| 1960s British Rock and Pop Chronology |
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| The Birth of a Nation 4: 1941 |
| 9 Jan | Canada: successful debut of the Lancaster bomber. |
| 12 Jan | East Maddon, Derbyshire: ("Long") John William Baldry [d. 21 July 2005, Vancouver]. Singer |
| 13 Jan | Zurich, Switzerland: James Joyce (59) dies |
| 16 Jan | Hull: Michael (Mike) Waterson. The Watersons |
| 17 Jan | Slough, Buckinghamshire.: Dave Ballinger. Barron Knights |
| 26 Jan | Birmingham: Johnny Spencer [b. John Spencer Holliday]. Bassist: The Red Caps, Cuddly Dudley and the Redcaps, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates |
| 2 Feb | Brombrough, Cheshire: Dave Williams. Dale Robers & the Jaywalkers, Group One, Four Originals |
| 4 Feb | Gateshead, County Durham: John Steel. Drums: Animals |
| 6 Feb | Sheffield: Dave Berry [b. David Holgate Grundy]. Singer: Dave Berry and the Cruisers |
| 4 Feb | Maus, Libya: British troops occupy the city. |
| 14 Feb | Uxbridge, London: Big Jim Sullivan [b. James George Tomkins]. Guitar; Wildcats, Tom Jones, session |
| 21 Feb | Newfoundland: Sir Frederick Banting, surgeon, killed in an air crash |
| 1 Mar | Nashville, Tennesee: First commercial FM radio station. |
| 2 Mar | Bognor Regis: Bruce Welch. Guitar: Shadows |
| 7 Mar | Abissynia: British troops invade. |
| 10 Mar | Kensington, Liverpool: Karl Terry [b. Terence Connor]. Karl Terry and the Cruisers, Group One. |
| 11 Mar | Washington, D.C.: The Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis |
| 12 Mar | Wellington Road?, The Dingle, Liverpool: Brian O'Hara. Guitar, vocals: The Red Mountain Rock and Skiffle Group, The O'Hara Boys, The Four Jays, The Fourmost |
| 18 Mar | Prattville, Alabama: Wilson Pickett |
| 22 Mar | Darney, Buckinghamshire: Jeremy Clyde [b. Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde]. Singer, guitarist: The Jerks, Chad and Jeremy |
| 28 Mar | Newcastle-on-Tyne: Henry ("Hank") B. Marvin. Guitar: the Shadows |
| 30 Mar | Rochester, Staffordshire: Graeme Charles Edge. Drums: Moody Blues. |
| 5 Apr | New Malden, Surrey: Dave Swarbrick [b. David Cyril Eric Swarbrick]. Fiddle: The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Fairport Convention |
| 6-7 Apr | North Africa: German troops capture British generals Gambier-Parry, OConnor, and Neame. |
| 17 Apr | Dingle, Liverpool: Billy Fury [b. Ronald Wycherly; d. London, 28 January 1983]. Singer |
| 18 Apr | Southampton: Michael Vickers. Manfred Mann |
| 27 Apr | Athens, Greece: German troops invade |
| 3 May | Liverpool: German bombing raid. |
| 5 May | Poole Dorset
Hospital, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset: Roy Godfrey Phillips. Guitarist:
The Tornados, The Saints and Andy Cavell, Heinz and the Saints, The
Peddlers |
| 9 May | London: The British break the German enigma code. |
| Manchester, Lancashire: Peter Burell. Bass: The Kingfishers, Freddie and the Dreamers | |
| 10 May | Britain:
The heaviest day of the Blitz London: Fires from Romford to Hammersmith in the London area with 1,436 killed; the House of Commons, Westminster Abbey, the Law Courts, the Royal Mint, and the Tower of London suffer damage. Scotland: Rudolf Hess parachutes and surrenders |
