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"Nineteen63" or "1963" is a track by British rock group New Order. It was released as a single in January 1995, but was originally released as a b-side to "True Faith" in 1987, and appeared on the Substance compilation of the same year. However, the version released as a single is the Arthur Baker radio mix of the re-recorded version from 1994, which is shorter, omitting at least one verse that appeared in the 1987 edition.

The song is - according to the band's lyricist, Bernard Sumner - about the JFK assassination, which occurred in 1963. Sumner theorises that then President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (a devout catholic for whom divorce was unthinkable) in fact paid the mobster Jack Ruby to arrange for a hitman to take out his wife, Jackie Kennedy (the song appears to be sung from her point of view). This was so he could continue his relationship with actress Marilyn Monroe, who committed suicide when she found out the hired gun, Lee Harvey Oswald, had hit the wrong target (although Sumner does not explain the fact Monroe died in 1962, over a year before the assassination took place). Oswald was, according to Sumner, then in turn assassinated by Ruby for causing his hitman business to go bust.

The producer Stephen Hague have referred to the song as "the only song about domestic violence you can dance to".

"Nineteen63" contained a variety of b-sides, all of which were remixes of the title track or songs previously released and was released on London Records.

Tracklisting

UK CD1 - NUOCD6

1. "1963 (95 Arthur Baker Radio remix)" (4:04)
2. "1963 (94 Album mix)" (3.47)
3. "1963 (Lionrock Full Throttle mix)" (7:50)
4. "1963 (Joe T. Vanelli Dubby mix)" (7:13)

UK CD2 - NUCDP6

1. "1963 (95 Arthur Baker remix)" (5:05)
2. "Let's Go" (3.56)
3. "Spooky (Night Stripper mix)" (7:03)
4. "True Faith (Shep Pettibone '87 mix)" (9:02)

UK 12\" - NUOX6

1. "1963 (Joe T. Vanelli Dubby mix)" (7:13)
2. "1963 (Joe T. Vanelli Light mix)" (8:59)
3. "1963 (Lionrock Full Throttle mix)" (7:50)
4. "1963 (Lionrock M6 Sunday Morning mix)" (6:25)

See also

Kennedy assassination theories

New Order
Bernard Sumner | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Phil Cunningham
Gillian Gilbert
Discography
Albums: Movement | Power, Corruption & Lies | Low-Life | Brotherhood | Technique | Republic | Get Ready | Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Compilation Albums: Substance | The Peel Sessions | BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert | The Best of New Order | The Rest of New Order | International | Retro | In Session | Singles
Extended plays: 1981-1982 New Order | Peel Sessions 1982 | Peel Sessions 1981 | The Peter Saville Show Soundtrack
Singles: "Ceremony" | "Procession" | "Everything's Gone Green" | "Temptation" | "Blue Monday" | "Confusion" | "Thieves Like Us" | "Murder" | "The Perfect Kiss" | "Sub-culture" | "Shellshock" | "State of the Nation" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" | "True Faith" | "Touched by the Hand of God" | "Blue Monday 1988" | "Fine Time" | "Round & Round" | "Run 2" | "World in Motion" | "Regret" | "Ruined in a Day" | World (The Price of Love)" | "Spooky" | "True Faith-94" | "1963" | "Blue Monday-95" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" (US re-release) | "Video 5 8 6" | "Crystal" | "60 Miles an Hour" | "Someone Like You" | "Here to Stay" | "Krafty" | "Jetstream" | "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" | "Guilt is a Useless Emotion"

 

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