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The group released its first single, "Don't Start Crying Now"/"One Two Brown Eyes," in August 1964. The single was a flop. The band then hired Jimmy Page and Peter Bardens to work with them on a cover of Big Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go." The single, which featured the now-legendary "Gloria" as a B-side, was a smash in the UK, sailing to #10 on the charts in December 1964. The band then released its biggest hit in the UK, "Here Comes the Night"/"All for Myself," which hit #2 in March 1965See also 1964 in music, other events of 1965, 1966 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music' Events January 4 Fender Guitars is sold to CBS for $13 million. January 12 Hullabaloo premieres on NBC. The first show included performances by th (it went to #24 in the US that May).

The band released two albums on Decca, Them and Them Again, both of which failed to sell, and in mid-1966, Van Morrison left the group to pursue a solo career. The rest of the band split up and reformed several times without Morrison, but did not duplicate its previous successes. Van Morrison went on to greater success and fame as a solo artist, but Them's combination of garage rockGarage rock was a simple, raw form of rock and roll created by a number of American bands in the mid- 1960s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, these mostly midwestern American groups played a variation, bluesBlues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. Blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music,, and soulSoul music is fundamentally rhythm and blues, which grew out of the African-American gospel and blues traditions during the late 1950s and early 1960s in the United States. Over time, much of the broad range of R&B extensions in African-American popular m proved a major influence on the next generation of rock musicians, and the group's best-known singles have become staples of rock and rollRock and roll also called rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony backing), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural phenomenon,.

Them was also the name of the experimental hip hopHip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban , African American & Puerto Rican youth in New York and has since spread around the world. The four main elements of hip-hop are MCing, DJing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. Some consider beatboxing group Themselves before they changed their name to avoid confusion with the 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around Them.