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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 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 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 London30 May - Meredith Davies co-conducts with Benjamin Britten , the première of Britten’s War Requiem Coventry Cathedral .[5] [6] 17 August – Telstar 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 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 director5 March - Craig Reid and Charlie Reid, The Proclaimers 15 March – Terence Trent D'Arby , American-born singer17 March – Clare Grogan , actress and singer14 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 singer3 November – Marilyn , pop vocalist24 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 producerdate unknown - Tolga Kashif , composerDeaths 14 March - Norman Coke-Jephcott , organist and composer, 6710 April – Stuart Sutcliffe , former member of The Beatles , 21 (cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage)30 April - Edward Clark , conductor and radio producer, 7312 June – John Ireland , pianist and composer, 8213 June – Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens , conductor, 6924 August - Henry Ley , organist, composer and music teacher, 7418 November - Clifford Bax , playwright, poet, lyricist and hymn writer, brother of Arnold Bax , 76date unknown - Anderson Tyrer , pianistReferences
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^ Meredith Davies—Versatile conductor who in 1962 took charge of Britten's War Requiem at the historic consecration of Coventry Cathedral , The Times ^ 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 ^ Ken Mandelbaum, CDs: Who's This Geezer Hitler? BLITZ! , 5 Aug 2005. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.
