1965 in Music

Events 1 - 100 of 104

• Jan 9 The Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• Jan 16 "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
• Jan 16 The Searchers' "Love Potion Number 9" peaks at #3
• Jan 20 The Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
• Jan 23 "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 28 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
• Jan 30 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
• Feb 6 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1

• Feb 8 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

• Feb 16 "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
• Feb 18 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 performances
• Feb 20 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
• Feb 24 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
• Feb 27 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances

• Mar 3 The Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
• Mar 5 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
• Mar 6 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances
• Mar 10 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)
• Mar 12 "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
• Mar 13 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

• Mar 17 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
• Mar 18 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances
• Mar 18 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
• Mar 20 10th Eurovision Song Contest: France Gall of Luxembourg wins singing "Poupee de cire, poupee de son" written by Serge Gainsbourg in Naples

• Apr 9 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
• Apr 13 The Beatles record their single "Help"
• Apr 13 7th Grammy Awards: The Girl From Ipanema, The Beatles wins
• Apr 23 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" single released by the Four Tops (Billboard Song of the Year 1965)
• Apr 24 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
• Apr 26 Charles Ives' 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 years after the composer's death
• Apr 27 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 performances

• May 2 "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
• May 9 The Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
• May 11 "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances


• May 13 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
• May 16 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
• May 22 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66
• May 22 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1
• May 25 Dave Davies of The Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage
• Jun 5 "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
• Jun 6 Rolling Stones release single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• Jun 12 "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
• Jun 12 "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 performances
• Jun 12 "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 performances
• Jun 12 The Beatles are awarded a MBE
• Jun 14 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
• Jun 14 John Lennon's second book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

• Jul 10 Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
• Jul 10 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• Jul 23 The Beatles' "Help" is released in UK
• Jul 24 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
• Jul 24 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
• Jul 25 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
• Jul 29 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends

• Aug 6 Beatles release "Help" album in UK
• Aug 11 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC

• Aug 15 Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
• Aug 20 Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK
• Aug 27 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
• Aug 28 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
• Sep 4 Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
• Sep 11 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• Sep 13 Beatles release "Yesterday"
• Sep 13 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
• Sep 25 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 performances
• Sep 25 Beatle cartoon show begins in US
• Sep 26 Queen Elizabeth decorates the Beatles with Order of the British Empire
• Oct 4 "Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
• Oct 6 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
• Oct 9 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
• Oct 10 "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
• Oct 16 "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances
• Oct 17 "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 performances
• Oct 20 Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
• Oct 25 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
• Oct 26 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
• Nov 13 "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
• Nov 14 "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
• Nov 20 "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances
• Nov 22 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 performances
• Nov 29 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
• Dec 3 The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
• Dec 4 "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
• Dec 6 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers in Sotouboua Togo, kills 125
• Dec 10 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
• Dec 11 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
• Dec 11 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
• Dec 12 The Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
• Dec 14 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 133

• Jan 4 Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-English dancer and judge (Strictly Come Dancing), born in Ballarat, Australia
• Jan 4 David Glasper, rocker (Breathe-All I Need)
• Jan 4 Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead), born in Exeter, United Kingdom
• Jan 4 Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues), born in Lagos, Nigeria
• Jan 9 Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jan 10 Nathan Moore, English musician (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), born in Stamford Hill, London
• Jan 12 Mark Moore, British dance music record producer & DJ (S'Express-Winter Course), born in London, United Kingdom
• Jan 12 Rob Zombie, American musician & filmmaker, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts
• Jan 15 Derek B, British rapper (Bullet from a Gun), born in London, United Kingdom (d. 2009)
• Jan 20 Greg K., American musician & singer (The Offspring), born in Glendale, California
• Jan 20 John Michael Montgomery, American country music singer, born in Danville, Kentucky
• Jan 21 Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
• Jan 22 Jazzy Jeff Townes, American rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Jan 22 Ray Mayhew, English musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), born in Southampton, United Kingdom
• Jan 22 Steven Adler, American musician (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child), born in Cleveland, Ohio
• Feb 16 Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer (Slayer)

