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A World Of Her OwnThe Chrys-Do-Lyns break up in 1965 and Lyn Paul goes solo. Lyn, who is just sixteen, is not going to find it easy to break through, joining a number of other young hopefuls such as Suzy Cope, Julie Grant, Susan Holliday and Patsy Ann Noble.
The Seekers
Whilst acknowledging the New Seekers' inheritance from the original Seekers, Lyn and the other members of the group were also keen to bring something "new" to the tradition. Georgy Girl / Ticket To Ride emphasized their determination to distinguish themselves from the folksy sound of The Springfields and The Seekers - at once a tribute to their predecessors but also a clear sign that they were moving on to pastures new.
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| In the News - 1965 | |
| Jan | T.S. Eliot dies in London on 4th January, aged 76. On Thursday, 7th January the twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray are remanded into custody on charges of demanding money with menaces from the owner of a Soho club. The singer and actress Jeanette MacDonald dies from heart failure on 14th January, aged 61. The Soviet Union carries out an underground nuclear test in Kazakhstan on 15th January. The explosion forms a crater 100 meters deep, which fills with water to create Lake Chagan. Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated as the 36th President of the USA on Friday, 22nd November. Sir Winston Churchill dies at his home in London on Sunday, 24th January, aged 90. A funeral service, attended by leaders from around the world, is held at St. Paul's Cathedral on 30th January. On 26th January Hindi replaces English as the official language of India. |
| Feb | The original version of Joe Orton's play Loot premieres at the Theatre Arts, Cambridge on 1st February, starring Kenneth Williams, Ian McShane and Geraldine McEwan. Spanish forces begin a blockade of Gibraltar on 3rd February. On 4th February Alaska is hit by an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale. It generates a tsunami of about 10.7 metres. On 8th February the UK government announces a ban on cigarette advertising on television. Nat 'King' Cole dies of lung cancer on 15th February, aged 45. Canada flies its new national flag - a red maple leaf design by George Stanley - for the first time on 15th February at an official ceremony held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. On Sunday, 21st February the black nationalist leader Malcolm X is shot dead in New York. Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy fame) dies on 23rd February, aged 74. Goldie the golden eagle escapes from Regent's Park Zoo on 28th February while his cage is being cleaned. He is recaptured 12 days later. |
| Mar | Two battalions of US Marines arrive just north of Da Nang, South Vietnam on 8th March, effecting President Lyndon Johnson's previously stated intention of joining the battle against communism "with strength and determination". On 18th March Russian astronaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first man to "walk" (and somersault) in space. On 20th March France Gall wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg with the song Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son. For the second year running the UK entry finishes in second place, on this occasion Kathy Kirby singing I Belong. On 27th March Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds. Following outbreaks of racial violence in Selma, Alabama, a protest march led by Dr. Martin Luther King delivers a petition to the State Governor in Montgomery on Sunday, 28th March. Awaiting the marchers are celebrity sympathizers, among them Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Junior, conductor Leonard Bernstein and novelist James Baldwin. The Viet Cong detonate a car-bomb outside the US embassy in Saigon on 30th March, killing 22 people and injuring 183 others. |
| Apr | My Fair Lady wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards ceremony on 5th April. On 6th April a jury finds the Kray twins not guilty of running a protection racket. On 11th April The Seekers perform at the New Musical Express poll winners' concert at London's Wembley Empire Pool. The other acts on the bill are: The Animals, The Beatles, Cilla Black, Donovan, Freddie & the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits, Tom Jones, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones and Them. West Germany pays its 13th and final annual installment of reparations to Israel on 15th April. Britain's first long-distance footpath, the Pennine Way, is officially opened on Saturday, 24th April. Luciano Pavarotti makes his début at La Scala, Milan on 28th April in a revival of Franco Zeffirelli's production of La bohème. At the end of April the British government publishes a White Paper proposing the re-nationalisation of the steel industry. |
| May | Cambodia breaks off diplomatic relations with the USA on 3rd May. The Cambodian government says it holds the USA responsible for the deaths of Cambodian citizens, killed in recent cross-border air strikes by South Vietnam. North Vietnamese guerrillas are allowed to set up bases in Cambodia to continue their campaign against the US-backed government in South Vietnam. On 7th May the Rhodesian Front led by Ian Smith wins all 50 of the parliamentary seats reserved for whites in elections held in Rhodesia. 17,000 people are killed when monsoon winds hit Bangladesh on 11th May. West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations on 12th May. On Thursday, 20th May the Home Secretary, Sir Frank Soskice, announces to the House of Commons that the British police are to be equipped with tear-gas guns and grenades for use against armed criminals. 268 miners are killed on 28th May in an explosion and fire at the Dhori coal mine in Dhanbad, India. |
