See also:
1965 in music,
other events of 1966,
1967 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music'
Hot_100_No._1_Hits_of_1966
Events
- January 3 - Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
- January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who
- January 14 - Young singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees
- January 17 - Simon and Garfunkel release Sounds of Silence, which hits #21 on Billboard charts
- January 21 - Beatle George Harrison marries fashion model Patti Boyd. The couple met on the set of the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night.
- February 19 - Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore
- March 3 - Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay form Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles, California.
- March 4 - The Beatles' John Lennon is quoted in the London newspaper, The Evening Standard as saying that the band was now more popular than Jesus. Beatles protests and record burnings follow in the Southern US's "Bible Belt".
- March 6 - In the UK, 5,000 fans of the Beatles sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson to reopen Liverpool's legendary Cavern Club.
- April 12 - In Los Angeles, California, Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean, crashes his Corvette into a truck that is parked on Whittier Boulevard. Berry suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage.
- May 1 - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Who perform at the New Musical Express' poll winners' show in London. The show is televised, except for The Beatles' and The Stones' segments, thanks to union conflicts.
- June 6 – At Gallatin, Tennessee, 25-year-old Claudette Frady-Orbison, while motorcycycle riding with her husband Roy Orbison, was killed when her motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck.
- July 2 - The Beatles become the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo. The performance ignited a lot of protest from local citizens who felt that it was inappropriate for a rock and roll band to play at Budokan.
- July 29 - Bob Dylan is involved in a motorcycle accident
- August 11 - John Lennon holds a press conference in Chicago, Illinois to apologize for his remarks the previous March. "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I was not knocking it. I was not saying we are greater or better."
- August 29 - The Beatles perform their last official concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California
- September - George Harrison travels to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with Ravi Shankar
- September 12 - First episode of The Monkees is broadcast on NBC Television
- October 10 - Simon and Garfunkel release Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, which hits #4 on Billboard charts
Albums released
Top hits on record
Other Singles
Published popular music
Births
- January 4 - Deanna Carter
- January 5 - Kate Schellenbach, Luscious Jackson
- January 8 - Andrew Wood, Mother Love Bone
- January 12 - Rob Zombie, White Zombie
- January 16 - Maxine Jones, En Vogue
- January 20 - Wes King, guitarist, singer
- February 2 - Robert DeLeo, Stone Temple Pilots
- February 6 - Rick Astley
- February 9 - Rachel Bolan, Skid Row
- March 3 - Tone-Loc
- March 10 - Edie Brickell
- March 12 - David Daniels, countertenor
- March 18 - Jerry Cantrell, Alice In Chains
- March 23 - Marti Pellow, Wet Wet Wet
- April 13 - Marc Ford, The Black Crowes
- May 13 - Darius Rucker, Hootie & The Blowfish
- May 16 - Janet Jackson
- May 26 - Tommy Stewart, Godsmack
- June 4 - Cecilia Bartoli
- July 15 - Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page
- July 20 - Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam
- August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, composer
- September 5 - Terry Ellis, En Vogue
- September 10 - Robin Goodridge, Bush
- September 20 - Nuno Bettancourt, Extreme
- October 18 - Tim Cross, Sponge
- October 19 - Sinitta, US singer
- October 31 - King Ad-Rock, The Beastie Boys
- November 17 - Jeff Buckley
- November 23 - Charlie Grover, Sponge
- November 24 - Joseph Run Simmons, Run D.M.C.
- November 25 - Stacy Lattisaw
- December 8 - Sinéad O'Connor
- December 20 - Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes
- December 29 - Dexter Holland of The Offspring
Deaths
Awards
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