The Iconic MUSIC Scene of May 1965, is Impossible to Find Today! 

There isn't any music "scene" today. It's just a bunch of minimally-talented drones in a hive.

The sixties were the pinnacle of not only music but fashion as well! Great time to be alive!

I turned 17 in 1965. To be blunt, in 1965 they created music, today they manufacture noise.

I was 18 in 1965. I can't put my finger on it, but it was almost like something magical was happening. It was in the air. Did I mention that the band I was in, opened for Jimi Hendrix the first time he performed in DC. I guess I did - and Yes, he was that good!

I was an 18 year old then. And I often say when asked if I could be that age again, would I? Answer: Yes..if it was 1965. No, if it was today’s world. No thanks!

If you were not around in America during any part of the 1950s-1970s then you missed the show.

The mid 50s to 82 was the best era to live in

I was born in 1945 and in college in the 60s. What I know is we were for more serious about music, and it was far more important to us than younger people now.

Back then everyone followed the music - now chasing money is the game. Prefer the music... 😊

I got engaged May 1965! We celebrate 58 yrs this October!

I was 15 and I'm so glad that I grew up during this time!

Born in 1950.. it’s a memory for me not something I have to imagine.. thank goodness! It was so much fun!!!!

I was born in 1989 but absolutely love the music of 65.

I love the nostalgic look back on music, fashion & pop culture of the 60s but what really blows my mind is how little money it took to live a middle class lifestyle compared to today. I know what my parents paid for their first house circa 1970(under 20k) & it now lists for 1 million. I was only 5 in 65 but I have a lot of memories of the decade being very optimistic about the future (at least in America which recovered from the war much faster than the UK) The 70s were very different after multiple assassinations, Vietnam, Watergate, gas crisis, rising crime rates..the 60s were a special time & deserve to be remembered.

I was 16 in May of '65 with a fresh new driver's license. It was a great time to be a teenager.

I was only 6 years old, but I would come to know and love this music. With four older siblings playing music how could I not. The 60’s and 70’s can’t be matched. ☺️🤩

I was born in 1965...my older sisters were born in 1950 and 1953. My house was filled with great music. The oldest was a Monkees fan and the middle child was into Carole King and Mowtown. Then came me...I was into a lot of 70s music including Disco!😮 "Mr. Holland's Opus" takes place over my entire lifetime. As an adult, I became a NYC cabaret singer. I sang anything from the 1930s thru the 70s. Good times!

No other time can beat the 60's and 70's.

I remember 1966 hearing Donovan Sunshine Superman as a 5 year old at the public pool. Todays music SUCKS. The Beach Boys, the Monkees, the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks will never be topped. Color TV came out in 65, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island ....I loved Jeannie!

I was born in 1960 and the world changed forever. 😊

Well just occasionally we can still find it today ... We saw The Manfreds a few months ago in London. An amazing show. Such talented guys still on form at around 80 years old.

I was 15 in 1965 here in the UK and I enjoyed listening to Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Elvis Presley and Motown among others. When the Beatles, came onto the scene along with other groups and singers from Liverpool a couple of years later the music industry really changed in the UK and across the world. The fashion industry changed also and was extremely successful especially among young people. A wonderful time to be in during the 1960's and 1970's. Music of today is different and will probably not be remembered as much as the music of the music I enjoyed during my time as a teenager.

There was a feeling at the time that we as a people were on the verge of discovering the meaning of Life the Universe and Everything.

Getting ready for high school with radio on and this song comes on and blows me away. Completely different music which I instinctively know will be my generations. The Beatles obsession hits us and high school like a bomb with the girls claiming each Beatle. I was cute one, Paul. The boys transform into Beatle boots and long hair. The 60's were truly magical.

I do miss that year. I came to Canada from Hungary in 1965! I was 10. And musicwise, the late 50s, 60s and very cary 70s were the best.

