List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1965.
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Specific genres 1965 in country music 1965 in jazz
Events January 4 – Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is sold to CBS for $13 million. January 12 – Hullabaloo premieres on NBC. The first show includes performances by The New Christy Minstrels, comedian Woody Allen, actress Joey Heatherton and a segment from London in which Brian Epstein introduces The Zombies and Gerry and the Pacemakers. January 17 – The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts' book Ode to a High Flying Bird, a tribute to jazz great Charlie Parker, is published. January 21 The Animals' show at New York's Apollo Theater is canceled after the U.S. Immigration Department forces the group to leave the theater. The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison travel to Sydney to begin their Australian tour. January 23 – "Downtown" hits No. 1 in the US singles chart, making Petula Clark the first British female vocalist to reach the coveted position since the arrival of The Beatles. January 24 – The Animals appear a second time on The Ed Sullivan Show. January 27 – Paul Simon broadcasts on BBC's Five to Ten show, discussing and playing 13 songs, 12 of which would appear on his May-recorded and August-released UK-only solo album, The Paul Simon Songbook. February 6 – Donovan performs the first of three performances on the British television program Ready Steady Go! This presents him to a widespread audience for the first time. February 12 – NME reports The Beatles will star in a film adaptation of Richard Condon's novel A Talent for Loving. The story is about a horse race that takes place in the old west. The film is never made. February 19 - Rod Stewart with The Soul Agents perform their first important concert in London club London Borough of Harrow February 24 – The Beatles begin filming their second film, Help! March 6 – The Temptations' "My Girl", written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, from Motown Records, reaches number 1. March 18 – The Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman are fined five pounds for urinating on the wall of a London petrol station. The band had asked to use the restroom, but it was out of order. March 20 – The 10th Eurovision Song Contest in Naples, Italy, is won by 17-year-old France Gall, representing Luxembourg, with the Serge Gainsbourg-composed "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". March 21 – The Supremes have their fourth number-one single, "Stop! In the Name of Love", written by Holland–Dozier–Holland. April – Michael Tippett is invited as guest composer to the music festival in Aspen, Colorado. The visit leads to major changes in his style. April 11 – The New Musical Express poll winners' concert takes place featuring performances by The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Kinks, the Searchers, Herman's Hermits, The Anita Kerr Singers, The Moody Blues, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Donovan, Them, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones. April 13 – The 7th Annual Grammy Awards are held in Beverly Hills. João Gilberto and Stan Getz each win the most awards with four, the latter winning Record of the Year with Astrud Gilberto for the song "The Girl from Ipanema" and the pair collectively winning Album of the Year for Getz/Gilberto. Louis Armstrong's "Hello, Dolly!" wins Song of the Year, while The Beatles win Best New Artist. April 21 – The Beach Boys appear on Shindig! performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?" April 26 – The first complete performance of American composer Charles Ives' Symphony No. 4, conducted by Leopold Stokowski with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City, is presented eleven years after the composer's death and around forty years since he last worked on it. May 5 – Alan Price leaves The Animals, to be replaced temporarily by Mick Gallagher and permanently by Dave Rowberry. May 6 Keith Richards and Mick Jagger begin work on "Satisfaction" in their Clearwater, Florida, hotel room. Richards comes up with the classic guitar riff while playing around with his brand new Gibson "Fuzz box". The Symphony of the New World, the first racially integrated orchestra in the United States, plays its first concert, under its founding conductor Benjamin Steinberg in Carnegie Hall, New York City. May 8 – The British Commonwealth comes closer than it ever has, or will, to a clean sweep of the US Hot 100's top 10, lacking only a hit at number 2 instead of "Count Me In" by the American group Gary Lewis & the Playboys. May 9 – Bob Dylan performs the first of two concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall, concluding his tour of Europe. Audience members include The Beatles and Donovan. May 30 – The Animals appear a third time on The Ed Sullivan Show. June Producer Tom Wilson, (Simon & Garfunkel) records a heavy backing band onto the song "The Sound of Silence", without the knowledge of Paul Simon, for release on a 45 rpm single, and the B-side, "We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'". The single will eventually reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on New Year's Day 1966. The US music press popularize the term "folk rock", which has been in print at least since the November 2, 1963, issue of Billboard magazine, in which "Devil's Waitin'" by the Glencoves was said to have a "wide open folk-rock sound." The term was also used of "Twins" by Kingtones (March 7, 1964), the Men (July 25, 1964), and even of Hoyt Axton. People outside the trade begin to take notice of the term in June, 1965. June 6 – The Supremes have their fifth consecutive number-one single, "Back in My Arms Again", written by H-D-H, from Motown Records. June 14 – Paul McCartney records "Yesterday". July 5 – Maria Callas gives her last operatic performance, as Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. July 9 – The release of the Tamil musical