikely convergence in baseball of guile, precision and dumb luck -- against the Padres in San Diego. But something else makes Ellis' feat even more amazing: he is zonked on LSD. Years later, Ellis admits he was "as high as a Georgia pine" during the game and still didn't seem entirely convinced the stranger-than-fiction event happened. Ellis dies in 2008, and a year later an animated YouTube clip about his story becomes a viral sensation. In 2014, he is profiled in a documentary entitled No No: A Dockumentary.
14 Derek and the Dominos
make their U.K. live debut with
Dave Mason
replacing
Duane Allman
on guitar.
The
Grateful Dead
release
Workingman's Dead,
a mellow, country-flavored departure from their previous psychedelic output.
Grand Funk Railroad
spends $100,000 for a block-long billboard in New York's Times Square to advertise its latest record,
Closer to Home.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
embarks on a tour of Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland -- the first tour by a Western rock band of Soviet-bloc countries.
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The Supreme Court upholds the right of an individual to claim conscientious- objector status if that objection applies to all wars.
The murder trial of cult leader Charles Manson
begins in Los Angeles.
16 Woodstock Ventures, sponsors of the Woodstock Festival of August 1969, announces that it lost more than $1.2 million on the festival, which it hopes to recoup from sales of the
Woodstock
album,
receipts from the documentary film
Woodstock,
which opened a month before, and Woodstock-related memorabilia.
Ten months after the Tate-La Bianca murders, jury selection for the Charles Manson
trial begins in California.
Chicago Bears star Brian Piccolo
dies of cancer at age 26. After the former running back's death at Chicago's Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, longtime Bears owner George Halas, Sr.
says: "Ah, he was a tough one." Piccolo's courageous fight against the disease will be told in the critically acclaimed made-for-TV movie Brian's Song
, starring James Caan
and Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams
as his former teammate Gale Sayers
, on ABC this fall.
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Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens
premieres on NBC-TV with regular guests "Mama" Cass Elliot
and Lulu
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Pete Townshend
's inopportune use of the British slang term
bomb
draws police and FBI scrutiny at the Memphis International Airport. Townshend was overheard remarking, "
Tommy
seems to be going down a bomb," meaning it was a hit. Officials heard only "bomb" and panicked.
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Twist king
Chubby Checker
and three others are arrested at Niagra Falls after marijuana, hashish and unidentified drug capsules are found in Checker's car.
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The U.S. Senate repeals the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which allowed the president to treat the Vietnam conflict as a war.
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KRLA-FM in Pasadena, California, drops its long-running series of ten-minute daily comedy routines by the
Credibility Gap
, a hip satirical outfit, explaining that "Humor is no longer funny in today's society."
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Ray Charles
performing; later this summer the
Guess Who, Delaney and Bonnie, Mountain
and others will appear at the festival.
Antiwar resistance continues in a disparate manner, as two different decisions are reached a day apart: The U.S. Church of the Brethren announces its support for nonviolent demonstration, while increased militancy is favored by the Strategy Action Conference at the University of Wisconsin. On Aug. 15, the National Student Association will opt for a nonviolent strategy.
The Top Five
1. "The Love You Save"
- Jackson Five
2. "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"
- Three Dog Night
3. "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"
- Temptations
4. "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue"
- The Beatles
5. "Hitchin' a Ride" - Vanity Fair
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U.S. troops officially depart Cambodia with 337 dead and 1,524 wounded in ground combat, after having killed an alleged 11,349 enemy troops. Unannounced Cambodian incursions and air attacks by the U.S. will continue, though the Senate approves a troop-limiting measure, the first such restriction on presidential action.
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