I was 14 and a half on May, 1965. I grew up in Manhattan. I went to NYC public schools (real different from British public school). One memory I love is that there weren't radio stations that specialized in racial sounds. We all listened to the same rock 'n roll radio. The Beatles followed the Supremes followed by Bob Dylan followed by ... (take your pick). There were genre stations (classical, jazz, big band, etc). But as for the young people's music, we grooved to each others' music. Ah, the good ole days! You certainly captured that time. It was a time when if we were going to San Francisco, we wore flowers in our hair. (Or, we were quickly building to that era.)❤️❤️

I was 6 and loved the Hermit's....also the Beatles cartoon show!....Pet Clark was huge too and surprisingly not mentioned here.

I was a Mod in Glasgow Scotland at this time and then I turned on to Kashmir Hashish from a Beatnik that I knew and then I left for London the following year and later found LSD.. I was 21 in 1969 living in London stoned every day... Wish I could remember some of those times... No regrets but i do wish I had paid more attention... Now am 76, a mature male, and wondering how, or even why, I lived this long as it certainly wasn't part of the non plan of my life... One Day at A Time.

I was five months in the womb in May '65. I was born in Columbus, Ohio October 13th. The same time the Doors were forming. They've always been my favorite band.

Kinda surprised The Seekers didn't get a mention on this vid. 1965 was a particularly busy year for the band, especially in the UK.

I was 20 years old in May of 1965. I was living in Menlo Park, California, 31 miles south of San Francisco. Everywhere there was a wonderful party, and everyone was welcome! 🥰🤩

I was in High school in 1965. Yes it was a great time to be alive. Jobs were everywhere. High paying jobs at the aircraft plants. Pepsi Cola was a dime. Everyone wanted a new Mustang, but few could afford one. Go Go boots and 57 Chevys were cool. Old Packard's and Nash Ramblers were for squares. The Beatles ran The Beach Boys and Elvis right off the radio. I remember seeing the Beatles on the ED Sullivan show on TV. My sister thought it was the greatest thing ever. I thought it was nothing special and would rather watch Mr. Ed instead. 😊

I discovered the rock music scene in its infancy, 1963, and rode it like a bronco through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and continue to ride it today. Anything truly good is damn hard to find now, but I search once in a while.

glad l was a teen in the 60s,,this was great it will never come again

Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison ❤

That's when music was still music.

I wasn't quite five but was a huge music fan already. I had six older siblings and came from a very musical family, so I had been around music literally my whole life. By late 63 I was paying attention to what my dad and siblings were listening to on the radio and record player, and when The Beatles came along I was a Beatles fan for life right off the bat. My dad would sit in our dinette and listen to top 40 radio, by the fall of 64 I was sitting there with him listening all the time. The change in the music scene from late 63 to May 65 was incredible. The top 40 was filled with great songs that were a wide variety of styles - pop, rock, folk, folk rock, R & B, even some country and 'easy listening' - and the creativity was astounding. I had no idea how lucky I was, that was just the norm for me. The music world has changed drastically in recent years, and not for the better. Hopefully things get back on track some day, though we'll never see anything like the 60's ever again.

Paul Revere and the Raiders, Syndicate of sound-Little Girl, Windy The Association, Wild Thing The Troggs etc. remember them well.

'65 was amazing. No other scene has ever or will happen again. I was lucky to have been alive then. I miss this era greatly. The stuff today is overproduced with throwaway lyrics with no freedom for young exciting artists to gain any kind of excited fanbase. No Beatlemania. No Dylan at his best. No "fun" music anymore. If I am ever reincarnated...'65, '66, and '67 would be a great place to wake up in. The most original and creative music came out of the mid-'60s era and those who missed it, go back and listen to this stuff. You WILL love it.

I was only 9 in May 1965. I lived near NYC and all us kids listened to WABC. A lot of these songs are very familiar

Petula Clark was my favorite British Invasion singer along with Simon & Garfunkel

The Rolling Stones were baby faced rockers touring California football stadiums 😂 That was my first concert, and left me & my little girlfriends enthralled for life.... Those were magical days...would love to hit the reset button and go back there, even for a week. 💝

I was just a little bit too young for this date, but it lasted for another 10 years, so I caught up with it eventually. School’s out by Alice Cooper seemed to be my breakthrough moment, just as I qualified for the school’s first XV. The world was a great place back then.

