1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music

by Andrew Grant Jackson

  22. Roy Black, “Hits from an Ice Cream Parlour—Leslie Kong’s Beverly’s Plays Foundation Music Role,” Jamaica Gleaner, Feb. 9, 2014, http://collectorskornernow.com/leslie-kong/.

  23. Robert Nicholls, “Black & White & Blue (Beat),” The Mod Generation, www.themodgeneration.co.uk/2010/10/black-white-blue-beat.html.

  24. D. M. Collins, “Jimmy Cliff: Boom! Smash! It Went Smash!,” L.A. Record, April 9, 2012, http://larecord.com/interviews/2012/04/09/jimmy-cliff-boom-smash-it-went-smash.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Nick Warburton, “Jimmy Cliff & the New Generation,” Garage Hangover, April 20, 2012, http://www.garagehangover.com/jimmycliff/.

  27. Marley, directed by Kevin Macdonald (Shangri-La Entertainment, 2012), DVD.

  28. Caribbean Nights: The Bob Marley Story, directed by Charles Chabot and Jo Mendell (BBC, 1982), DVD.

  22. WARHOL MEETS THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO

    1. Stein and Plimpton, Edie, 229.

    2. Unterberger, White Light/White Heat, 82.

    3. Thompson, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, 3.

    4. Warhol and Hackett, Popism, 145–46.

    5. Stein and Plimpton, Edie, 229.

    6. Bockris, Warhol, 227–28.

    7. Stein and Plimpton, Edie, 285.

    8. Bockris, Warhol: The Biography, 236.

    9. Warhol and Hackett, Popism, 108.

  10. Lauren Gioia and Dan Abernethy, “Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction Totals $266,591,000,” sothebys.com, 2012, http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys/PDFs/Contemporary%20Post%20SalePR%20May12.pdf.

  11. Doggett, Lou Reed.

  12. Bockris, Uptight.

  13. Cale and Bockris, What’s Welsh for Zen.

  14. James Mills, “John and Karen, Two Lives Lost to Heroin,” Life, Feb. 26, 1965.

  15. Cale and Bockris, What’s Welsh for Zen.

  16. McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me, 17.

  23. ACID OZ

    1. Hofmann, LSD, My Problem Child.

    2. Marc Lewis, “My Kool Acid Test,” Newsweek, March 26, 2012.

    3. Troy Hooper, “Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD,” SF Weekly, March 14, 2012, http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-03-14/news/cia-lsd-wayne-ritchie-george-h-white-mk-ultra/3/.

    4. “LSD, Magic Mushrooms, and CIA Mind Control Experiments,” ABC News Closeup, 1979, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5g597t0ZE.

    5. Stevens, Storming Heaven.

    6. Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 79.

    7. Greenfield, Dark Star, 70–71.

    8. Ginsberg, Planet News: 1961–1967.

    9. Sandison and Vickers, Neal Cassady, 297.

  10. Ibid., 300.

  11. Doggett, Are You Ready for the Country.

  12. Draper, Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History, 50.

  13. Perry and Miles, I Want to Take You Higher, 36.

  14. Jann S. Wenner and Charles Reich, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Jerry Garcia, Part 1,” http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/Jerry_Garcia_Part1.aspx.

  15. Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, 199.

  16. Perry and Miles, I Want to Take You Higher, 25.

  17. Perry, The Haight-Ashbury.

  18. Whitsett, Erotic City, 70.

  19. Ken Kesey, “Allen…,” www.intrepidtrips.com/pranksters/ginsberg/.

  20. Charters, The Portable Sixties Reader, 208–12.

  21. Stevens, Storming Heaven.

  22. Doggett, There’s a Riot Going On.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Sloman, Steal This Dream, 59.

  25. Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 175.

  26. Ibid., 172.

  27. Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 121.

  28. Greenfield, Dark Star, 60–61.

  29. Dennis McNally and Lou Tambakos, booklet for Grateful Dead box set The Golden Road (1965–1973), Rhino Records, 2001.

  30. Troy, Captain Trips, 27.

  31. Wyman, Stone Alone, 359.

  32. Greenfield, Dark Star, 60–61.

  33. Ibid., 73–74.

  34. Ibid., 71.

  35. Perry and Miles, I Want to Take You Higher, 45.

  36. Miles, Hippie, 54.

  37. Perry and Miles, I Want to Take You Higher, 25.

  38. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 68.

  24. RUBBER SOUL

    1. Beatles, The Beatles Anthology, 158.

    2. Bellman, The Exotic in Western Music, 294.

    3. MacDonald, Revolution in the Head, 165.

    4. Badman, The Beatles, 190.

    5. Gill, Bob Dylan.

    6. Jonathan Cott, “John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Nov. 23, 1968, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-lennon-the-rolling-stone-interview-19681123.

