1959 in British music

none 1959 1959 British music This is a summary of 1959 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. Events January – Ealing Jazz Club opens in London. 21 April – Ballerina Margot Fonteyn is jailed for 24 hours in Panama on suspicion of involvement in planning a coup against the government of president Ernesto de la Guardia.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/22/newsid_2938000/2938889.stm "1959: Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail", BBC On This Day 2009-07-02 1959-04-22 BBC News 1 June – The first edition of Juke Box Jury, presented by David Jacobs, is broadcast on BBC television. The first panel consists of Pete Murray, Alma Cogan, Gary Miller and Susan Stranks. 10 June – On the opening day of a 'Pageant of Magna Carta', Benjamin Britten's Fanfare for St Edmundsbury is given its first performance in the precincts of St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds. Reed Philip Mervyn Cooke 2010 Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965 Boydell Press 978-1-84383-591-2, p. 85 30 October – Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in the Soho district of London. Bert Weedon becomes the first British guitarist in the UK Singles Chart with his solo "Guitar Boogie Shuffle".David Roberts 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums 19th Guinness World Records London 1-904994-10-5 595 Charts The Official UK Singles Chart See List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1950s Classical music: new works William Alwyn – Symphony No. 4Adrian Wright The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg8WAxFjyrAC 2008 Boydell & Brewer Ltd 978-1-84383-412-0 Malcolm Arnold – Sweeney Todd (ballet)Bland A. The Royal Ballet – the first 50 years. Threshold Books, London, 1981. Arthur Bliss – Birthday Song for a Royal Child (composed to celebrate the birth of Prince Andrewhttp://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/130/82 Arthur Bliss – Birthday Song for a Royal Child (1959) Music Sales Classical 21 August 2017 Benjamin Britten – Missa Brevis Iain Hamilton – Sinfonia, for two orchestrasPhilip Rupprecht Philip Ernst Rupprecht British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries https://books.google.com/books?id=DBu_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 9 July 2015 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84448-2 86 Francis Jackson – Diversion for Mixtures Elizabeth Maconchy – "A Hymn to God the Father", for tenor and piano Thea Musgrave – Scottish Dance Suite, for orchestra Grace Williams – All Seasons Shall Be Sweet Film and incidental music William Alwyn – Killers of Kilimanjaro, starring Anthony Newley Richard Rodney Bennett – The Man Who Could Cheat Death directed by Terence Fisher, starring Anton Diffring. James Bernard – The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing. Stanley Black – Violent Moment, starring Lyndon Brook Laurie Johnson No Trees in the Street, starring Sylvia Syms Tiger Bay, starring John Mills and Hayley Mills Musical theatre Wolf Mankowitz, David Heneker and Monty Norman – Make Me an OfferThe Guide to Musical Theatre. Accessed 20 June 2014 Sandy Wilson – Pieces of Eight Musical films Expresso Bongo, starring Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard Follow a Star, starring Norman Wisdom and June Laverick The Lady Is a Square, starring Anna Neagle and Frankie Vaughan Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele Births 14 January – Chas Smash (Madness) 15 January – Pete Trewavas, bass player and songwriterMarillion Official Website http://www.marillion.com/band/trewavas.htm 14 May 2012 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)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/dead-or-alive-frontman-pete-burns-dies-aged-57 Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive, dies aged 57 Hannah Ellis-Petersen 24 October 2016 Guardian News and Media Ltd The Guardian 24 October 2016 6 August – Donna Lewis, singer 29 August – Eddi Reader, singer 24 September – Drummie Zeb, singer (Aswad) (d. 2022) 4 October – Chris Lowe, keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys) 10 October Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter (d. 2000) Steve Martland, composer, curator Factory Classical (d. 2013) 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 Paul Coletti, Scottish viola soloist and chamber musician John Palmer, composer, pianist and musicologist. Andi Spicer, electroacoustic composer (d.2020) 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 1959 in British television 1959 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1959 References Category:British music by year