1964 in music

• Rock band The Moody Blues formed
• The Byrds rock band formed
• Sonny & Cher duet formed
• The Who rock band formed
• The Troggs formed
• MC5 formed
• The Mothers of Invention formed
• Lynyrd Skynyrd formed
• The Beatles release their first film, A Hard Day's Night .

See also the 1964 music album category .

• Shut Down Volume 2 ( The Beach Boys )
• All Summer Long ( The Beach Boys )
• The Beach Boys' Christmas Album ( The Beach Boys )
• A Hard Day's Night ( The Beatles , July 10 )
• Beatles For Sale ( The Beatles , December 4 )
• Hello Broadway ( Marvin Gay )
• When I'm Alone I Cry ( Marvin Gay )
• Five Live Yardbirds ( The Yardbirds ) - debut album

• “A Change Is Gonna Come” ( Sam Cook )
• “ You've Lost That Lovin 'Feelin' ” ( The Righteous Brothers )
• Dancin 'in the Streets ( Martha and the Vandellas )
• “ The Times They Are A-Changin ' ” ( Bob Dylan )
• Walk On By ( Dionne Warwick )
• “You Really Got Me” ( The Kinks )
• House of the Rising Sun ( The Animals )

• UK 's best-selling single is Can't Buy Me Love ( The Beatles )
• UK's best-selling album - “The Beatles For Sale ” (The Beatles)
• The best-selling record in the USSR - Lev Barashkov "At an unnamed height"
• US Top Selling Single ( Billboard Hot 100 ) - “ I Want to Hold Your Hand ” ( The Beatles )
• The best-selling album in the USA ( Billboard 200 ) is the soundtrack to J. Herman 's musical “ Hello, Dolly! "( Louis Armstrong , Barbra Streisand and others)

• Grammys for Album of the Year - Stan Getz and Juan Gilbert for Getz / Gilberto
• Grammys for the record of the year - Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto for “The Girl from Ipanema ”
• Grammys for the song of the year - Hello, Dolly! "(Performer - Louis Armstrong )

January

• January 10 - Brad Roberts , Crash Test Dummies
• January 31 - Jeff Hanneman , Slayer

February

• February 4 - The Noodles , The Offspring
• February 29 - Zoya Yashchenko , White Guard

March

• March 5 - Alexander Laerstky
• March 11 - Vinnie Paul , Pantera
• March 30 - Tracy Chapman

April

• April 17 - Maynard James , Tool

May

• May 30 - Vadim Kurylyov , DDT

July

• July 27 - Yuri Klinsky (Khoy) , Gaza Strip
• July 31 - CCCatch , German pop and disco singer.

September

• September 3 - Alexander Aksyonov (Ricochet) , Object of ridicule
• September 10 - Egor Letov , Civil Defense
• September 18 - Alexey Vishnya , singer, musician, sound engineer and producer

October

• October 3 - Vadim Samoilov , Agatha Christie
• October 20 - Frederick Chiu , American pianist of Chinese descent
• October 23 - Robert Trujillo , Metallica

December

• December 9 - Paul Landers , Rammstein

• September 1 - George Giorgescu , Romanian conductor, cellist and teacher (born 1887).
• September 8 - Akhmat Amanbaev , Kyrgyz composer, conductor and teacher (born 1920).