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November 27, 1965 Author Ken Kesey and his band of "Merry Pranksters" hold the first "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in San Francisco.
November 4, 1965 Jeff Scott Soto (of Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen band) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
October 21, 1965 Bill Black, a bandleader who played bass for Elvis Presley, dies of a brain tumor at age 39.
October 9, 1965 The Ohio State University marching band plays "Hang On Sloopy" for the first time when their football team takes on Illinois. It soon becomes an OSU favorite, and in 1985 is designated the state song of Ohio.
October 7, 1965 Manfred Mann become one of the first Western bands to play behind the Iron Curtain when they do a show in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
October 1, 1965 At a concert at Carnegie Hall, Bob Dylan introduces his new band. Formerly Ronnie Hawkins' backup band, they were known as The Hawks, but soon became The Band.
September 13, 1965 The ill-fated variety program The Steve Lawrence Show, starring the big band singer and featuring guest star Lucille Ball, debuts on CBS-TV.
August 17, 1965 Drummer Steve Gorman, a founding member of The Black Crowes, is born in Muskegon, Michigan. His time with the band ends in 2015; in 2019 he publishes a tell-all memoir called Hard To Handle. His pick for their best album: The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion from 1992.
August 15, 1965 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York - home of The Mets - marking the first time a rock band headlines a stadium in America. With Beatlemania in full force, the screaming girls drown out the band in a less-than-intimate, but very memorable performance in front of a sold-out crowd of 56,000.More
July 25, 1965 Dylan plugs in! At the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan plays an electric set for the first time, horrifying folkies everywhere.More
July 6, 1965 Marty Balin starts recruiting members for the band that will become Jefferson Airplane.
July 5, 1965 Dick Clark launches a musical variety show called Where The Action Is, with Paul Revere & the Raiders as the house band. The show lasts 3 seasons on ABC and features many top musical acts of the era.
June 12, 1965 Sonny and Cher make their US television debut, singing "Just You" on American Bandstand.
May 17, 1965 Trent Reznor is born Michael Trent Reznor in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He develops a passion for playing classical piano as a child, before going on to form the influential industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. He later teams with Atticus Ross to score films like The Social Network and Gone Girl.
May 6, 1965 At a hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones can't sleep because there's a guitar riff running through his head. He rolls a tape, falls asleep and wakes up the next morning to find he's recorded the riff to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."More
May 1, 1965 British Invasion band Herman's Hermits hit #1 in America with "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter," a very English song first heard on a BBC show called The Lads in 1963.
March 13, 1965 Eric Clapton, concerned that the band is becoming too commercial, leaves The Yardbirds. His replacement is Jeff Beck.
March 8, 1965 David Bowie makes his first TV appearance when his band The Manish Boys appears on the British show Gadzooks! At the time, he's still known as David Jones.
January 12, 1965 Rob Zombie is born Robert Cummings in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He works as a production assistant for the popular children's series Pee-Wee's Playhouse before forming the band White Zombie.
December 23, 1964 Eddie Vedder is born Edward Severson III in Evanston, Illinois (Vedder is his mom's maiden name). He gets the gig fronting Pearl Jam by writing lyrics and singing on an instrumental demo tape his soon-to-be bandmates compiled. Those three songs make it to their debut album, Ten, and one of them, "Alive," becomes one of their best-known songs.
November 6, 1964 Corey Glover (lead singer of Living Colour) is born in Brooklyn, New York. His future bandmate Vernon Reid discovers him singing "Happy Birthday" at a mutual friend's party.
September 30, 1964 Phish phrontman Trey Anastasio of is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He forms the band in 1983 when he's a student at the University of Vermont. They gradually build a very dedicated fan base drawn to their wild improvisations and sense of community.
September 5, 1964 British group The Animals hit #1 in America with "The House Of The Rising Sun," a folk song set in New Orleans about either a brothel or a prison.More
August 28, 1964 The Beatles smoke pot for the first time, supplied by Bob Dylan, who joins the band after one of their concerts in New York state. Dylan is surprised they haven't tried it before, as he thought they sang "I get high" in their song "I Want To Hold Your Hand," when it was really "I can't hide."
July 9, 1964 Courtney Love is born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, California. After a tumultuous childhood, she travels the world and forms the band Hole. In 1992, she marries Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
May 30, 1964 Guitarist Tom Morello is born in Harlem, New York. He graduates from Harvard in 1986 with a degree in political science, and in 1991 forms Rage Against The Machine, becoming heavily involved in activism. When Rage disbands in 2000 he forms Audioslave with lead singer Chris Cornell.
May 26, 1964 Lenny Kravitz is born in Manhattan, New York, to The Jeffersons actress Roxie Roker and TV executive Sy Kravitz. He releases his debut album, Let Love Rule, in 1989.More
May 3, 1964 Sterling Campbell is born in New York City. An accomplished drummer, he has stints in several bands including Duran Duran, Soul Asylum and The B-52s.
April 2, 1964 It's a big day for The Beach Boys, who record their first #1 hit, "I Get Around," and also fire their manager, Murry Wilson, who happens to be the father of three of the band members, including leader Brian Wilson, who feels his dad is hindering their progress with unwelcome critiques at their recording sessions.
March 12, 1964 For the first time in the history of the UK charts, there are no American acts in the Top 10, as British acts like The Rolling Stones take hold in their home country as well.More
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