Records: Everywhere, Hair

Youngsters begin lining up at the box office of Manhattan's Biltmore Theatre before dawn. Sidewalk scalpers hustle tickets for as much as $50 a pair. A year after its Broadway debut, the rock musical Hair is not only a nightly sellout in New York and Los Angeles but an international hit as well. It has been playing regularly to packed houses in London, Scandinavia and West Germany, and new productions are opening in Paris and Sydney.

By any measure, this electronically amplified paean to peace, pot and permissiveness has become the My Fair...

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