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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 .
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
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)
Deaths
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
References
^ 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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