- Jan 1 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- Jan 8 The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
- Jan 8 The Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
- Jan 8 The Who and The Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
"Can't Help Thinking About Me"
Jan 14 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"
- Jan 19 British composer Michael Tippett's cantata "Vision of St Augustine" premieres in London
"Sweet Charity"
Jan 29 Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields' musical "Sweet Charity", starring Gwen Verdon, and directed by Bob Fosse, opens at the Palace Theater, NYC for 608 performances, winning a Tony Award for choreogrphy
Shostakovich's 11th String Quartet
Jan 30 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet
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