15 March –
Jussi Björling suffers a heart attack before a performance at the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He goes on to perform, but dies six months later in Sweden.
April –
Jack Good's new TV show, Wham!, is broadcast for the first time.
12 April – Sir
Thomas Beecham returns to the UK from his last overseas conducting tour; he dies the following year.
^McKay, George (2005). "New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu)". Circular Breathing: the Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN0-8223-3560-3.
^"The day when traditional jazz caused a riot". The Observer. London. 29 July 2012. p. 6 (The New Review).
^Hill, Tim (2007). Then There Was Music: The Beatles. London: Daily Mail. p. 13.
ISBN978-0-9545267-7-1.
^Reed, Philip (2010). Cooke, Mervyn (ed.). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. p. 247.
ISBN978-1-84383-591-2.
^Obituary: "Adam Faith", The Guardian (London), 10 March 2003.
15 March –
Jussi Björling suffers a heart attack before a performance at the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He goes on to perform, but dies six months later in Sweden.
April –
Jack Good's new TV show, Wham!, is broadcast for the first time.
12 April – Sir
Thomas Beecham returns to the UK from his last overseas conducting tour; he dies the following year.
^McKay, George (2005). "New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu)". Circular Breathing: the Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN0-8223-3560-3.
^"The day when traditional jazz caused a riot". The Observer. London. 29 July 2012. p. 6 (The New Review).
^Hill, Tim (2007). Then There Was Music: The Beatles. London: Daily Mail. p. 13.
ISBN978-0-9545267-7-1.
^Reed, Philip (2010). Cooke, Mervyn (ed.). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. p. 247.
ISBN978-1-84383-591-2.
^Obituary: "Adam Faith", The Guardian (London), 10 March 2003.