| 11 May | Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne: Eric Victor Burdon. Singer: Animals |
| 12 May | Alexandria, Egypt: British invade. |
| 13 May | Swarby, Lincolnshire: Joe (Joseph Roger) Brown. Singer, guitar; Joe Brown and the Bruvvers. |
| Pacoima, California: Ritchie Valens [b. Richard Stephen Valenzuela; d. 3 February 1959]. Singer, guitarist, songwriter | |
| 16 May | London and Birmingham: Last major Luftwaffe attacks. |
| 21 May | North Atlantic: German U-boat sinks the American SS Robin Moore |
| 22 May | Park Royal, Middlesex: Bruce Rowland. Joe Cocker, Fairport Convention |
| 24 May | North Atlantic: Battleship Bismark sinks the HMS Hood. |
| Duluth, Minnesota: Bob Dylan [b. Robert Allen Zimmerman] | |
| 25 May | Manchester, Lancashire: Roy Crewsdon. Guitar: The Kingfishers, Freddie and the Dreamers |
| 26 May | Woking: Arthur Sharp. Nashville Teens |
| 27 May | North Atlantic: British navy sinks the German battleship "Bismarck" off France |
| 2 Jun | University College Hospital, W1, London: Robert Charles ("Charlie") Watts. Drums: the Rolling Stones. |
| 9 Jun | Leicester:
Jon Douglas Lord. Organ, keyboards; The Bill Ashton Combo, Red Bludd Musicians,
The Art Wood Combo, The Artwoods, Santa Barbara Machine Head, The Flowerpot
Men, Deep Purple Hawkstone Street?, The Dingle, Liverpool: William ("Billy") Hatton. Bass: The Four Jays, The Fourmost |
| 12 Jun | Andover: Reg Presley [b. Reginald Maurice Ball]. Singer, guitar (Troggs) |
| 21 Jun | Liverpool: Brian Redman. (Four Jays; Fourmost; Sonny Webb & the Cascades; Hillsiders) |
| 22 Jun | Baltic Sea: Germany attacks the USSR. |
| 28 Jun | Bushbury, Wolverhampton, Warwickshire: Steve Brett [b. Steven Davies]. Steve Brett and the Mavericks |
| 1 Jul | New York City: WCBW (WCBS) and WNBT TV (W2XBS / WNBC) begin commercial television broadcasting. |
| 10 Jul | Woking: Ian Whitcomb |
| 11 Jul | Leicester, Leicestershire: Henry Thomas Lowther. Trumpet (John Mayall's Bluesbrakers, The Keef Hartley Band, The Henry Lowther Band) |
| 15 Jul | Oxford: Howard Florey and Norman Heatley discover a method of producing Penicillin. |
| 19 Jul | London: Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign |
| 27 Jul | Warrington, Lancashire: John ("Butch") Mepham. Singer, guitar: The Sidekicks, The Metours Skiffle Group, The Jets, the Fourtones (with Allan Clarke & Graham Nash) |
| 2 Aug | Hendon, Middlesex: Andrew Roy Malcolm Steele. Herd |
| 10 Aug | Sunderland: George Bellamy. Guitar: Tornados, sessions |
| 14 Aug | Newfoundland: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt sign Atlantic Charter. |
| 20 Aug | Isleworth: David Anthony Brock. Guitar: Hawkwind |
| 22 Aug | Leningrad: German troops arrive. |
| 23 Aug | Antrim, Northern Ireland: Peter Shannon Harris. Bass (Nashville Teens) |
| 26 Aug | Oldham,
Lancashire: Christopher (Chris) Curtis. Drums: Searchers Northallerton, Yorkshire: Peter Knight, Jr. Producer (Pye) Kirdford, Sussex: Neil Landon / Pat Barlow [b. Neil Cahil]. Singer: The Flowerpot Men |
| 30 Aug | Walton General Hospital, 107 Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool 9: John McNally. Guitar: Searchers |
| 3 Spt | Auschwitz: first use of poison gas (Zyclon-B) on Russian prisoners of war. |
