{{Short description|1987 song by New Order}} {{about|the New Order song|the Rachael Yamagata song|Happenstance (Rachael Yamagata album){{!}}''Happenstance'' (Rachael Yamagata album)}} {{Infobox song | name = 1963 | cover = | alt = | type = song | artist = New Order | album = | A-side = True Faith | released = 20 July 1987 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | length = 5:32 | label = Factory | writer = * Bernard Sumner * Peter Hook * Stephen Morris * Gillian Gilbert * Stephen Hague<ref>[https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceClient/#ace/work/440170898 Ascap entry] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106011414/https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceClient/#ace/work/440170898 |date=January 6, 2014 }}</ref> | producer = {{hlist|Stephen Hague|New Order}} | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Infobox song | name = 1963 | cover = Nineteen63 (New Order album - cover art).jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = New Order | album = The Best of New Order | released = {{start date|1995|1|9|df=y}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=13|date=7 January 1995}}</ref> | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = | length = 5:05 | label = London | writer = * Bernard Sumner * Peter Hook * Stephen Morris * Gillian Gilbert * Stephen Hague | producer = * Stephen Hague * New Order | prev_title = True Faith-94 | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Blue Monday-95 | next_year = 1995 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|SofZHE0jBRI|"1963"}}}} }} "'''1963'''" (sometimes stylized as "'''Nineteen63'''") is a track by English rock group New Order. It was originally released as a B-side to "True Faith" in 1987 and appeared on the ''Substance'' compilation of the same year. It was then released as a single in January 1995, in a radio mix by Arthur Baker.
"1963"'s B-sides are all remixes of the title track or songs previously released.
==Lyrics== In ''New Order Music 1981–89'', the band's lyricist Bernard Sumner writes a tongue-in-cheek account of the song's lyrics that relate it to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. Sumner facetiously theorises that Kennedy arranged for Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot his wife so that "J.F. could do one with M. Monroe". Monroe commits suicide when Oswald hits the wrong target (in reality, Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, over a year before the assassination took place) and Oswald is later shot by his boss (implied to be Jack Ruby), for "doing such a bad job and causing his hit-man business to go bust."<ref>{{cite book |title=New Order Music 1981-89 |year=1990 |publisher=Warner Chappell Music |location=London |isbn=978-0-86359-768-8 }}</ref>
The producer Stephen Hague has referred to the song as "the only song about domestic violence that you can dance to."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar05/articles/classictracks.htm |title=Classic Tracks: New Order 'New Faith' |work=Sound on Sound |last=Buskin |first=Richard |date=March 2005 |access-date=3 February 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140402231301/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar05/articles/classictracks.htm |archive-date = 2014-04-02| url-status=live}}</ref>
==Versions== The original 1987 version ended in a fade-out while repeating the last line of the outro, "I will always feel free". The "94 album mix", also included on the international edition of ''(The Best of) New Order'' as "1963-94", had all new orchestration and is similar in structure to the original version, except that the outro is removed and replaced with a repeat of the final bridge and chorus, faded out. The 1995 Arthur Baker remix restores the original outro, and, instead of fading out, has a cold ending after four repeats of the last line.
An alternate mix of "1963-94" appeared on the 2005 ''Singles'' compilation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/543435-New-Order-Singles|title=New Order – Singles (2005, CD)|access-date=20 December 2021|website=Discogs.com|date=3 October 2005 }}</ref> while the 2016 re-release of ''Singles'' features the Arthur Baker remix.
==Music video== The video for the single's release, featuring the "95 Arthur Baker Radio remix", was directed by Gina Birch and produced by Michael H. Shamberg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galeriearnaudlefebvre.com/bio.php?bio=75|title=Michael H Shamberg Filmography|publisher=Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre|access-date=2011-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710043548/http://www.galeriearnaudlefebvre.com/bio.php?bio=75|archive-date=2013-07-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> It depicts British comic actress Jane Horrocks waking up in a box in the countryside and walking to the city. Jane's suitcase becomes bigger in each camera take, eventually growing to the size of the box she initially emerged from before she climbs inside.
==Track listings== {{Track listing | all_writing = Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Hague, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner; except where indicated | headline = CD #1: NUOCD6 (UK & Europe)
| title1 = 1963 | note1 = 95 Arthur Baker radio remix) (remixed by Arthur Baker | length1 = 4:04 | title2 = 1963 | note2 = 94 album version | length2 = 3:47 | title3 = 1963 | note3 = Lionrock Full Throttle mix) (remixed by Justin Robertson | length3 = 7:50 | title4 = 1963 | note4 = Joe T. Vanelli dubby mix) (remixed by Joe T. Vanelli | length4 = 7:13 }} {{Track listing | headline = CD #2: NUCDP6 (UK & Europe) – limited edition
| title1 = 1963 | note1 = 95 Arthur Baker remix | length1 = 5:05 | title2 = Let's Go | note2 = a new 'vocal' version of "Let's Go" produced in 1994 by Bernard Sumner and Arthur Baker | writer2 = Gilbert, Hook, Morris, Sumner | length2 = 3:56 | title3 = Spooky | note3 = Nightstripper mix) (remixed by Tony Garcia and Peter Daou | length3 = 7:03 | title4 = True Faith | note4 = 87 Shep Pettibone remix) (remixed by Shep Pettibone | length4 = 9:02 }} {{Track listing | headline = 7": NUO 6 / cassette: NUOMC 6 (UK & Europe)
| title1 = 1963 | note1 = 95 Arthur Baker radio remix | length1 = 4:04 | title2 = 1963 | note2 = 94 album version | length2 = 3:47 }} {{Track listing | headline = 12": NUOX6 (UK & Europe)
| title1 = 1963 | note1 = Joe T. Vanelli dubby mix | length1 = 7:13 | title2 = 1963 | note2 = Joe T. Vanelli light mix | length2 = 8:59 | title3 = 1963 | note3 = Lionrock Full Throttle mix | length3 = 7:50 | title4 = 1963 | note4 = Lionrock M6 Sunday Morning mix | length4 = 6:25 }}
==Charts== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (1995) !Peak<br/>position |- {{single chart|Ireland2|29|song=1963|rowheader=true|access-date=22 May 2021}} |- {{single chart|UK|21|date=19950122|rowheader=true|access-date=15 June 2024}} |- {{single chart|UKdance|20|date=19950122|rowheader=true|access-date=15 June 2024}} |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==See also== * John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories
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