• Feb 23 Sylvie Guillem, French ballerina (Royal Ballet), born in Paris, France
• Feb 25 Brian Baker, American guitarist
• Feb 27 Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist, born in Duisburg, West Germany
• Mar 4 WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
• Mar 12 Liza Umarova, Chechen singer and actress, born in Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Mar 18 Jeff Labar, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
• Mar 23 Marti Pellow, Scottish musician (Wet, Wet, Wet - "Love is All Around"), born in Glasgow
• Mar 27 Johnny April, American bass guitarist and vocalist (Staind), born in Enfield, Connecticut
• Apr 1 Robert Steadman, English composer
• Apr 3 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (d. 2000)
• Apr 6 Black Francis [Charles Thompson IV], American singer and songwriter (Pixies, Frank Black), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Apr 10 Tim Alexander, American funk metal drummer (Primus-Pork soda), born in Cherry Point, North Carolina
• Apr 15 Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer (4 Non Blondes, What's Up), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
• Apr 16 Gerardo [Mejía], Ecuadorian-American rapper, born in Guayaquil
• Apr 18 Diana Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets)
• Apr 18 Sylvia Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets)
• Apr 18 Vicky Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets)
• Apr 19 Natalie Dessay, French soprano and actress, born in Lyon, France
• Apr 19 Suge Knight, American record producer (co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records), born in Compton, California
• Apr 25 Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear), born in Los Angeles, California
• May 9 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
• May 11 Greg Dulli, American musician
• May 13 Tasmin Little, English violinist
• May 13 Lari White, American country music singer and actress (You Can Be a Star winner- 1988), born in Dunedin, Florida (d. 2018)
• May 16 Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)

• May 18 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
• May 25 Mark Knight, California, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
• May 25 Remco Prins, Dutch rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash)
• May 28 Chris Ballew, American musician
• Jun 3 Mike Gordon, American musician
• Jun 3 Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
• Jun 5 Sandrine Piau, French soprano
• Jun 6 David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
• Jun 8 Rob Pilatus, German model and dancer (Milli Vanilli, Girl You Know It's True), born in NYC, New York (d. 1998)
• Jun 11 Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
• Jun 12 Cindy Lee Berryhill, American singer and songwriter (Baby), born in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California
• Jun 12 Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
• Jun 13 Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
• Jun 14 Trina Shoemaker, American mixer, record producer, and sound engineer (Queens of the Stone Age, Sheryl Crow), born in Joliet, Illinois
• Jun 17 David Longdon, English progressive rock musician (Big Big Train), born in Nottingham, England
• Jun 23 Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
• Jun 29 Barry D, [Iain Bakker], English pop musician (Jesus Jones)
• Jun 29 Tripp Eisen, American musician
• Jul 5 Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
• Jul 9 Frank Bello, American heavy metal musician (Anthrax)
• Jul 10 Ken Mellons, American singer
• Jul 11 Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
• Jul 12 Robin Wilson, American rocker (Gin Blossoms), born in Detroit, Michigan
• Jul 20 Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam
• Jul 23 Slash [Saul Hudson], English-American rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child o' Mine), born in London, England
• Jul 25 Marty Brown, American country singer (Wildest Dreams), born in Maceo, Kentucky
• Jul 26 Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise), born in Hermosa Beach, California
• Jul 28 Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer, born in Hong Kong
• Jul 28 Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Jul 30 Tex [Anthony] Axile, English rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen), born in Crawley, Sussex, England
• Aug 5 Jeff Coffin, American musician (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones), born in Massachusetts
• Aug 5 Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
• Aug 6 Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
• Aug 8 Aaron Abeyta, American musician
• Aug 9 Kyle Kyle [Kyle Keiderling], American rock bassist (Bang Tango), born in Kensington, Pennsylvania
• Aug 13 Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
• Aug 17 Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
• Aug 17 Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
• Aug 18 Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
• Aug 20 KRS-One [Lawrence Parker], American rapper, born in Brooklyn, New York
• Aug 25 Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)

