1946 in British music
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This is a summary of 1946 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 ] 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 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 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 [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ 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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