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What happened in The year 1965 ?

•  In 1965 the Beatles released their ground breaking sixth album “Rubber Soul”.
• The Supremes had their sixth number one in the U.S. Billboard charts.
• Tom Jones  had his first U.K. Number one with “It’s Not Unusual”.

January 1965

• 12th Hullabaloo the American NBC variety show first aired, The first broadcast featured The New Christy Minstrels, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and The Zombies.
• The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison began a tour of Australia and New Zealand starting at the Manufactures' Auditorium in Sydney.
• The Zombies and the Nashville Teens cancelled their tour in the U.S. because of a visa problem.
• The Who released “I Can’t Explain” on the Brunswick label and it reached number eight in the U.K. Charts.
• The Chuck Berry Tour  opened in London  with Supporting acts including The Moody Blues, Long John Baldry and the Graham Bond Organisation.
• In January the Animals were stopped from performing  in New York by the U.S. immigration department..
• Alan Freed the D.J. credited with the phrase Rock ‘n’ Roll died at the age of forty four.

February 1965

• Nat King Cole died at the age of 48.
• Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox at Caxton Hall, London.
• P.J. Proby on stage split his trousers and was banned from appearing in any ABC’s theatres.
• Jeff Beck formerly of the Tridents joined the Yarbirds after Eric Clapton  left the group.
• The Adam Faith / Sandie Shaw tour began with The Paramounts, the Barron Knights, The Roulettes, Patrick Kerr and Freddie Earle.
• The Walker Brothers arrived in Britain.

March 1965

• Kathy Kirby with the song “I Belong” reached second place for Britain in the Eurovision song contest.
• Big Beat Nite Out tour included The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Animals and Screaming Lord Sutch.
• Petula Clark made her American TV debut on CBS-TV's the Ed Sullivan Show.
• The Tamla Motown Revue package arrived in the U.K. Including Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and Martha and the Vandellas. They started the tour at the Finsbury Park Astoria, in London and appeared at The Colston Hall, Bristol on the 23rd March.
• Bobby Vee and Dusty Springfield appeared at The Odeon Cinema, Stockton, Cleveland also on the bill were Heinz and The Searchers.

April  1965

• Artists who appeared at the NME Poll-Winners Concert staged at the Empire Pool, London in April included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black, The Kinks,  Dusty Springfield, The Seekers, Twinkle, Them, Georgie Fame, The Walker Brothers, Moody Blues, and the Animals.
• Bob Dylan  appeared at the Q.E. Theatre, Vancouver.
• The Hollies performed in America for the first time at New York's Paramount Theatre.
• The Ready, Steady Go show had a one hour special presented by Dusty Springfield called the “Sound of Motown”. Some of the artists featured were Stevie Wonder, The

         The Supremes, Earl Van Dyke, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Martha & the           Vandellas and the Temptations.

• The Zombies released their “Begin Here” album.

May  1965

• Herman’s Hermits had a number one hit record in the U.S. with “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter” and later in August with “I’m Henry the Eighth I Am”.
• At the San Francisco, Civic Auditorium “Boss of the Bay” included The Rolling Stones, Beau Brummels, Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Byrds.
• Alan Price left the Animals.
• Bob Dylan was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital in London with a viral infection.
• The Hollies, The Walker Brothers and the Yardbirds began a U.K. Tour.

June  1965

• The American Folk Music tour opened at the Birmingham Town Hall, artists included Rambling Jack Elliot, Buffy Saint-Marie and Julie Felix.
• John Lennon’s second book A Spaniard In The Works was first published.
• June 19th The Uxbridge Blues and folk Festival  The performers included The Who, Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Solomon Burke, the Ray Martin Group, the Spencer Davis Group, Marianne Faithfull, the Birds and Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers.

July 1965

• “Help” opened in the U.K. and the following month opened in the U.S.
•  Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones appeared in court in     London and were found guilty and fined for using insulting behaviour.
• Bob Dylan in July went electric and was booed by the folk purists at the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival . He later released his “Highway 61 Revisited” album which featured “Like a Rolling Stone”.
• The Dave Clark Five's movie “Catch Us If You Can” or the alternative name “Having A Wild Weekend”, opened in London.

