Read 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music Online
Authors: Andrew Grant Jackson
Monkees
Montague, Magnificent
Montauk, Paul
Moody Blues
Moon, Keith
Moore, Sam
Moore, Warren “Pete”
Morrissey, Paul
Morrison, Jim
Morrison, Norman
Morrison, Sterling
Morrison, Van
Moscoso, Victor
Most, Mickie
Motown
Moyers, Bill
Muddy Waters
Mugwumps
Muhammad, Elijah
Muldaur, Maria
Murphy, Anne
Myddle Class
Name, Billy
Nashville, Tenn.
Nelson, Willie
Neuwirth, Bobby
Newton, Huey
Nichols, Mike
Nicholson, Jack
Nico
Nitzsche, Jack
Nixon, Richard
Noebel, David A.
Nolen, Jimmy
Noone, Peter
Norman, Philip
Ochs, Phil
Odetta
Odum, Bernard
Oldham, Andrew Loog
Ondine
Ono, Yoko
Ormsby-Gore, David
Owen, Alun
Owens, Bonnie
Owens, Buck
Owens, Frank
Page, Jimmy
Pallenberg, Anita
Palmer, Robert
Parker, Bobby
Parker, Charlie
Parker, Colonel Tom
Parker, Maceo
Parker, Theodore
Parks, Rosa
Patton, Charley
Paturel, Bernard
Paul, Clarence
Paulekas, Vito
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Paxton, Tom
Payne, Leon
Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter and Gordon
Phillips, John
Phillips, Mackenzie
Phillips, Michelle
Phillips, Sam
Pickett, Wilson
Pincus, Gregory “Goody”
Piserchio, Gino
Pleasant, Betty
Polizzotti, Mark
Pop, Iggy
Porter, David
Prater, Dave
Presley, Elvis
Presley, Priscilla
Pretty Things
Price, Alan
Pride, Charley
Prince Buster
Purcell, Henry
Quant, Mary
? and the Mysterians
Ram Dass
Ramones
Rankin, Kenny
Reagan, Ronald
Redding, Otis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reeb, Reverend James
Reed, Lou
Rich, Don
Richards, Keith
Righteous Brothers
Riley, John
Rimbaud, Arthur
Ripani, Richard J.
Rising Sons
Rivers, Johnny
Robbins, Marty
Robbins, Paul Jay
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Claudette
Robinson, Smokey
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rolling Stones
Romney, Mitt
Ronettes
Rooftop Singers
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosenquist, James
Ross, Diana
Ross, Scott
Rothchild, Paul
Rotolo, Suze
Rovell, Marilyn
Rubin, Jerry
Ruffin, David
Rumsfeld, Donald
Ruscha, Ed
Russell, Leon
Ryder, Mitch
Sadler, Barry
Safer, Morley
St. Marie, Buffy
Sam and Dave
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Sanders, Ed
Sanders, Farrell “Pharoah”
Sanger, Margaret
Saxon, Sky
Schaffner, Nicholas
Schulz, Charles
Schwartz, Loren
Scorsese, Martin
Scott-Heron, Gil
Seale, Bobby
Sebastian, John
Sedgwick, Edie
Seeds
Seeger, Pete
Seekers
Sellers, Peter
Shankar, Ravi
Shrimpton, Chrissie
Shrimpton, Jean
Simon, Paul
Simon and Garfunkel
Simone, Nina
Sims, Speedo
Sinatra, Frank
Sinatra, Nancy
Sir Douglas Quintet
Skatalites
Sledge, Percy
Slick, Grace
Sloan, P. F.
Softley, Mick
Sonics
Sonny and Cher
Sounds Orchestral
Sovine, Red
Spector, Phil
Spector, Ronnie
Spock, Benjamin
Spokesmen
Springfield, Dusty
Springsteen, Bruce
Stanley, Owsley
Stanton, Frank
Staples, Mavis
Staples, Roebuck “Pops”
Staple Singers
Starr, Ringo
Stax Records
Steinbeck, John
Stewart, Ian
Stewart, Jim
Stills, Stephen
Streisand, Barbra
Strieber, Anne
Stubbs, Levi
Sun Ra
Supremes
Talmy, Shel
Tarplin, Marv
Taylor, Derek
Temptations
Tex, Joe
Them
Thompson, Hunter S.
Thurmond, Strom
Tiegel, Eliot
Toots and the Maytals
Tork, Peter
Tosh, Peter
Townshend, Pete
Tucker, Maureen
Turner, Tina
Turtles
Tyner, McCoy
Unterberger, Richie
Valens, Richie
Vandellas
Van Dyke, Earl
Van Gelder, Rudy
Velvet Underground
Vietnam War
Vincent, Gene
Viva
Vivian, C. T.
Volman, Mark
Voormann, Klaus
Wagoner, Porter
Wailer, Bunny
Wailers
Walker Brothers
Wallace, George
Warhol, Andy
Watts, Alan
Watts, Charlie
Watts riots
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Weavers
We Five
Weil, Cynthia
Wein, Chuck
Weinberg, Jack
Weir, Bob
Weller, Sheila
Wells, Mary
Wenner, Jann
Westmoreland, William
Wexler, Jerry
White, Edward Higgins
White, Ronald
Whiteley, Sheila
Whitfield, Norman
Who
Williams, Hank
Williams, Larry
Williams, Otis
Williams, Paul
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Brian
Wilson, Carl
Wilson, Dennis
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Mary
Wilson, Murry
Wilson, Tom
Wilson, Wes
Wilson, Woodrow
Wolfe, Tom
Wonder, Stevie
Wrecking Crew
Wright, Johnnie
Wyman, Bill
Yanovsky, Zal
Yardbirds
Yarrow, Peter
Young, Faron
Young, Neil
Young Rascals
Zamudio, Domingo “Sam”
Zappa, Frank
Zombies
The Beatles pose as a marching band while filming their second feature film,
Help!
, in Obertauern, Austria, in March.
From left:
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison.
(Courtesy of United Artists/Photofest)
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Embankment Gardens, London, on April 27. Dylan’s tour of England would be captured in the documentary feature
Don’t Look Back
, directed by D. A. Pennebaker.
(Courtesy of Bettmann/Corbis/Associated Press)
James Brown warms up for the Los Angeles syndicated TV show
Shivaree
on June 26, three weeks after the release of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”
(Courtesy of Photofest)
Andy Warhol, taboo-bursting artist, filmmaker, and manager of the Velvet Underground, with model/actress Edie Sedgwick, muse to Bob Dylan and Lou Reed.
(Courtesy of the Associated Press)
Stevie Wonder (
foreground
) with the Motown musicians known as the Funk Brothers: producer Clarence Paul (
behind Wonder
);
back row, from left:
Joe Hunter on piano, Larry Veeder on guitar, Benny Benjamin on drums, James Jamerson on bass, and Mike Terry on sax.
(Courtesy of Photofest)
Folk singer–turned–pop star Marianne Faithfull enjoyed a string of Top 10 U.K. hits throughout the year and was perhaps one of the inspirations for Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”
(Courtesy of London Records/Photofest)