Broadway Album
Aug 7 Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
- Aug 11 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances
Music History
Aug 14 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including publishing rights to most of the Beatles song catalog) for $47.5M; 10 years later he sells 1/2 of his interest to Sony for $150M
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