Timeline May 1965

Events in May 1965 4

• 1965 – 1995 Grateful Dead American rock band San Francisco band led by Jerry Garcia — the great improvising live band, followed from show to show by the Deadheads.
• 1965 Grateful Dead play their first show as the Warlocks Menlo Park Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Pigpen and Bill Kreutzmann. Renamed Grateful Dead in December.
• 1965 Wilson Pickett records In the Midnight Hour Stax, Memphis Written with Steve Cropper — a soul standard.
• 1965 Howlin' Wolf on Shindig! with the Rolling Stones US television The Stones insist he appears on the show with them.