The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year’s biggest artists. Songs by many acts that never repeated their showcase moments in the ...

“Nineteen sixty-five is the moment in rock history when the Technicolor butterfly burst out of its black-and-white cocoon.” That’s the opening line of “1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music,” ...

Few eras of music are as legendary as the mid-1960s. Pop music was amazing, psychedelia was on the rise, and even rock music was evolving in interesting ways. And at the center of that period, the ...

As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of Velvet Underground classics recorded in 1965, along with several songs ...

The 11 titles were “Buttercup Song,” “Buzz Buzz Buzz,” “Heroin,” two versions of “I'm Waiting for the Man,” “Men of Good Fortune,” “Pale Blue Eyes,” “Stockpile,” “Too Late,” “Walk Alone” and “Wrap ...