1942 in British music
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Overview of the events of 1942 in British music
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This is a summary of 1942 in music in the United Kingdom .
Popular music [ edit ] Classical music: new works [ edit ] Film and Incidental music [ edit ] Musical theatre [ edit ] Musical films [ edit ] 2 February – Graham Nash , English-born rock singer-songwriter and photographer 12 February – Lionel Grigson , English pianist, composer and educator (died 1994 ) 15 February – Glyn Johns , recording engineer 19 February – Phil Coulter , musician and music producer 24 February – Tim Staffell , singer and guitarist 28 February – Brian Jones , rock musician (The Rolling Stones ) (died 1969 )[8] 9 March – John Cale , composer and musician[9] 13 March – Meic Stevens , singer-songwriter 24 March – Arthur Brown , singer (Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown ) 19 April – David Fanshawe , composer (died 2010 ) 12 May – Ian Dury , singer-songwriter (died 2000 )[10] 18 June – Paul McCartney , singer, songwriter & composer[11] 17 July – Spencer Davis , musician 13 August – Sheila Armstrong , soprano 21 September – Jill Gomez , soprano[12] 27 September – Alvin Stardust (born Bernard Jewry, also called Shane Fenton), pop singer (died 2014 ) 31 December – Andy Summers , rock musician (Police) 14 January – Harry Champion , music hall composer, 76[13] 10 February – Felix Powell , musician, 63[14] 17 May – Alfred Hollins , organist and composer, 76 12 June – Walter Leigh , composer, 36 (killed in action)[15] 16 June – Haldane Stewart , organist, composer and choirmaster, 74 17 June – Jessie Bond , singer and actress in Gilbert & Sullivan, 89 30 July – Dorothy Silk , soprano, 59 15 October – Dame Marie Tempest , opera and musical comedy singer, 78[16] 23 November – Peadar Kearney , Irish Republican and songwriter, writer of the lyrics to The Soldier's Song , 58[17] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2 1939–45 . London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-160581 . pp. 1017, 1019 ^ Mitchell (1991): p. 630 ^ MacKenzie, Colin (2005). Mantovani: A Lifetime in Music . Melrose Press. p. 87. ISBN 9781905226191 . ^ Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion . The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii ^ "About this recording" . Naxos . Retrieved 23 January 2019 . ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | The ROSE OF TRALEE (1942)" . BFI: Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2014 . ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | WE'LL SMILE AGAIN (1942)" . BFI: Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2014 . ^ Jackson, Laura (1992). Golden Stone: The Untold Life and Tragic Death of Brian Jones . Smith Gryphon Limited. p. 3 . ISBN 0-312-09820-0 . ^ Mitchell, Tim Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale , 2003, p. 24 ^ Balls, Richard (2000). Sex & Drugs & Rock'N'Roll: The Life of Ian Dury (1st ed.). London: Omnibus Press. pp. 14–16. ISBN 0-7119-8644-4 . ^ Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography . Little, Brown and Company. p. 75 . ISBN 978-0-316-80352-6 . ^ Blyth, A. Jill Gomez. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. ^ Obituary, The Times , 15 January 1942, p. 46 ^ Richard Anthony Baker (31 May 2014). British Music Hall: An Illustrated History . Pen and Sword. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-4738-3718-8 . ^ CWGC entry ^ Deaths: The Times , 23 October 1942, p. 7, col. B ^ de Burca, Séamus (1957). The Soldier's Song: The Story of Peadar Ó Cearnaigh . Dublin: P. J. Bourke. OCLC 559798527 .
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