1965 in British music

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1960s in music in the UK
Events
1965 in music
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  • List of albums released
List of years in British music

This is a summary of 1965 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events[]

  • 15 January – The Who release their first hitsingle "I Can't Explain" in the UK. It was released a month earlier in the US.
  • 17 January – The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts' book, Ode to a High Flying Bird, a tribute to jazz great Charlie Parker, is published.
  • 21 January
    • 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.
  • 23 January – "Downtown" hits #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.
  • 24 January – The Animals appear a second time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • 27 January – Paul Simon broadcasts on BBC radio for the first time, on the Five to Ten show, discussing and playing thirteen songs, twelve of which would appear on his May-recorded and August-released UK-only solo album, The Paul Simon Song Book.
  • 6 February – Donovan gets his widest audience so far when he makes the first of three appearances on "Ready, Steady, Go!".
  • 12 February – NME reports that the Beatles will star in a film adaptation of Richard Condon's novel A Talent for Loving. The story is about a 2,253-kilometer (1,400 mi) horse race that takes place in the old west. The film is never made.
  • 24 February –
  • 20 March – Kathy Kirby, singing the UK entry "I Belong", finishes second in the 10th Eurovision Song Contest in Naples, Italy, behind France Gall, representing Luxembourg.
  • 23 March – Benjamin Britten is appointed to the Order of Merit (OM).[2]
  • April – Michael Tippett is invited as guest composer to the music festival in Aspen, Colorado. The visit leads to major changes in his style.
  • 11 April – 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 Moody Blues, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Donovan, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones.
  • 5 May – Alan Price leaves The Animals, to be replaced temporarily by Mick Gallagher and permanently by Dave Rowberry.
  • 6 May – Keith Richards and Mick Jagger begin work on "Satisfaction" in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room. Richards came up with the classic guitar riff while playing around with his brand new Gibson "Fuzz box".
  • 8 May – The British Commonwealth comes closer than it ever had, or would, to a clean sweep of the US Hot 100's top 10, lacking only the #2 slot.
  • 30 May – The Animals appear for a third time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • 12 June – The Beatles are appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen. With no tradition of awarding popular entertainers such honours, a number of previous recipients complain and protest.
  • July – John Cale, with his new collaborators Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison, makes a demo tape which he tries to pass on to Marianne Faithfull.[3] These are the beginnings of the Velvet Underground.
  • 5 July – Maria Callas gives her last operatic performance, in the title role of Tosca, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • 13 July – The Beatles receive a record five Ivor Novello Awards.[4]
  • 4 August – Iain Hamilton's Cantos receives its world première at The Proms, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Norman Del Mar.[5]
  • 6 August
    • The Small Faces release "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", their first single.
    • The Beatles release the soundtrack to their second movie Help!
  • 27 August – The Beatles visit Elvis Presley at his home in Bel-Air. It is the only time the band and the singer meet.
  • 11 September – The Last Night of The Proms is conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, with Josephine Veasey as soloist for the traditional rendition of "Rule, Britannia.[6]
  • 30 September – Donovan appears on Shindig! in the U.S. and plays Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier".
  • 17 October – The Animals appear for a fourth time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • 5 November – 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"
  • 3 December
    • 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.

Charts[]

  • See UK No.1 Hits of 1965

Classical music[]

New works[]

Musical theatre[]

Film and Incidental music[]

  • John Barry – The Ipcress File, starring Michael Caine.
  • Ron Goodwin – Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, starring Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas and James Fox.
  • Elisabeth Lutyens –
  • Robert Simpson – Incidental music to Ibsen's play The Pretenders.

Musical films[]

Jazz[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Stanley Sadie, "Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur. Tempo (New Ser.), 73, 24–25 (1965).
  2. ^ "No. 43610". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 March 1965. p. 3047.
  3. ^ John Cale & Victor Bockris What's Welsh For Zen London: Bloomsbury, 1999
  4. ^ Beatles Bible
  5. ^ BBC – The Proms – Archive. Accessed 17 April 2013
  6. ^ BBC – Proms – Archive. Accessed 17 April 2013
  7. ^ Fitch, Donald (1990). Blake set to music : a bibliography of musical settings of the poems and prose of William Blake. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780520097346.
  8. ^ Gloag, Kenneth (1999). Tippett, A child of our time. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780521597531.
  9. ^ Strimple, Nick (2005). Choral music in the twentieth century. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus. p. 89. ISBN 9781574671223.
  10. ^ Latham, Alison (2004). The Oxford dictionary of musical works. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 145. ISBN 9780198610205.
  11. ^ "Passion Flower Hotel". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  12. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY (1964)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  13. ^ Archer, Eugene (20 February 1965). "The Screen: 'Ferry Cross the Mersey':New Film Stars Gerry and the Pacemakers". NYTimes.
  14. ^ BFI.org
  15. ^ BFI.org
  16. ^ Hall, Charles (2002). Chronology of Western classical music. New York: Routledge. p. 1027. ISBN 9780415942171.
  17. ^ "Tasmin Little". Classic FM. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  18. ^ Lang, Harry (1995). Deaf persons in the arts and sciences : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780313291708.
  19. ^ "News in Brief – A baby named Zak". The Times. No. 56427. 15 September 1965. p. 7.
  20. ^ LastName, FirstName (2003). Encyclopedia Britannica almanac. London: Encyclopedia Britannica. p. 111. ISBN 9781593390730.
  21. ^ The London Gazette. H.M. Stationery Office. 1965. p. 2922.
  22. ^ University of Edinburgh Journal. 1965. p. 169.
  23. ^ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
  24. ^ Music in Britain. 1965. p. 37.
  25. ^ Michael De-la-Noy (1 January 1999). Eddy: the life of Edward Sackville-West. Arcadia Books. p. 297.
  26. ^ John Willis (June 1966). Screen World, 1966. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-8196-0307-4.
  27. ^ Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
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