I was born in 1949. I grew up with my dad playing big band music. Listening to the music of the time was an emotional experience. It wasn't a bunch of band churning out garbage sounds, they were very talented musicians with training in classical music, blues, etc. That reflected in music the Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and even the Moody Blues. I miss those days. It's no wonder I collect music from that era to play today. Everyone loves the 60s music.

This is a brilliant presentation of British influence on American Pop music.

Saw Dylan and The Stones in Long Beach, and the Beatles twice at the Hollywood Bowl, wow we thought that it would last forever.

I was 17 in 1965. Those really were the days.

Great stuff, thank you. I was 15 in Ontario, Canada and heard and loved all this music. I was ironing my hair but hadn’t heard of the sugar hack. 😂🎼❤️🎼❤️

This is absolutely the best presentation of social history I have come across.

This music takes me back to my early childhood 🤗

"The question is where did we go wrong" -- the answer is right there in the hedonism and idol worship of those times. These pop culture icons became the role models of 3 generations of youth, their faddishly antinomian lyrics and pronouncements the scriptures of the new global religion. Meanwhile very bad people seized the levers of power. I remember that year with a mixture of fondness and despair -- still addicted to the good music from it. You're educating me about a lot.

Forget the music. If I were alive in May '65 I would have been more concerned as to wherher or not my draft card would show up in the mail and being shipped to Vietnam.

That was and always will be my era,young carefree and newly married. Loved the songs loved the fashion.

Shakin' All Over, Winnipeg represent.

Awesome Video - thanks for making it. I can still remember 1965 - my late father had an awesome Leak / Goodmans Hi-Fi with which we listened to the Top 40 Pop Songs each week. Yes it did seem like the most special of times if you were part of the Young Generation. Our parents could sense their more rigid world was slipping away from them.

I was born in1952 with a brother and He bought singles 45's mainly, the stones, Beatles kinks, the who, all that unforgettable music, I remember his mate baz johnson had a good job which allowed him to afford to buy three singles every week at 6 shillings 8 pence each which added up to 1 english pound, yes a quid, I feel fortunate those days (think) were infinitely better, but now?......nuff said, don't wanna be branded a bitter and twisted old git... thankyou.

The women looked gorgeous and dressed beautifully.

The best days of my life were in the mid-sixties. I fell in love with the music and with a girl all at the same time. A wonderful time to be alive.

❤ Here Comes the Night❤ Haven’t heard it in years 😊

I watched this video again when I had more time. The historical background is fascinating and informative, and the photos and graphics are superb. The presenter knows the subject of this video very well and has done a lot of research. This video makes me relive a time that I'm very fond of.

This is very good. Tnx! Graduated from high school in May 65. Loved "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter", had Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home" & had listened many times to all his albums to that date. Loved the Beatles, of course - they were really into a creative period. Don't think I knew anyting about pot at that time - but by May 66 believe I was really into it. So many concerns about girls & college. Actually it was the beginning of the worst period of my life, which began to turn around only in Aug 69 when a friend & I moved from Phoenix to Manhattan. BEGAN to turn around. It took until Dec 75 for it to actually turn around. What a time.

"in '65 I was 17.....Running on empty" "We were stardust, we were golden"... and then "Hey Mister Tamborine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to, I'm ready to go anywhere I'm ready for to fade into your own parade, can your dancing spell my way, I'm ready to go wandering".... and on and on... It was a magic time probably never to be repeated.

For better or worse , Bob Dylan made a video for Subterranean Homesick Blues that set the standard for future videos & MTV 📺.

The immediate testimony of Paul McCartney's testimony about their songwriting partnership is so very reliable compared the existing relationship and story.

I don’t have to imagine. I simply have to remember….and that Fall I was required to report to my local draft board. Bye, bye, L.A. ; Hello, Fort Polk, LA.

This video brings back the feeling I had growing up in the 60's

I enjoyed this video alot, thanks, Freewheeling. Its fun to look back at what it was like. I'm thankful that there is archivists that preserved films and recordings.

