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Overview of the events of 1962 in British music
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This is a summary of 1962 in music in the
United Kingdom , including the official charts from that year.
Summary
Popular music in the UK continues to be dominated by American acts, but a homegrown style of pop music has begun to evolve, led by performers such as
Cliff Richard and
The Shadows .
The Hollies ,
The Swinging Blue Jeans ,
The Merseybeats ,
The Nashville Teens and
The Rolling Stones all form during this year.
The Beatles begin to be known outside Merseyside. Novelty records with a British flavour, such as
Mike Sarne 's "
Come Outside " and
Anthony Newley 's "That Noise", continue to be successful.
Events
1 January –
The Beatles and
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at
Decca Records , a company which has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, mainly because the Tremeloes are Dagenham-based, and thus nearer London.
5 January – The first
album on which
The Beatles play,
My Bonnie , as backing to
Tony Sheridan (recorded last June in
Hamburg ), is released by
Polydor .
[1]
[2]
24 January –
Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage
the Beatles .
21 February –
Margot Fonteyn and
Rudolf Nureyev dance together for the first time, in a
Royal Ballet performance of
Giselle .
March – Record Mirror stops compiling its own chart and begins publishing Record Retailer ' s instead.
[3]
21 March – 17-year-old
Jacqueline du Pré makes her concerto début at the
Royal Festival Hall , playing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra under
Rudolf Schwarz .
[4]
7 April –
Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards meet
Brian Jones at
The Ealing Club , a blues club in London
30 May –
Meredith Davies conducts with
Benjamin Britten the première of Britten's
War Requiem , now regarded as a landmark of British 20th-century music, following the re-consecration of
Coventry Cathedral .
[5]
[6] The principal orchestra is the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the soloists are
Peter Pears and
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with
Heather Harper , since the intended soprano,
Galina Vishnevskaya , has been refused permission at a late stage by the Soviet authorities to travel.
16 August – The Beatles fire
Pete Best and replace him as drummer with
Ringo Starr .
17 August – Instrumental "
Telstar " by
The Tornados is released in the UK. It will eventually be the first recording by a British group to reach the top spot on the
Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, proving a precursor of the British Invasion.
18 August –
The Beatles play their first live engagement with the line-up of
John ,
Paul ,
George and
Ringo , at
Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight .
[2]
23 August –
John Lennon marries
Cynthia Powell in an unpublicised
register office ceremony at
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool .
5 October – The Beatles' first
single in their own right, "
Love Me Do "/"
P.S. I Love You ", is released on EMI's
Parlophone label.
[7] This version was recorded on 4 September at
Abbey Road Studios in London with Ringo Starr as drummer.
17 October – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on
Granada television 's local news programme People and Places in the north of England, introduced by
Gay Byrne .
[8]
11 November –
Ken Russell 's film
Elgar is shown in
BBC Television 's
Monitor series.
The Official UK Singles Chart
Classical music: new works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
4 January –
Robin Guthrie (
The Cocteau Twins )
16 January –
Paul Webb (
Talk Talk )
31 January –
Sophie Muller , British music video director
2 March –
Jack Gibbons , pianist and composer
5 March – Craig Reid and Charlie Reid,
The Proclaimers
14 March –
Peter Copley , composer, cellist and pianist
15 March –
Terence Trent D'Arby , American-born singer
17 March –
Clare Grogan , actress and singer
14 May –
Ian Astbury , British rock singer (
The Cult )
8 June –
Nick Rhodes (
Duran Duran )
22 June –
Bobby Gillespie , vocalist (
Primal Scream )
27 June –
Michael Ball , actor and singer
2 August –
Lee Mavers singer, songwriter and guitarist (
The La's )
2 November –
Graham Waterhouse , composer and cellist
3 November –
Marilyn , pop vocalist
20 November –
Steve Alexander , drummer (
Brother Beyond )
24 November –
John Squire , guitarist, musician (
The Stone Roses ), (
The Seahorses )
6 December –
Ben Watt , DJ, and record producer, one half of
Everything but the Girl
12 December – John Jones, record producer
date unknown
Deaths
14 March –
Norman Coke-Jephcott , organist and composer, 67
10 April –
Stuart Sutcliffe , former member of
The Beatles , 21 (cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage)
30 April –
Edward Clark , conductor and radio producer, 73
12 June –
John Ireland , pianist and composer, 82
13 June – Sir
Eugene Aynsley Goossens , conductor, 69
24 August –
Henry Ley , organist, composer and music teacher, 74
18 November –
Clifford Bax , playwright, poet, lyricist and hymn writer, brother of
Arnold Bax , 76
16 December –
Lily Elsie , popular actress and singer, 76
date unknown –
Anderson Tyrer , pianist
See also
References
^ Everett, Walter (2001).
The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul . Oxford University Press. p.
100 .
ISBN
978-0-19-514105-4 .
^
a
b
Spitz, Bob (2005).
The Beatles: The Biography . New York: Little, Brown.
ISBN
978-0-316-80352-6 .
^ Smith, Alan.
"50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth!" .
Dave McAleer 's website . Archived from
the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010 .
^ Easton, Carol (2000). Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography . Cambridge: Da Capo Press.
ISBN
0-306-80976-1 .
^
Meredith Davies—Versatile conductor who in 1962 took charge of Britten's War Requiem at the historic consecration of Coventry Cathedral ,
The Times , 2 April 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
^ Reed, Philip; Cooke, Mervyn, eds. (2010). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965 . Boydell Press. p. 398.
ISBN
978-1-84383-591-2 .
^
New Musical Express 21 September 1962.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Ken Mandelbaum,
CDs: Who's This Geezer Hitler? BLITZ! , 5 Aug 2005. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.
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