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Overview of the events of 1955 in British music
List of years in British music
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This is a summary of 1955 in music of all genres in the
United Kingdom .
Events
Charts
Classical music: new works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
3 January –
Helen O'Hara , vocalist
4 January –
Mark Hollis , singer-songwriter
19 January
25 January –
Terry Chimes , drummer (
The Clash )
23 February –
Howard Jones , singer-songwriter
[11]
27 February –
Peter Christopherson , musician, songwriter, and director (died
2010 )
[12]
19 March –
Paul Edwards , composer of choral music
5 April –
Janice Long , radio disc jockey (died
2021 )
9 April –
Bob Chilcott , choral composer, conductor, and singer
10 April –
Lesley Garrett , operatic soprano
17 April –
Pete Shelley , guitarist and vocalist (
Buzzcocks )
16 May –
Hazel O'Connor , singer
22 May –
Jerry Dammers , ska musician and songwriter
30 May –
Topper Headon (
The Clash )
26 June –
Mick Jones , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (
The Clash ,
Big Audio Dynamite ,
General Public ,
Carbon/Silicon , and
London SS )
18 July –
Terry Chambers , English drummer (
XTC and
Dragon )
20 July –
Jem Finer , English banjo player and songwriter (
The Pogues )
30 July –
Christopher Warren-Green , violinist and conductor
30 August –
Andy Pask , English bass player and composer
1 September –
Bruce Foxton , guitarist (
The Jam )
3 September –
Steve Jones , guitarist (
Sex Pistols )
14 September –
William Jackson , harpist and composer
30 September –
Frankie Kennedy , folk musician (died
1994 )
2 October –
Philip Oakey , singer-songwriter
12 November –
Les McKeown , singer (
Bay City Rollers ) (died
2021 )
17 November –
Peter Cox , English singer-songwriter (
Go West )
30 November –
Billy Idol , singer
6 December –
Edward Tudor-Pole , singer and TV presenter
15 December –
Paul Simonon , bassist (
The Clash )
31 December –
Tom Morton , musician, broadcaster and writer
Deaths
10 January –
Annette Mills , partner of "Muffin the Mule", 60
9 March –
Louie René , singer and actress, 83
12 April –
W. H. Anderson , composer, 72
4 July –
Ruth Vincent , operatic soprano, 78
13 August –
Florence Easton , soprano, 72
14 October –
Harry Parr-Davies , composer and songwriter, 41 (perforated ulcer)
[13]
30 October –
Harry Dean , British-born Canadian conductor, pianist, organist and music educator, 76
14 November –
Carl Denton , Yorkshire-born American conductor, 80
21 December –
Gladys Ripley , operatic contralto, 47
See also
References
^ Reed (2008): p. 304.
^ Reed (2008): p. 287.
^ Gloag, Kenneth (2013). "Tippett's operatic world: from The Midsummer Marriage to New Year ". In Gloag, Kenneth; Jones, Nicholas (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett . Cambridge University Press. pp. 230–31.
ISBN
978-1-107-60613-5 .
^
optus net
^ Kendall, Alan (2000). The Chronicle of Classical Music . London: Thames & Hudson. p. 240.
^
The People , 24 July 1955, cited in Mitchell (2004), p. 7.
^ Lucas, John (2008). Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
ISBN
978-1-84383-402-1 . p. 330.
^ Burn, Andrew (2004).
"Bliss, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond (1891–1975)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/30827 . Retrieved 2015-01-06 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^
"Eric Coates" . Boosey & Hawkes.
^
"Cranks" . The Guide to Musical Theatre . 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-26 .
^
"Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine" .
AllMusic . Retrieved 14 May 2009 .
^ Petridis, Alexis (28 November 2010).
"Peter Christopherson obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 December 2013 .
^ Walford, Rex (2004).
"Davies, Harry Parr (1914–1955)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/75739 . Retrieved 2011-08-21 .
Sources
Britten, Benjamin (2004). Reed, Phillip; Cooke, Mervyn; Mitchell, Donald (eds.). Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol 3, 1946–1951 . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
978-0571299300 .
Britten, Benjamin (2008). Reed, Phillip; Cooke, Mervyn; Mitchell, Donald (eds.). Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol 4, 1952–1957 . Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
ISBN
9781843833826 .
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