• Sep 3 Todd Lewis, musician (Toadies)
• Sep 11 Moby [Richard Hall], American musician (Play, 18), born in Harlem, New York
• Sep 12 John Norwood Fisher, American musician (Fishbone)
• Sep 13 Zak Starkey, English rock drummer, son of Beatle Ringo, born in London, England
• Sep 17 Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
• Sep 17 Bryan Singer, American director
• Sep 19 Sabine Paturel, French singer (Les Bêtises) and actress, born in Toulon, France
• Sep 22 Andy Cairns, Irish musician
• Sep 24 Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
• Sep 28 Ginger Fish, American drummer (Marilyn Manson)
• Sep 29 Fora van Leijenhorst, Curacaos/Neth dancer (Josephine)
• Oct 4 Skip Heller, American musician, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Oct 8 C. J. Ramone [Christopher Ward], American musician (The Ramones), born in Queens, New York
• Oct 10 Rebecca Pidgeon, British-American actress, singer and songwriter, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Oct 10 Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan), born in Tateyama, Chiba, Japan

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• Oct 16 Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC

• Jan 1 Juan Bautista Plaza, Venezuelan composer, dies at 66
• Jan 8 Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer, dies at 74
• Jan 14 Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
• Jan 25 Staf Nees, Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63
• Jan 27 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63
• Jan 28 Jef van Durme, Belgian composer, dies at 57
• Jan 29 Michael Spisak, Polish composer, dies at 50
• Feb 2 Richard Wurz, composer, dies at 79
• Feb 13 Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
• Feb 14 Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor, dies at 84

• Mar 1 Boleslav Vomáček, Czech composer, dies at 77
• Mar 3 Carlo Gatti, Italian composer, dies at 88
• Mar 6 Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58
• Mar 9 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65
• Mar 25 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Italian composer, dies at 72
• Apr 2 Renzo Bossi, Italian composer, dies at 81
• Apr 26 Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70
• May 1 Leo Spies, Russian-born German composer, dies at 65
• May 1 Spike Jones [Lindley Armstrong Jones], American bandleader (Der Fueher's Face, Cocktails For Two), dies from emphysema at 53
• May 25 Sonny Boy Williamson II [Aleck Miller], American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, dies at 65
• Jun 7 Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59
• Jun 14 Guido Guerrini, Italian composer, dies at 74
• Jun 18 George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
• Jun 20 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
• Jun 28 Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
• Jul 1 Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55
• Jul 17 Luiz Cosme, Brazilian composer, dies at 57
• Jul 18 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, Russian composer, dies at 64
• Jul 28 Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74
• Aug 1 Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Japanese cellist and composer, dies at 77
• Aug 2 Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
• Aug 6 Peter Ronnefeld, German composer and conductor (Die Nachtausgabe), dies at 30
• Aug 16 Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
• Aug 27 Otto Reinhold, German composer, dies at 66
• Sep 3 Otto Lederer, Austrian actor (The Jazz Singer), dies at 79
• Sep 6 Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
• Sep 9 Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
• Sep 15 Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
• Sep 16 Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
• Sep 27 Harry Reser, American banjo player and bandleader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
• Oct 5 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, Swedish composer, dies at 79
• Oct 15 Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
• Oct 18 Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73
• Oct 21 Bill Black, American band leader and bassist who worked with Elvis, dies of a brain tumour at 39
• Oct 21 Marie McDonald, American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" (Promises Promises), dies of an accidental drug overdose at 42
• Oct 28 Earl Bostic, American jazz alto saxophonist (Flamingo, Temptation), dies at 52
• Nov 4 Krsto Odak, Croatian composer, dies at 77
• Nov 6 Clarence Williams, American composer, dies at 67
• Nov 6 Edgard Varèse, French-born composer, dies at 81
• Nov 7 Friedrich Wildgans, Austrian composer, dies at 52
• Nov 25 Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
• Nov 27 Carl Parrish, American composer, dies at 61
• Dec 10 Henry (Dixon) Cowell, US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68
• Dec 14 Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
• Dec 16 Tito Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (La Rondine), dies at 77
• Dec 17 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
• Dec 21 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74
• Dec 29 Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79

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