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Overview of the events of 1959 in British music
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This is a summary of 1959 in music in the
United Kingdom , including the official charts from that year.
Events
Charts
The Official UK Singles Chart
Classical music: new works
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
14 January –
Chas Smash (
Madness )
15 January –
Pete Trewavas , bass player and songwriter
[9]
28 January –
Dave Sharp (
The Alarm )
3 February –
Lol Tolhurst , drummer (
The Cure ,
Presence ,
Easy Cure , and
Levinhurst )
25 February –
Mike Peters , singer/songwriter (
The Alarm )
17 March –
Mike Lindup , singer/keyboard player (
Level 42 )
10 April –
Brian Setzer , singer/guitarist (
The Stray Cats )
21 April –
Robert Smith , singer (
The Cure )
27 April –
Sheena Easton , singer
5 May –
Ian McCulloch , singer (
Echo & the Bunnymen )
22 May –
Morrissey , singer (
The Smiths , solo)
28 May –
Steve Strange , singer (died 2015)
29 May -
Mel Gaynor , drummer (
Simple Minds )
5 June –
Robert Lloyd , English singer
19 June - Dennis Fuller, Jamaican-born singer (
London Boys ) (d. 1996)
24 June –
Andy McCluskey (
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark )
28 June –
Clint Boon , singer and keyboard player (
Inspiral Carpets and
The Clint Boon Experience )
30 June –
Brendan Perry , singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (
Dead Can Dance and
The Scavengers )
1 July - Edem Ephraim, singer (
London Boys ) (d. 1996)
9 July –
Jim Kerr , singer (
Simple Minds )
16 July –
James MacMillan , composer
18 July –
Jonathan Dove , composer
5 August –
Pete Burns , singer (
Dead or Alive ) (d.
2016 )
[10]
29 August –
Eddi Reader , singer
24 September –
Drummie Zeb , singer (
Aswad ) (d. 2022)
4 October –
Chris Lowe , keyboard player (
Pet Shop Boys )
10 October
7 November –
Richard Barrett , composer
27 November –
Charlie Burchill , guitarist (
Simple Minds )
1 December –
Billy Childish , artist and musician
30 December –
Tracey Ullman , actress and singer
date unknown
Deaths
11 March –
Haydn Wood , violinist and composer (born 1882)
25 March –
Billy Mayerl , pianist and composer (born 1902)
9 June –
Sonnie Hale , actor and singer (born 1902)
6 September –
Kay Kendall , musical comedy actress (born 1926) (leukaemia)
11 September –
Ann Drummond-Grant , operatic contralto (born 1905)
21 September –
Agnes Nicholls , operatic soprano (born 1877)
28 September –
Gerard Hoffnung , German-born artist, musician and humorist (born 1925) (cerebral haemorrhage)
19 October –
Stanley Bate , pianist and composer (born 1911) (suicide)
26 November –
Albert Ketèlbey , pianist, conductor and composer (born 1875)
29 December –
Robin Milford , composer (born 1903)
30 December –
G. W. Briggs , hymn-writer (born 1875)
See also
References
^
" "1959: Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail", BBC On This Day" . BBC News . 1959-04-22. Retrieved 2009-07-02 .
^ Reed, Philip; Cooke, Mervyn (2010). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965 . Boydell Press.
ISBN
978-1-84383-591-2 . , p. 85
^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records. p. 595.
ISBN
1-904994-10-5 .
^ Adrian Wright (2008).
The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn . Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
ISBN
978-1-84383-412-0 .
^ Bland A. The Royal Ballet – the first 50 years. Threshold Books, London, 1981.
^
"Arthur Bliss – Birthday Song for a Royal Child (1959)" . Music Sales Classical . Retrieved 21 August 2017 .
^ Philip Rupprecht; Philip Ernst Rupprecht (9 July 2015).
British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries . Cambridge University Press. p. 86.
ISBN
978-0-521-84448-2 .
^
The Guide to Musical Theatre . Accessed 20 June 2014
^
"Marillion Official Website" . Retrieved 14 May 2012 .
^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (24 October 2016).
"Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive, dies aged 57" . The Guardian . Guardian News and Media Ltd. Retrieved 24 October 2016 .
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