1962 in British music: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 07:19, 15 June 2017

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 continued to be dominated by American acts, but a homegrown style of pop music had 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 formed during this year. Novelty records with a British flavour, such as Mike Sarne's "Come Outside", and Anthony Newley's "That Noise", continued 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, credited to "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers" (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 co-conducts with Benjamin Britten, the première of Britten’s War Requiem, now regarded as a landmark of British 20th-century choral music, at the re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral.^[5]^[6]
17 August – Telstar by The Tornados is released in the UK. It would eventually be the first song by a British group to reach the top spot on the Billboard Top 100, 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.
23 August – John Lennon secretly marries Cynthia Powell.

The Official UK Singles Chart

See UK No.1 Hits of 1962

Classical music: new works

Malcolm Arnold - Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra
Benjamin Britten -
- War Requiem
- A Hymn of St Columba
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards - Caneuon y Tri Aderyn
Alun Hoddinott - Folksong Suite
William Mathias - Postlude
Robert Simpson - Symphony No. 3
Michael Tippett - Piano Sonata No. 2

Opera

Michael Tippett – King Priam

Film and Incidental music

John Addison - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, starring Tom Courtenay.
Antony Hopkins - Billy Budd directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, co-starring Terence Stamp.
Monty Norman - Dr. No directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery.

Musical theatre

8 May - Blitz!, Lionel Bart's new musical, opens at London's Adelphi Theatre, and runsfor 568 performances.^[7]

Musical films

The Cool Mikado, starring Frankie Howerd and Lionel Blair
It's Trad, Dad!, starring Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas
Play It Cool, starring Billy Fury

Births

4 January - Robin Guthrie (The Cocteau Twins)
16 January – Paul Webb (Talk Talk)
31 January – Sophie Muller, British music video director
5 March - Craig Reid and Charlie Reid, The Proclaimers
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
3 November – Marilyn, pop vocalist
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 - Tolga Kashif, composer

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
date unknown - Anderson Tyrer, pianist

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.
^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ 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 (eds), Mervyn (2010). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958-1965. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-591-2. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help), p. 398
^ Ken Mandelbaum, CDs: Who's This Geezer Hitler? BLITZ!, 5 Aug 2005. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.

[1] Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4.

[Spitz-2] Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-80352-6.

[3] Smith, Alan. "50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth!". Dave McAleer's website. Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] Easton, Carol (2000). Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80976-1.

[5] 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.

[6] Reed, Philip; Cooke (eds), Mervyn (2010). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958-1965. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-591-2. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help), p. 398

[7] Ken Mandelbaum, CDs: Who's This Geezer Hitler? BLITZ!, 5 Aug 2005. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 *[[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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Alan|title=50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth!|url=http://www.davemcaleer.com/page21.htm|work=[[Dave McAleer]]'s website|accessdate=4 November 2010}}</ref>
+*March - ''Record Mirror'' stops compiling its own chart and begins publishing ''Record Retailer''{{'}}s instead.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith |first=Alan |title=50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth! |url=http://www.davemcaleer.com/page21.htm |work=[[Dave McAleer]]'s website |accessdate=4 November 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510032556/http://www.davemcaleer.com/page21.htm |archivedate=10 May 2011 |df= }}</ref>
 *[[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 (conductor)|Rudolf Schwarz]].<ref>Easton, Carol (2000). Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|0-306-80976-1}}.</ref>
 *[[7 April]] – [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]] meet [[Brian Jones]] at [[Ealing Jazz Club|The Ealing Club]], a blues club in London