| June | The Beatles are awarded MBEs in The Queen's Birthday Honours List announced on 12th June. The "Fab Four" go to Buckingham Palace to be invested with their medals on Tuesday, 26th October. Several previous recipients return their awards in protest. On 13th June the Viet Cong defeat the South Vietnamese in the Battle of Dong Xoai. On 18th June the UK government announces plans to set a blood alcohol limit for drivers. The new Road Safety Bill, which set a limit of 80mg of alcohol in 100cc of blood, was introduced in January 1966. On 19th June the President of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, is deposed by the chief of the armed forces, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, and his National Revolutionary Council. Country singer Ira Louvin dies in a car crash on 20th June, aged 41. |
| July | Ronnie Biggs, one of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery in August 1963, escapes from Wandsworth Prison on Thursday, 8th July during the prisoners' afternoon exercise session. Biggs had served 15 months of a 30-year jail sentence. The Swiss mountaineer Yvette Vaucher becomes the first woman to climb the Matterhorn when she reaches the summit on 14th July. On Thursday, 15th July the US space probe Mariner IV sends back to Earth the first-ever close-up photographs of Mars. The images reveal a landscape of craters and plains, but no signs of life. The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, is inaugurated by the French president, Charles de Gaulle, and the Italian President, Giuseppe Saragat on 16th July. It opens to traffic on 19th July. On Thursday, 22nd July Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones are each found guilty and fined £5 for urinating against a wall at the Francis Service Station in Forest Gate, East London in March. Bob Dylan gives his first electric concert at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, 25th July. The Maldive Islands gain independence from Britain on 26th July. Edward Heath is elected leader of the Conservative Party on 27th July. The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer defeats the shadow Foreign Secretary, Reginald Maudling, and the shadow Transport Minister, Enoch Powell, to succeed Sir Alec Douglas-Home as leader. The World Premiere of The Beatles' film Help! is held at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London on 29th July. Cigarette adverts appear on British TV for the last time on 31st July. |
| Aug | President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act on 6th August in the presence of civil rights leaders. The Act gives the right to vote to black people in the southern States of the USA. Singapore gains its independence from Malaysia on 9th August. On Friday, 13th August National Guardsmen are brought in to help the police quell riots in the Watts district of Los Angeles. The Beatles give a concert at New York's Shea Stadium on 15th August, attended by 55,000 fans. NASA astronauts Charles 'Pete' Conrad and Gordon Cooper splash down in the Atlantic on 29th August after almost eight days orbiting Earth in Gemini V. The mission sets a new world record for the duration of a crewed spaceflight. |
| Sep | On Monday, 6th September Indian troops cross the border into West Pakistan. After three weeks at war India and Pakistan agree to a UN-sponsored cease-fire. A small ad appears in New York’s Daily Variety on 8th September, looking for "4 insane boys, age 17–21" to join the world’s first manufactured boy band, The Monkees. Tennis star Billie Jean Moffitt marries attorney Larry King in Long Beach, California on 17th September. The British Petroleum Company (BP) strikes oil in the North Sea on 21st September. A constitutional conference in London (7th - 24th September) on the future of Mauritius ends with a promise of independence in 1966. The US silent film star Clara Bow dies in Los Angeles, California, on 27th September, aged 60. On 28th September Fidel Castro offers Cubans the opportunity to emigrate to the USA to join their relatives already living there. |
| Oct | Pope Paul VI makes the first papal visit to the United States, arriving in New York on Monday, 4th October to address the United Nations General Assembly, before later celebrating Mass for 80,000 at Yankee Stadium. On Friday, 8th October London's Post Office Tower is opened by the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. On 28th October Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are charged with the murder of Lesley Ann Downey. On the same day Pope Paul VI officially proclaims that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ "cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today." |
| Nov | A massive power failure on 9th November blacks our New York City, parts of eight north-eastern States and parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11th November. In the UK emergency legislation is rushed through Parliament imposing trade sanctions against Rhodesia. On 13th November the drama critic Kenneth Tynan uses the word "fuck" in a live television debate on censorship, broadcast on the BBC's late-night satirical show BBC-3. The BBC issues a formal apology. Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, who founded the Clean Up TV campaign in January 1964, writes to The Queen to protest. "I think Kenneth Tynan should have his bottom smacked." On 29th November Mrs. Whitehouse launches the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, a new pressure group to succeed the Clean Up TV campaign. The Venus 3 space probe is launched by the Soviet Union on 16th November to explore the surface of Venus. On 24th November a 70mph speed limit is introduced on UK motorways. |
| Dec | The Race Relations Act comes into force in the UK on 8th December. W. Somerset Maugham dies on 16th December, aged 91. Broadcaster Richard Dimbleby dies of cancer on 22nd December, aged 52. Thirteen men are killed on 27th December when the Sea Gem oil rig collapses into the North Sea. Ferdinand E. Marcos is inaugurated as the 10th President of the Philippines on 30th December. |
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Tennis: Roy Emerson beats his fellow Australian Fred Stolle for the second year in a row to win the men's singles title at the Australian Championships (7-9, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1). |
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