film Aayirathil Oruvan marks the end of the composing partnership between T. K. Ramamoorthy and M. S. Viswanathan. July 25 – Electric Dylan controversy: Bob Dylan, playing a second day at the Newport Folk Festival, is booed for playing an electric set with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Joan Baez and Donovan also play sets. August 6 The Small Faces release "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", their first single. The Beatles release the soundtrack to their second movie Help! August 14 – The husband-and-wife American pop duo Sonny & Cher earn their first number one hit I Got You Babe. It peaks at that position in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. August 15 – The Beatles play at Shea Stadium, the first rock concert to be held in a venue of this size. The concert also sets new world records for attendance (55,600+) and for revenue. August 27 – The Beatles visit Elvis Presley at his home in Bel-Air. It is the only time the band and the singer meet. September 30 – Donovan appears on Shindig! in the U.S. and plays Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier". October 15 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix signs a three-year recording contract with Ed Chaplin, receiving $1 and 1% royalty on records with Curtis Knight. The agreement will later cause continuous litigation problems with Hendrix and other record labels. October 17 – The Animals appear a fourth time on The Ed Sullivan Show. October 26 – The Beatles are appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen. Since it is unusual at this time for popular musicians to be appointed as MBEs, a number of previous recipients complain and protest. November 5 – The Who release their iconic single "My Generation" in the UK. This song contains the famous line: "I hope I die before I get old" November 14 – The Supremes have their sixth number-one record, "I Hear A Symphony", for Motown Records. November 26 – Arlo Guthrie is arrested in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for the crime of littering, perpetrated the day before (Thanksgiving) in the nearby town of Stockbridge. The resultant events and adventure will be immortalized in the song "Alice's Restaurant". December 3 The Beatles release their album Rubber Soul, along with the double A-sided single "Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out". George Harrison's performance on the sitar on the track "Norwegian Wood" leads to his becoming a pupil of Ravi Shankar. The Who release their debut album My Generation. Undated Seiji Ozawa is named the fourth music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra following the merger of the CBC Symphony and the Toronto Symphony. Rockfield Studios (near Rockfield, Monmouthshire in Wales) becomes the world's first residential recording studio. Toho College of Music is established in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
New bands See :Category:Musical groups established in 1965
Bands disbanded Paul & Paula
Albums released January DayAlbumArtistNotes1 The Chipmunks Sing with Children The Chipmunks -15 The Rolling Stones No. 2 The Rolling Stones UK21 Four Tops Four Tops Motown25 Cilla Cilla Black - – A Love Supreme John Coltrane - Dean Martin Hits Again Dean Martin - The Folk Album Trini Lopez - The Good Life With The Drifters The Drifters - Live in Concert Ray Charles Live Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show Ike & Tina Turner Live The Nancy Wilson Show! Nancy Wilson Live Song for My Father Horace Silver Quintet - The Zombies The Zombies Debut
February DayAlbumArtistNotes13 Herman's Hermits Herman's Hermits Debut The Rolling Stones, Now! The Rolling Stones US only15 Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits Brenda Lee - The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick Dionne Warwick - Songs from My Heart.... Loretta Lynn -22 Orange Blossom Special Johnny Cash - The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop The Supremes -23 My Funny Valentine Miles Davis Live – The Animals on Tour The Animals - Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams Del Shannon Hank Williams covers album Goin' Out of My Head Little Anthony & The Imperials – I'll Be There Gerry and the Pacemakers- Leader of the Pack The Shangri-Las Debut People Get Ready The Impressions-
March DayAlbumArtistNotes1 Girl Happy Elvis Presley Soundtrack Weekend in London The Dave Clark Five US2 Absent Friend Alf Henrikson - The Sound of Music Rodgers and Hammerstein, Julie Andrews Soundtrack5 Kinda Kinks The Kinks -Love Is EverythingJohnny Mathis -8 The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys -10 I've Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens -12 The Pretty Things The Pretty Things Debut22 Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan - The Early Beatles The Beatles US only Greatest Hits: From the Beginning The Miracles Greatest Hits Latin for Lovers Doris Day - The Temptations Sing Smokey The Temptations Smokey Robinson and The Miracles covers album – The Greatest Hits of Ike & Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner Greatest Hits The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads Otis Redding - Here Are the Sonics The Sonics - Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte Patti Page - Ooooooweeee!!! Dusty Springfield - Soul Dressing Booker T & the M.G.s - Odetta Sings Dylan Odetta -
April DayAlbumArtistNotes6 Beatles for Sale The Beatles EP9 Begin Here The Zombies -12 Dance Party Martha and the Vandellas - We Remember Sam Cooke The Supremes Sam Cooke covers LP15 Come My Way Marianne Faithfull -16 Bert Jansch Bert Jansch -19 Best Always Rick Nelson - If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set Tony Bennett - - 1,661 Seconds with Del Shannon Del Shannon - Chuck Berry in London Chuck Berry - I Go to Pieces Peter and Gordon - Introducing The Beau Brummels The Beau Brummels - Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass -
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