    7. Miles, Paul McCartney, 270–71.

    8. Ibid.

    9. Mitchell Glazer, “Growing Up at 33 1/3: The George Harrison Interview,” Crawdaddy, 1977, http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1977.0200.beatles.html.

  10. Rosen, The Billboard Book of Number One Albums, 77.

  11. Spignesi and Lewis, 100 Best Beatles Songs, 108.

  12. Miles, Paul McCartney, 210.

  13. Sheff, All We Are Saying, 178–79.

  14. Spignesi and Lewis, 100 Best Beatles Songs, 246.

  15. Lennon, In His Own Write.

  16. Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love, 305.

  17. Unterberger, Turn! Turn! Turn!, 180.

  18. Maureen Cleave, “How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This,” London Evening Standard, March 4, 1966.

  19. Sheff, All We Are Saying, 193.

  20. Davies, The Beatles, 275.

  21. Doggett, There’s a Riot Going On.

  22. Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, 13.

  23. Miles, Paul McCartney, 272.

  24. Steve Marinucci, “Mysterious Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ Photo Gets Huge Buzz,” The Examiner, Jan. 22, 2013, http://www.examiner.com/article/mysterious-beatles-rubber-soul-photo-gets-huge-buzz.

  25. CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE

    1. Sally Kempton, “Super Anti-Hero in Forest Hills,” Village Voice, April 1, 1965.

    2. Ronald W. Dworkin, “Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness,” The New Atlantis, 2012, http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/psychotherapy-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness; Herman, The Romance of American Psychology.

    3. Fritz Redlich and Stephen R. Kellert, “Trends in American Mental Health,” The American Journal of Psychiatry (January 1978).

    4. What’s New Pussycat?, directed by Clive Donner (Famous Artists Productions, 1965), DVD.

    5. Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts, 300–302.

    6. Lee Mendelson, “Willie Mays and A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Charles M. Schulz Museum, Jean Schulz’s Blog, March 9, 2012, https://schulzmuseum.org/willie-mays-and-a-charlie-brown-christmas/.

    7. Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts, 347.

    8. Ibid., 350.

    9. A Christmas Miracle: The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas (Trailer Park, 2008), DVD bonus feature.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Zollo, Songwriters on Songwriting, 8.

  12. Rogan, The Byrds, 128.

  13. Ibid., 619.

  14. Badman, The Beach Boys, 104.

  15. Don Traynor, “Brian Pop Genius!” Melody Maker, May 21, 1966.

  16. Hartman, The Wrecking Crew, 151.

  17. George Leonard, Jr., & Another vs. School Committee of Attleboro & Others, masscases.com, http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/349/349mass704.html.

  18. Michael E. Young, “In ’66, Their Hair Triggered a To-Do: Stylish Marcus Proved an Ally in Band’s Battle to K
eep Long Locks,” Dallas Morning News, March 4, 2002.

  19. Turner, The Man Called Cash.

  20. Gilmore, Stories Done, 196.

  21. Hilburn, Johnny Cash; Streissguth, Johnny Cash, 129.

  22. Ribowsky, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, 30.

  23. Ibid., 63.

  24. Martin Freeman Goes to Motown, directed by Sara Tiefenbrun (BBC, 2009), DVD.

  25. Ribowsky, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, 55.

  26. Echols, Hot Stuff, 13.

  EPILOGUE: STRIKE ANOTHER MATCH, GO START ANEW

    1. Norman, Mick Jagger.

    2. Rogan, The Byrds, 158–63.

    3. Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., “History and Current Status of Divorce in the United States,” The Future of Children, 1994, http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=63&articleid=409; Associated Press, “Premarital Sex Trends,” New York Times, April 17, 1985, http://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/17/garden/premarital-sex-trends.html.

    4. “Selected Notifiable Disease Rates and Number of New Cases: United States, 1950–2011,” table, Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2012/039.pdf.

    5. Gottlieb, Do You Believe in Magic?, 147.

    6. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out against Socialized Medicine, 1961, LP.

    7. Longley, Deconstructing Reagan, 76.

    8. Hall, American Patriotism, American Protest, 134.

    9. Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, 95.

  10. Dallek, The Right Moment, 190.

  11. Lewis, “My Kool Acid Test.”

  12. Berkeley in the Sixties, directed by Mark Kitchell (P.O.V. Theatricals, 1990).

  13. “United States Military Casualties of War,” Wikipedia.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war.

  14. Gottlieb, Do You Believe in Magic?, 153.

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