August 1965

•  6th - 8th  The Richmond National Jazz & Blues Festival held at the Richmond Athletic Grounds, Surrey. Some of the artists which appeared that weekend were Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, Long John Baldry, Chris Barber, Kenny Ball, The Who, The Animals and The Spencer Davis Group.
• August 14th  The Beatles recorded their  Ed Sullivan show performance and continued their eleven venue tour which started at New York’s Shea Stadium on the 15th of August with their largest ever audience 55,000 people.and finished on 31st of August at the Cow Palace San Francisco.
• The Beatles met Elvis Presley.

September 1965  

•  Donovan appeared on American television for the first time (Shindig).
• The Beatles got the Grammy award for the best group.
• The Kinks began their first tour of the U.S.
• Manfred Mann, the Moody Blues, the Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
• Paul Simon song book was released in the U.K.
• The Small Faces released their single “Watcha Gonna Do About It.”.

October 1965

• The Beatles received their M.B.E’s from the queen (Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).
• The Hollies released their album called “Reflection”
• Spencer Davis Group release “Their First L.P.” album on Fontana Records.
• The Lovin Spoonful released their first album “Do You Believe in Magic”.
• The Rolling Stones appeared at the ABC, Stockton on Tees with the Spencer Davis Group, Unit Four + 2, The Checkmates, The End, and Charles Dickens and The Habits.
• Johnny Cash was arrested in El Paso, Texas on drug charges. He pleaded guilty and was given a 30-day suspended sentence and fined.
• Bill Black  bass and double bass player with Elvis Presley and also the leader of The Bill Black's Combo died four months after having surgery to remove a brain tumour.
• Manfred Mann released their “Mann Made” album.
• The Rolling Stones released “Out Of Our Heads” album.

November 1965

• The Grateful Dead changed their group name from the Warlocks.
• The Walker Brothers, the Moody Blues The Fourmost and Beryl Marsden  appeared at the Colston Hall, Bristol.
• Gene Pitney, Peter & Gordon, The Rockin’ Berries and Lulu & Luvvers appeared at the ABC, Wigan.

December 1965

• The Who released their first album “My Generation”.
• Brian Poole & the Tremeloes, The Walker Brothers, and The Small Faces appeared at the ABC Romford.
• “Rubber Soul” by the Beatles was issued and hit the number one spot in the U.S. and the U.K.
• The Beatles began their tour of the United Kingdom at the Odeon, Glasgow finishing with their last ever British tour performance at the Capitol,Cardiff. Supporting artists on the tour were the Moody Blues, the Koobas, Beryl Marsden, Steve Aldo and the Paramounts (an early line-up of Procol Harum).

Formed in 1965

Small  Faces.

Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, two Los Angeles based Blues/Rock musicians formed Canned Heat.

Pink Floyd Sound were formed they later dropped the sound part from their name.

Lovin’ Spoonful.

My Backyard later Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Left Banke formed in New York.

Jefferson Airplane formed in San Francisco .

Formed in Kent, England The Herd.

The Youngbloods.

The Association formed in Los Angeles.

Formed in San Francisco The Warlocks changed to The Grateful Dead.

Shades of Blue formed in Detroit..

The Mixtures formed in Australia.

 Formed in Los Angeles The Doors.

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels.

The Monkees.

Formed in London The Action.

The Fugs.

Terry Knight & the Pack later Grand Funk Railroad.

Rising Sons formed in Los Angeles.

Los Bravos formed in Madrid, Spain.

The Cryin’ Shames.

The Move formed in Birmingham.

Alan Bown Set.

Shadows of the Knight formed in Chicago.

The Seeds formed Los Angeles.

The Incredible String Band formed in Glasgow, Scotland.

13th Floor Elevators formed in Austin, Texas.

The Prunes later The Electric  Prunes.

Formed in San Francisco The Flamin’ Groovies .

The Amboy  Dukes formed in Chicago.

Chicken Shack.

Formed in New York The Velvet Underground (later with Nico).

Sopwith Camel.

The Blues Project.

The Memphis based Box Tops quintet were formed.

The San Franciscan Big Brother & the holding company.

Country Joe & the Fish were formed in Berkeley, California.

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