I was a genuine baby in may '65!

What a time to be young.The excitement of hearing these new sounds.

It was my senior year in high school and was debating about what to do the following fall. As it happened the USAF looked very appealing and it was an experience that I will never forget. Good music, good friends and innocence on my part. The right place at the right time. It really doesn't seem like that long ao - but it was. 'nuf said.....

I was 17 at that time,driving to HS in my new ‘64 GTO,cruising the drive-ins in the evening,and listening to all the newest tunes on WLS radio.What a time to be taking all this in.Even with a Vietnam service interruption ,these were the most enjoyable times of my life.I got to see many of these upstart greats perform at a number of teen-age nightclubs in Michigan later that year after graduation,and the ‘60s scene was like being on a speed high.

Awestruck by Bob Dylan. I guess you had to be there.

Awsome year in music.the byrds comes to mind .not bad even a canadien group.the guess who.shaken all over.nice.😅

Incredible couple of years 64/65 .

I was 10 in 1965 in the US, we had rocknroll on all the time, mom luved it! she took me to 11 rock concerts from1965-67, best decade ever for us kids!

Now "the music scene" is filled with the mediocre talent and out of control popularity with an overage teenage girl fan base of a certain pop diva all of whose songs sound alike and whose string of "Exes I Hate And Wish Would Die" is approaching legendary status.

I was 11. I can't really grasp how long it was from May 1965 to October 1966. That was another life!

great video. I arrived in '65, my mum and dad were cool. I remember lost of music, record players and cool cars, I can't say another era would have been better, or worse. but I'm glad I was there, ' in the 60's man !'

I was on the verge of graduating high school in 5/65. Pop music was taking a damn good foothold in America in those days. Style was getting more radical, dress and hair. I guess it all started in England and got to the US in a heartbeat, thank gawd.

We love it. Keep them coming.

I was 13 and loved the music, great time to be young

The Brits were influenced by 1950s American music.

They say if you can remember the ‘60’s you weren’t there! I was there, I think! A great walk down memory lane, thank you.

Thanks for an interesting, informative and well-narrated video!

The best time to have been a teen, everything was new and exciting, not like today's humdrum society.

I was 4 in 1965, and even then I was all in for the Beatles, and no Saturday was complete without American Bandstand. Popular music today has - for better or worse - become so splintered that it is impossible to have a "scene," except in the most niche sense.

This was really excellent. You covered a lot of ground here and got a real flavour of the time.

The 60s. So innocent and influential we were. I was 11 in 66 and I can say there will never be a better decade for many things but music was something that is so entrenched in my mind from the era with automobiles a close second, they both peaked in quality and desirability. I never tried to make a fashion statement, I just kept it simple and cool with the hot days in south Arkansas with sleeveless shirts and cotten trousers but the threads that some wore in those days were, 7:07 how ya say “OUTTA SIGHT MAN”!😂😂😂

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also Saturday was my friends birthday also may the fourth 3rd be with you also happy star wars day ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Watershed years right before Race and Vietnam started to tear the world apart...

All those british bands made it here in America because the US recording companies picked them up and put them on contract.

It was a great time to come of age on every level...creative, opportunity, possiblity....

I grew up during the good times, late 50's to early 70's. How lucky I was. Freedom had some real meaning, entertainers focused on entertainment, news media presented news, governments governed instead of manipulated, schools were friendly places, criminals were where they were supposed to be, in jail, I had a family who cared.

I was born in May 1965 !

What a great video. Thank you

One of the best music videos I've ever seen on here , so informative , such brilliant music Nick 70 England

Dang KEEFE, talk about your 'high waters', lol ! Actually after seeing your 'Big Hits' (Hide Tide / Green Grass)" album cover, I looked for those shoes for years ! Finally got a pair of capezios during the disco era.

Great! Thank you from Amsterdam.

thx. I enjoyed this.

The mid 60s was an explosion of creativity. Looking at the music charts for any week so many soon to be classic songs shared the list in such a variety of styles. The tunes easily recognizable without words. Could anyone say the same of recent music.