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Introduction
Events
New Bands
Bands disbanded
Albums released
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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Biggest hit singles
Some American and/or British Hit Singles
Published popular music
Other notable songs
European classical music|Classical music
Opera
Musical theater
Musical films
Births
Deaths
Grammy Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
See also
Events
The Animals' show at New York's Apollo Theater is canceled after the U.S. Immigration Department forces the group to leave the theater.
1, making Petula Clark the first British female vocalist to reach the coveted position since the arrival of The Beatles.
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.
March 6 ? The Temptations' "My Girl", written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, from Motown records, reaches
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.
May 8 ? The British Commonwealth comes closer than it ever had, or would, to a clean sweep of the Hot 100's top 10, lacking only a hit at
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 1 on the Hot 100 on New Year's Day 1966.
The US music press coin the term "folk rock".
György Ligeti ? Requiem for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano solo, mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1963?65)
Opera
Musical theater
Musical films
Births
WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter
Deaths
Grammy Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
See also
Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1965
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