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This is a summary of 1946 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
- Gaiety George, released July 22, starring Richard Greene and Ann Todd.
- I'll Turn to You, directed by Geoffrey Faithfull, starring Terry Randall and Don Stannard
- The Laughing Lady, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth
- London Town, released September 30, starring Sid Fields, Greta Gynt, Petula Clark, Kay Kendall and Sonny Hale and featuring Tessie O'Shea and Beryl Davis.
- The Magic Bow, directed by Bernard Knowles, starring Stewart Granger and Phyllis Calvert
Births
- 3 January – John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
- 6 January – Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) (died 2006)
- 10 January – Aynsley Dunbar, drummer and songwriter
- 22 January – Malcolm McLaren, impresario and founder of the Sex Pistols (died 2010)
- 7 March – Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum)
- 21 March – Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry)
- 1 April – Ronnie Lane, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Faces) (died 1997)
- 2 April – Raymond Gubbay, classical music promoter[5]
- 4 April – Dave Hill, guitarist (Slade)
- 11 April – Bob Harris, DJ
- 10 May
- 15 May – Aly Bain, Scottish fiddler (The Boys of the Lough)
- 16 May – Robert Fripp, guitarist, composer and record producer
- 18 May – Bruce Gilbert, guitarist (Wire and Dome)
- 15 June - Noddy Holder, singer and songwriter (Slade)
- 30 June - Giles Swayne, composer
- 19 July – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer and bass player (Average White Band and Forever More)
- 23 July – Andy Mackay, saxophonist, oboist, and composer
- 10 August – Peter Karrie, star of West End musical productions
- 1 September – Barry Gibb, singer and songwriter
- 5 September – Freddie Mercury, singer (Queen) (died 1991)
- 23 September – Duster Bennett, blues singer and musician (died 1976)[6]
- 28 September – Helen Shapiro, singer
- 14 October
- 29 October – Peter Green, guitarist and singer
- 8 November – Roy Wood, singer and songwriter (The Move, Wizzard)
- 11 November – Chip Hawkes, vocalist and guitarist (The Tremeloes)
- 24 November – Bev Bevan, drummer (Electric Light Orchestra, Black Sabbath)
- 1 December – Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
- 10 December – Ace Kefford, bass player
- 12 December – Clive Bunker, drummer (Jethro Tull, Electric Sun, Solstice, and Aviator)
- 14 December – Jane Birkin, French-based actress and singer (died 2023)
- 16 December – Trevor Pinnock, harpsichordist and conductor
- 29 December – Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress
Deaths
- 29 January – Sidney Jones, conductor and composer, 84[7]
- 20 February – Hugh Allen, organist and choral conductor, 76[8]
- 13 March – Thomas Dunhill, composer and music writer, 69[9]
- 13 April – W. H. Bell, composer and conductor, 72[10]
- 1 May
- 16 October – Sir Granville Bantock, composer, 78[13]
- 10 November – Nicholas Gatty, composer and music critic, 72
- 5 December – Tom Clare, music hall singer and pianist, 70
- 15 December – Frederic Norton, composer, 77
See also
References
- ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-22282-X. p. 137
- ^ Whitcomb, Ian (2012). Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Books. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4584-1654-4.
- ^ Cole, Suzanne (2013). "Things that really interest ME: Tippett and Early Music". In Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas. The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–67. ISBN 978-1-107-60613-5. p. 59
- ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-22282-X. p. 207
- ^ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 37, 2 April 2014
- ^ Mojo4music.com Archived 2013-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Alan Hyman (1 January 1978). Sullivan and his satellites: a survey of English operettas 1860-1914. Chappell. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-903443-24-1.
- ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
- ^ Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
- ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
- ^ Melvin P. Unger (17 June 2010). Historical Dictionary of Choral Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8108-7392-6.
- ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1329. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- ^ Jürgen Schaarwächter (27 February 2015). Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945. A preliminary survey. With a foreword by Lewis Foreman. Volume 1. Georg Olms Verlag. p. 510. ISBN 978-3-487-15227-1.
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