1963
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"On 14 March 1963 Frank Zappa appeared on the Steve Allen Show on Channel 5. He had ... also with his jazz recordings, but they weren't interested until he came up with a gimmick: he would play a bicycle, a musical form he called 'Cyclophony'." --Frank Zappa (2014) by Barry Miles |
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1963 (MCMLXIII) was the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.
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Art and culture
- Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned Jamaican recording facility Studio One
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Ted Nelson coins the term hypertext
- Richard Hoggart becomes the first director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- The results of the Milgram experiment are published
- Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz playing chess, a photo by Julian Wasser of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a Eve Babitz
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Literature
- The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
- Blues People by Amiri Baraka
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Visual arts
- Grotesk by Hannah Höch
- Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
- Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
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Music
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Singles
- "Cristo Redentor" by Donald Byrd
- "Mas que Nada" by Jorge Ben
- "Madness" by Prince Buster
- "Oye Como Va" by Tito Puente
- "Yeh Yeh" by Mongo Santamaría
- "Needles and Pins", a song made famous by The Searchers
- "Les Nuits d'une demoiselle" by Colette Renard
- "Queen for Tonight" by Helen Shapiro
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Albums
- The Lonely Surfer by Jack Nitzsche
- Night Lights by Gerry Mulligan
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Film
- The Silence by Ingmar Berman
- Blood Feast by Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard
- The Servant by Joseph Losey
- The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava
- X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes by Roger Corman
- La ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Haunting by Robert Wise
- Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith
- The Girl Hunters by Roy Rowland
- Towers Open Fire by Antony Balch
- The Sadist by James Landis
- The Nutty Professor by Jerry Lewis
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Births
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Deaths
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Édith Piaf (1915 - 1963)
- Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963)
- Jean Bruce (1921 - 1963)
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