Welcome to the mid 1960s!
Share what you know about the year you were born.
I was born in March 1965 so today was a big birthday, although I didn’t have a big party or anything. To be honest I hadn’t been looking forward to it, but I chose to mark the day by resigning from work, and that prospect definitely enabled me to forget about the birthday itself! So what was happening in 1965?
Musically it was an incredible year. I was born in the 60s and came of age in the 80s, which were the two greatest decades of music ever, so I was very lucky. Look at the Top 40 from the day I was born as an example. At Number 1 were the Rolling Stones with The Last Time, Tom Jones the previous week’s Number 1 was at Number 2 with It’s Not Unusual, Number 4 were The Seekers with slowly going down the charts with I’ll Never Find Another You another chart topper from February, Future Number 1 Concrete and Clay by Unit Four Plus Two were at Number 18 while previous Number 1 singles, Tired of Waiting for You by The Kinks and You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling by The Righteous Brothers were still in the Top 40. That’s not a bad set of songs is it?
TV on the other hand …. well it wasn’t great. The Doctor Who adventure closest to my birthday was the previous day’s The Web Planet featuring some of the ropiest looking monsters ever! On my birthday, which was a Sunday, well take a look for yourselves! Z Cars was a reasonably good programme, but otherwise it was dire!
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1965-03-21
If you are interested in a really deep dive into the news of the year you will find it at the top of my Christmas Magazines Through The Years Woman’s Own Christmas Annual 1965 which is here
So, it was a good year for music, although not so great for TV, and the news was the usual mix of good and bad. I have taken a look at the year of my birth on a few occasions, and have always found something interesting when I have. Obviously, it is a year in which I have an academic interest because I have no conscious memory of it, but it’s always good to put your birth year in context. Here then is my favourite song from the charts on the day I was born.
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It seems the BBC was a lot better then. I’d watch more of it that was the kind of output these days. Great song by the Seekers too and love the vibe and aesthetic of the video. It is also very interesting to see the world one was born into and to think of ones parents and grandparents living their lives in that time I think.
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I think the 70s and 80s were pretty good in terms of bringing people the Reithian ideals.
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