Sixty years on: was 1965 music’s best ever year?
Mon 21 Jul 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sixty years ago, the music world was on the crest of a creative wave unlike any experienced before or since. Bob Dylan forsook folk music to go electric while the Beatles made Rubber Soul, their most mature album yet. Motown put black music centre stage as never before while the likes of Dusty Springfield, the Who and a rampaging Rolling Stones added to a bewildering mix of emerging styles and sounds. Join former music journalist Stephen Barnard as – with the help of some historic audio and video clips – he explores the reasons why 1965 was music’s best year ever.
Event Information
Price: £15
Room: Kincaid Hall
Your Tutor
Name: Stephen Barnard
Bio: Stephen spent 21 years as a specialist writer with Reader’s Digest before going freelance in 1999. He has been writing and lecturing on broadcasting, film and popular music on a part-time basis for over 30 years. He has run courses for the WEA, De Montfort University, the City University and a number of Hertfordshire arts groups, and his five books include Studying Radio, the standard academic textbook on the subject.
Department: Humanities
