1965 - An american dream

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"...Phil Spector is the bona fide genius of teen. Every baroque period has a flowering genius who rises up as the most glorious expression of its style of life - in latterday Rome the Emporer Commodus; in renaissance Italy, Benvenuto Cellini; in late Augustan England, the Earl of Chesterfield; in the sad, volatile Victorian age, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in late - fancy, neo - Greek Federal America, Thomas Jefferson; and in teen America, Phil Spector."

Tom Wolfe on Phil Spector

The Pop Year:

• US labour department refuses visas for British groups.
• The Cavern Club closes.
• Dylan tours UK - shown later in Pennebakers film 'Don't Look Back'.
• Alan Price leaves The Animals.
• Death of Disc Jockey Alan Freed.
• Eric Clapton leaves The Yardbirds owing to musical differences. Replaced by Jeff Beck.
• Uk invasion of The States continues as nine of the top ten are all British.
• Hermans Hermits become unlikely targets for adulation in America, far outstripping their British success.
• Dave Clark Five movie opens - 'Catch Us If You Can'.
• Dylan booed at The Newport Folk Festival for going electric.
• The Beatles play Shea Stadium.
• Andrew Loog Oldham forms Immediate Records.
• The Beatles are awarded MBE's.
• The Beatles play their last UK tour.

Singles:

Moody Blues - Go Now
• Twinkle - Terry
• Sandie Shaw - Girl Don't Come; Long Live Love
• Them - Baby Please Don't Go; Here Comes The Night
• P. J. Proby - There's a Place for Us
• Gerry and the Pacemakers - Ferry Cross the mersey
• The Righteous Brothers - You've lost that lovin' Feeling; Unchained Melody
• The Kinks - Tired of Waiting; Set me Free; See My Friend; Till the End of the Day
• Del Shannon - Keep Searchin'
• The Shangri Las - Leader of the pack
• The Animals - Don't let Me Be Misunderstood; Bring It On Home To Me; We Gotta Get Out Of This Place; It's My Life
• The Ivy League - Funny How Love Can be
• The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You; World Of Our Own; The Carnival is Over
• Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders - The Game of Love
• Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
• The Rolling Stones - The Last Time;Satisfaction; Get Off Of My Cloud
• Dobie Gray - The In Crowd
• Herman's Hermits - Silhouettes
• The Pretty Things - Honey I Need
• Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
• Unit 4 Plus 2 - Concrete and Clay
• Cliff Richard - The Minute You're Gone
• The Beatles - Ticket To Ride; Help; We Can Work It Out; Day Tripper
• The Yardbirds - For Your Love; Heart full Of Soul; Evil Hearted You; Still I'm Sad
• The Who - I Can't Explain; Anyway Anyhow Anywhere; My Generation
• Donovan - Catch the Wind; Colours
• The Supremes - Stop In The Name Of Love
• Martha and the Vandellas - Nowhere To Run
• Roger Miller - King Of The Road
• Jackie Trent - Where Are You Now
• Bob Dylan -The Times TheyAreA - Changin'; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street
• Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song
• Manfred Mann - Oh No Not My Baby; If You Gotta Go
• Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
• The Hollies - I'm Alive; Look Through Any Window
• Bert Bacharach - Trains and Boats and Planes
• The Walker Brothers - Love Her; Make It Easy On Yourself; My Ship Is Coming In
• Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
• Dixie Cups - Iko Iko
• The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man; All I Really Want To Do
• The Fortunes - You've Got Your Troubles
• Dusty Springfield - In The Middle Of Nowhere; Some Of Your Lovin'
• Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs - Wooly Bully
• The Four Tops - I Can't help Myself
• Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe
• Ken Dodd - Tears; The River
• Barry McGuire - The Eve Of Destruction
• The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
• The Beach Boys - California Girls; Help Me Rhonda
• Andy Williams - Almost There
• Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
• Chris Andrews - Yesterday Man
• Hedgehoppers Anonymous - It's Good News Week
• Len Barry - 1-2-3
• The Everly Brothers - Love Is Strange
• The Toys - A Lover's Concerto
• James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
• The Four Seasons - Let's Hang On
• The Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
• The Barron Knights - Pop Go The Workers

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Albums:

• Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones No. 2; Out Of Our Heads
• The Beatles - Help; Rubber Soul
• Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited
• The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
• Cilla Black - Cilla
• The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
• Sonny and Cher - All I Really Want To Do; Look At Us
• Dave Clark Five - Catch Us If You Can
• Donovan - What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
• Marriane Faithfull - Come My Way
• Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders - Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders
• Herman's Hermits - Herman's Hermits
• Matt Munro - I Have Dreamed
• Gene Pitney - Looking Through the Eyes Of Love
• The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things
• The Rockin' Berries - In Town
• The Seekers - A World Of Our Own
• Sandie Shaw - Sandie
• Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
• Dusty Springfield - Everything's Coming Up Dusty
• The Who - My Generation
• The Moody Blues - The Magnificent Moody Blues
• Joan Baez - Joan Baez 5; Farewell Angelina
• Manfred Mann - Mann Made
• The Hollies - The Hollies
• The Kinks - Kinks Kontroversy; Kinda Kinks

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In the news:

• American opinion is divided about involvement in Vietnam war. The first protestor is arrested
• US troops go on the offensive in South Vietnam. Martin Luthor King calls for an end to the war
• The Kray brothers are arrested and cleared of charges of running a protection racket
• Stanley Mathews is knighted
• Winston Churchill dies
• Malcolm X is assassinated
• Cigarette advertising is banned on British TV
• Edward Heath becomes Tory leader
• Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters take LSD
• First woman judge is appointed in britain
• The photographer David baily is married to French actress Catherine deneuve
• Indian and Pakistan dispute Kashmir. India invades pakistan
• Ian Brady and Myra Hindley arrested for Moors murders
• Kenneth Tynan utters television's first four - letter word on BBC2
• Christmas truce in Vietnam
• Protests continue in the US, despite civil rights bill. March in Selma Alabama is attacked by whites
• Three days of rioting in Watts LA. 18000 national guards are needed to quell the violence
• Ian Smith declares a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Rhodesia
• Race relations board set up in UK
• Hanging is abolished in UK
• Comprehensive schools are introduced
• Police arrest mods and rockers in Brighton
• Anti Vietnam demonstrations in paris
• De Gaulle condemns American involvement in Latin America and S. E. Asia

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T.V:

• Peyton Place
• Going For a Song
• Call My Bluff
• Stingray
• Jackanory
• Out of the Unknown
• Not Only - But Also
• The Worker
• World of Sport
• Thunderbirds
• BBC3

Top Ten

1. Royal Variety Show
2. Coronation Street
3. Take Your Pick
4. Riviera Police
5. No Hiding place
6. Double Your money
7. This Week
8. Love Story
9. Crane
10. Emergency ward 10

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Films:

• The Knack
• Help
• The Ipcress Files
• Catch Us If You Can
• Dr Zhivago
• The Sound Of Music
• What's New Pussycat
• For A Few Dollars More

Books:

• An American Dream - Norman Mailer
• The Comedians - Graham Green
• Landlocked - Doris Lessing
• The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre
• The Kandy Kolored Tangerine - Flake Streamline baby - Tom Woolf

Dune - Frank Herbert