| 6 Spt | Germany: The Nazi government orders Jews over the age of 6 to wear yellow Stars of David |
| 9 Spt | Dawson, Georgia: Otis Redding |
| Huntingdon, Cambridgshire: Russell Hardy. Piano: The People Band | |
| 15 Spt | Liverpool: William Leslie Braid. Swinging Blue Jeans |
| 16 Spt | Battersea, London: Ivor Kenneth Knight. Drums: the Scorpions. |
| 19 Spt | London:
Mike Longhurst-Pickworth. Springfields Fulham, Southwest London: Duffy Power [b. Raymond Howard]. Singer |
| 3 Oct | Andrews, South Carolina: Chubby Checker [b. Ernest Evans] |
| 8 Oct | Leicester: David (Dave) Arbus. Vocals, flute: The Ron Caines Quartet, East of Eden |
| 13 Oct | Newark, New Jersey: Paul Simon |
| 16 Oct | Tokyo: Hideki Tojo becomes Premier |
| 17 Oct | Dagenham, Essex: Alan Howard. Tremeloes |
| 21 Oct | Johannesburg, South Africa: Manfred Mann [b. Michael Sepse Lubowitz]. Keyboards: Manfred Mann. |
| 23 Oct | Aspatra, Cumbria: Greg Ridley [b. Alfred Ridley; d. 19 November 2003, Javera, Spain]. Bass: Dino and the Danubes, The Dakotas, The Ramrods, The VIP's, Art Spooky Tooth |
| 2 Nov | Barking, Essex: Brian Poole |
| 7 Nov | Sefton, Liverpool: Rodney (Rod) Verso Davis. Quarrymen |
| 8 Nov | Crowland, Lincolnshire: Rodney Desborough Slater. Sax: The Bonzo Dog Dada Band, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band |
| 12 Nov | Bordesley Green, Birmingham: Raymond William Froggott. Vocal, guitar: Monopoly, The Raymond Froggott Band. |
| 16 Nov | Barnet, Hertfordshire: Eric John Lawrence. Producer. |
| 18 Nov | Dublin: Con Cluskey. Bachelors. |
| 2 Dec | Wimbeldon: Tom McGuinness [b. Thomas John Patrick McGuinness]. Bass: Manfred Mann. |
| 7 Dec | Pacific: Japan attacks American and British territories and possessions |
| 8 Dec | Washington and London: The US and Britain declare war against Japan |
| 10 Dec | Windermere, Cumbria: Chad Stewart [b. David Stuart Chadwick]. Singer, guitarist: The Jerks, Chad and Jeremy |
| 11 Dec | Berlin: Germany declares war on the US. |
| 20 Dec | Liverpool: Terence OToole. Mojos |
| 25 Dec | Hong Kong: Japanese troops invade |
| 27 Dec | Stourpourt-on-Severn:
Ray Thomas. Moody Blues Wallasey, Cheshire: Leslie Charles Maguire. Gerry and the Pacemakers |
| Other 1941 Events | |
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Edward Molton. Manager Aintree?, Liverpool: William ("Billy") Jones. Guitarist, singer: The Hi-Hats, The Ravens, Faron's Flamingos Barnehurst, Kent: Wes Hunter [b. Richard Thomas]. Bassist: Shakin' Bentley and his Bachelors, Sounds Incorporated |
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| Kalamazoo,
Michigan: Les Paul creates his first
electric guitar, "The Log" in the Gibson Guitar factory Los Angeles, California: Rickenbacker offers four different guitar amplifiers. Los Angeles, California: Glenn Wallichs, Johnny Mercer, and Buddy DeSylva discuss the formation of a record company to be called Capitol Records, established early in 1942. |
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| This site is a living document. I welcome corrections and suggestions. Gordon Thompson, Department of Music, Skidmore College | |||
| Copyright © 1995 — 01-Apr-2008 Gordon Thompson |
