Why was 1965 an important year for the Beatles?

Answer 1

There are several answers to this:

1. It was their second year of international fame, proving the critics wrong who said that they were a flash in the pan.
2. Their second movie, Help!, was released.
3. They were awarded MBEs by the British Government, for import revenues.
4. They stopped recording other people's songs, and began recording their own material exclusively.
5. They branched out from just "love songs", to other musical topics.
6. Their Shea Stadium concert was their largest live audience ever (with approximately 58,000 people attending), and the largest concert audience ever up to that time.
7. Their producer, George Martin, left EMI to form AIR (Associated Independent Recording), breaking some old precedents and setting some new ones, in the recording industry. He was able to do this with the help of the Beatles, who stipulated to EMI that Martin and only Martin would serve as their producer.
8. John Lennon and George Harrison were introduced by LSD (unknowingly) by a dentist friend, changing the course of their subsequent lives and careers.