Half-way through the 1960s decade and here are the top hits of that year, 1965. This was compiled from a list on the internet so I don’t know how it was put together save that I am almost sure it’s American.
However, each of these tracks was a hit both here and over the Atlantic so this is as close to a UK 1965 hit list as I can get.
So what else happened in 1965? To put the year in perspective, Sir Winston Churchill died, the Beatles got their MBEs, Edward Heath was elected leader of the Conservative Party, the 70mph speed limit was introduced and Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were accused of the Moors murders.
In 1960s music the UFO club is a legendary venue that, in its short existence, saw the grooming of a supergroup and top performances from some of the most influential bands of the time.
Translation between languages is a wonderful thing but in the music business perhaps there are some things that are better left untranslated!
A great group and some fantastic memories, for many people ‘The Searchers’ are the Sixties and their hits live on. 
In the 1960s Gerry & The Pacemakers were the number 2 group to emerge from Liverpool – the Mecca for the emerging British rock sound. They produced a string of world famous songs but then, somewhere along the line, they lost it!
You would never think that this strange, circular building in a not unpleasant area of North London was, for a few short years, the mecca for everything that was great about pop and music in swinging 60s Britain.
My selection of 21 tracks taken from the hits of the second half of the 1960s.
What’s really amazing is the number of top 60s singers and musicians who began their lives as part of a skiffle group.