1963  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

In 1963, Roger Corman directed The Raven, a horror-comedy written by Richard Matheson very loosely based on the poem, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. It stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers.

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1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970

Art and culture

• Clement Dodd opens the first black-owned Jamaican recording facility Studio One
• Assassination of Kennedy
• Ted Nelson coins the term hypertext
• Richard Hoggart becomes the first director of the CCCS
• The results of the Milgram experiment are published.

Literature

• The Feminine Mystique
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (novel)

Visual arts

• Grotesk by Hannah Höch
• Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein

Music

Singles

• "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah" by The Beatles
• "Cristo Redentor" by Donald Byrd
• "Mas Que Nada" by Jorge Ben
• "Madness (song)" by Prince Buster
• "Please Please Me" by The Beatles
• "Fingertips" by Stevie Wonder

Albums

• "Live at the Apollo" by James Brown

Film

• Tystnaden
• Blood Feast
• Contempt
• The Servant
• The Whip and the Body
• X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
• 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

Births

• David LaChapelle
• Simon Reynolds
• Gaspar Noé
• Tracey Emin
• Quentin Tarantino
• Jeff Mills
• Derrick May

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)