1965 in British music

none 1965 1965 British music This is a summary of 1965 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 15 January – The Who release their first hit single "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 km mi on us horse race that takes place in the old west. The film is never made. 24 February – The Beatles begin filming their second film, Help! Richard Rodney Bennett's opera The Mines of Sulphur is premièred at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.Stanley Sadie, "Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur. Tempo (New Ser.), 73, 24–25 (1965). 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).43610 y 3047 26 March 1965 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 Seekers, The Moody Blues, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Donovan, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones. 26 April – 10 May – Bob Dylan tours the UK, concluding his tour of Europe, and ending with two concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall with audience members including The Beatles and Donovan. The tour features in the film Dont Look Back. 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 comes 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. 24 May - 26 May -- The British Song Festival (in Brighton), featuring performances by Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Dave Berry, Elkie Brooks, Helen Shapiro, The Ivy League, Kenny Lynch, Lulu, Manfred Mann, Mark Wynter, Marianne Faithfull, Maureen Evans, The Moody Blues, Vince Hill, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (Toney Ben The Amazing Radio London Adventure https://www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl/bentoney/bookp11.html 2025-09-13) 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. 14 June – Paul McCartney records "Yesterday".Lewisohn Mark 1988 Mark Lewisohn The Beatles Recording Sessions Harmony Books New York 0-517-57066-1 10 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.John Cale & Victor Bockris What's Welsh For Zen London: Bloomsbury, 1999 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.Beatles Bible 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.BBC – The Proms – Archive. Accessed 17 April 2013 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".BBC – Proms – Archive. Accessed 17 April 2013 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 Benjamin Britten – Songs and Proverbs of William Blake for baritone and piano Fitch Donald Blake set to music : a bibliography of musical settings of the poems and prose of William Blake University of California Press Berkeley 1990 9780520097346 32 Michael Tippett – The Vision of St Augustine (oratorio) Gloag Kenneth Tippett, A child of our time Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York 1999 9780521597531 97 William Walton – The Twelve, to a text by W. H. Auden Strimple Nick Choral music in the twentieth century Amadeus Pompton Plains, NJ 2005 9781574671223 89 Hugh Wood – Scenes from Comus Latham Alison The Oxford dictionary of musical works Oxford University Press Oxford New York 2004 9780198610205 145 Musical theatre 24 August – The Passion Flower Hotel (music & lyrics by John Barry and Trevor Peacock, book by Wolf Mankowitz) opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre after a run in Manchester.http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_p/passionflowerHotel.htm Passion Flower Hotel The Guide to Musical Theatre 16 October 2019 15 December – Charlie Girl (music & lyrics by David Heneker and John Taylor) opens at the Adelphi Theatre, London, starring Joe Brown and Anna Neagle. 20 December – Twang! (music, lyrics and book by Lionel Bart) opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre, starring Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Windsor and James Booth. 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 – Dr. Terror's House of Horrors directed by Freddie Francis, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The Skull directed by Freddie Francis, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Robert Simpson – Incidental music to Ibsen's play The Pretenders. Musical films Be My Guest, starring David Hemmings and Steve Marriott Catch Us If You Can, starring the Dave Clark Five Every Day's a Holiday, starring John Leyton, Michael Sarne and Peter Birrell.http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32587 https://web.archive.org/web/20070314234823/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32587 dead 2007-03-14 BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY (1964) Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk 2009-04-16 2012-02-15 Ferry Cross the Mersey, starring Gerry and the Pacemakershttps://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/20/archives/the-screen-ferry-cross-the-merseynew-film-stars-gerry-and-the.html The Screen: 'Ferry Cross the Mersey':New Film Stars Gerry and the Pacemakers Archer Eugene 20 February 1965 NYTimes Help!, starring The Beatles Three Hats for Lisa, starring Joe Brown, Sid James, and Una StubbsBFI.org Up Jumped a Swagman, starring Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, and Suzy Kendall.BFI.org Jazz Stan Tracey – Under Milk Wood Births 1 January – John Digweed, DJ, record producer, and actor 4 January – Beth Gibbons, vocalist (Portishead) 6 January – Murray McLachlan, Scottish pianist Hall Charles Chronology of Western classical music Routledge New York 2002 9780415942171 1027 10 January – Nathan Moore, singer (Brother Beyond) 14 January – Slick Rick, rapper 20 January – Heather Small, soul singer (M People) 22 January – Andrew Roachford, singer-songwriter and keyboard player 12 February – David Westlake, singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Servants) 23 March – Marti Pellow, vocalist (Wet Wet Wet) 1 April – Robert Steadman, composer 7 April – Yorkie (David Palmer), bassist (Space) 15 April – Graeme Clark, bass guitarist (Wet Wet Wet) 13 May – Tasmin Little, violinisthttps://www.classicfm.com/artists/tasmin-little/guides/facts/ Tasmin Little Classic FM 17 August 2021 23 May – Simon Gilbert, drummer (Suede) 31 May – Lisa I'Anson, DJ 6 June – David White, guitarist (Brother Beyond) 7 June – Billy Reeves, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Theaudience) 23 June – Paul Arthurs, guitarist (Oasis and The Rain) 4 July – Jo Whiley, radio DJ 6 July – Anthony Marwood, English violinist 19 July – Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussionist Lang Harry Deaf persons in the arts and sciences : a biographical dictionary Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 1995 9780313291708 146 28 July – Nick Banks, drummer (Pulp) 13 September – Zak Starkey, drummer, son of Ringo StarrNews in Brief – A baby named Zak The Times 15 September 1965 56427 7 19 September – Goldie, electronic music artist and DJ 2 October – Roy Powell, jazz pianist, organist and composer 12 October – Phil Creswick, singer (Big Fun) 9 November – Bryn Terfel, operatic bass-baritone LastName FirstName Encyclopedia Britannica almanac Encyclopedia Britannica London 2003 9781593390730 111 29 October – Richard Ayres, composer and music teacher. 21 December – Stuart Mitchell, pianist and composer date unknown Gordon McPherson, Scottish composer Peter Nardone, conductor, singer and composer Date unknown – Caroline Dale, cellist Deaths 8 February – Winifred Christie, pianist and composer, 82The London Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=2iA9l3bw7VsC 1965 H.M. Stationery Office 2922 8 June – Erik Chisholm, composer, 61University of Edinburgh Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=9R8LAQAAIAAJ 1965 169 18 June – George Melachrino, conductor, singer and composer, 56Joseph Murrells The Book of Golden Discs https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr registration 1978 Barrie and Jenkins 978-0-214-20480-7 84 2 July – Charles Kennedy Scott, organist and choral conductor, 88Music in Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=Mpc6AAAAIAAJ 1965 37 4 July – Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, music critic, 63Michael De-la-Noy Eddy: the life of Edward Sackville-West https://books.google.com/books?id=nSoeAQAAIAAJ 1 January 1999 Arcadia Books 297 24 July – Irene Browne, actress and singer, 69John Willis Screen World, 1966 https://books.google.com/books?id=VCQ9AErr-uMC&pg=PA234 June 1966 Biblo & Tannen Publishers 978-0-8196-0307-4 234 9 October – Ernest Read, conductor, organist, and music educator, 86 10 October – Herbert Kennedy Andrews, organist and composer, 61 25 November – Dame Myra Hess, pianist, 75Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 103 20 December – Henry George Farmer, musicologist, 83 See also 1965 in British radio 1965 in British television 1965 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1965 References Category:British music by year