| 1960s British Rock and Pop Chronology |
| The Birth of a Nation 8: 1945 |
| 3 Jan | Hull, Yorkshire: Philip Goodhand-Tate. Singer: The Stormville Shakers, Circus. Songwriter |
| 7 Jan | Hounslow, Middlesex: David Joseph Cousins. The Strawberry Hill Boys, The Strawbs. |
| 10 Jan | Highgate, North London: Roderick ("Rod") David Stewart. Singer; Long John Baldry and Hoochie Coochie Men, The Soul Agents, The Jeff Beck Group |
| 20 Jan | Manchester: Eric Michael Stewart Jr. Guitar, vocals; Mindbenders |
| 21 Jan | Middlesex:
Barry Younghusband [Warm Sounds] Folkstone, Kent: Peter Kircher. Drums; Neil Landon and the Burnettes, The Lonely Ones, Honeybus, The Original Mirrors, Status Quo. |
| 4 Feb | Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet |
| 5 Feb | Paddington, West London: Reg King [b Reginald King]. Vocals; The Boyfriends, The Boys, Action |
| 6 Feb | St. Anns, Jamaica: Robert Marley |
| 20 Feb | Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Alan Hull [b. James Alan Hull]. Vocalist, guitarist: The Cresters, The Chosen Few, Lindisfarne |
| 24 Feb | Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: "Lemmy" [b. Ian Fraser Kilminster]. Bass, vocals, guitar: The Rainmakers, The Motown Sect, The Rocking Vickers, Sam Gopal's Dream, Opal Butterfly, Hawkwind |
| 25 Feb | Dunstable: Richard (Duke) Palmer. Barron Knights |
| 6 Mar | Winchester: Hugh Birch Grundy. Drums: Zombies |
| 7 Mar | Richmond, Surrey: Tony "Top" Topham [b. Anthony Topham]. Guitar |
| 9 Mar | Catford, London: Robin Leonard Trower. Guitar: Procul Harum |
| 22 Mar | Cairo: The Arab League |
| 24 Mar | Birmingham: Michael ("Mike") Kellie. Drummer: Locomotive, The VIP's, Spooky Tooth |
| 26 Mar | Detroit: Diana Ross |
| 29 Mar | Hounslow, Middlesex: Don Craine [b. Michael John O'Donell]. Vocals; the Downliners Sect. |
| 30 Mar | Ripley: Eric Patrick Clapton |
| Austria: The Soviet Union invades | |
| 12 Apr | Warm
Springs, Georgia: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (63) dies Washington, D.C.: Harry S. Truman becomes President of the US |
| Houston, near Glasgow, Renfreshire, Scotland: Miller Anderson. Guitarist: The Royal Crest, Karl Stuart and the Profile, The Voice, The Scenery, The Paper Blitz Tissue | |
| 14 Apr | Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset: Richard Hugh Blackmore. Guitar; Outlaws: Deep Purple |
| 17 Apr | Liverpool: Anthony (Tony) Crane. Merseybeats |
| 19 Apr | New York City: Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway |
| 23 Apr | Watford, Hertfordshire: John Samuel Allen. Guitar; Nashville Teens |
| 25 Apr | Hampshire: David ("Dave") Lawson. Keyboards: Episode Six, Web, Samurai, Greenslade, Stackridge |
| 25 Apr | San Francisco: delegates meet to organize a "United Nations" |
| 28 Apr | Dongo, Italy: Benito Mussolini dies while attempting to escape |
| 30 Apr | Berlin: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide |
| May | World War II ends: 360,000 British dead, urban centers destroyed by German bombing, repayment of a massive war debt to US and Canada begins (final payment in 2008) |
| 2 May | Berlin: falls to Soviet troops Italy and parts of Austria: Nazi troops surrender to the Allies |
| 3 May | Rangoon: Indian forces capture Burma from the Japanese |
| 4 May | Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany: German forces surrender |
| 7 May | Rheims, France: Germany unconditionally surrenders |
| Dublin Co Dublin, Eire: Christopher ("Christie") Andrew Moore. Folk singer, guitarist | |
| 9 May | US: end of the midnight entertainment curfew |
| 12 May | Hounslown, Middlesex: Ian Patrick McLagen. Organ; Small Faces. |
| 16 May | Harrow, Middlesex: Bobby Posner [b. Robert Powell]. Bass: The Rokes |
| 19 May | Chiswick, London: Peter (Pete) Dennis Blandford Townshend |
| 24 May | Ponders End, Middlesex: Dave Peacock. Bass; Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers |
| 29 May | Hackney Hospital, 230 Homerton High Street, Hackney, London: Gary Brooker. Vocals, piano: The Raiders, The Paramounts, Procul Harum. |
| 4 Jun | Braemar, Scotland: Gordon Waller. Vocals, guitar: Peter and Gordon. |
| 12 Jun | Andover: Reg Presley (b. Reginals Ball). Vocals, guitar: Troggs. |
| 14 Jun | St. Albans: Rod Argent. Singer, songwriter, Zombies, Argent |
| 18 Jun | London: William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") charged with high treason for his broadcasts on German radio |
| 24 Jun | Hatfield: Colin Edward Michael Blunstone. Singer: Zombies |
| 26 Jun | San Francisco: The signing of the United Nations Charter by its founding members |
| 28 Jun | Islington, North London: David John Knights. Bass: Procol Harum |
| 2 Jul | Calcutta: Peter Cruickshank. Bass: Groundhogs |
| 5 Jul | Britain: Labour Party victory; Clement Atlee becomes Prime Minister; subsequent expansion of social security system |
| 14 Jul | Liverpool: Stuart Leslie. Mojos |
| 16 Jul | US: the first atomic bomb explosion, in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico |
| 19 Jul | Coventry, Warwickshire: Wez Price. Guitar: The Unknowns, The Autocrats, The Sorrows, Indian Summer |
| 21 Jul | Stoke-on-Trent: Michael Wilshen. Four Pennies |
| 2 Aug | Potsdam, New York: Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President Truman, and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin conclude theirconference |
| 6 Aug | Hiroshima, Japan: The United States drops an atomic bomb killing about 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare |
| 8 Aug | The Soviet Union declares war against Japan Truman signs the United Nations Charter |
| 9 Aug | Nagasaki, Japan: The United States detonates a nuclear device killing about 74,000 |
| Hounslown, Middlesex: Ian Gillian. Vocals: Deep Purple. | |
| 13 Aug | Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire: Philip Peckham. Bass: The Vampires, The Boys Blue, The Sorrows |
| 14 Aug | Tokyo: Japan surrenders unconditionally |
| 18 Aug | Sydney, Australia: Vince Melouney. Bee Gees |
| 19 Aug | Wales: Brian Godding. Guitarist, vocals: The Grave Diggers, The Ingoes, Blossom Toes |
| 21 Aug | US: End of the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to American allies |
| 31 Aug | Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland: George Ivan ("Van") Morrison. Vocals: Them. |
| 2 Spt | Japan
formally signs documents of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending
World War II Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam an independent republic |
| 2 Spt | Cleethorpes: Chris Holmes [b. Christopher Noel Holmes]. Organ: Time Box, Babe Ruth |
| 5 Spt | Glasgow, Scotland: Al Stewart. [folk artist] |
| 9 Spt | Finchley, London: Andrea Simpson. Caravelles |
| Oct | New York: American Export offers regularly scheduled landplane commercial transatlantic flights between New York, Gander, Shannon, and Bournemouth. Flight time=14 hours on a DC4. |
| 1 Oct | Lincoln: John Roy Tebb. Casuals |
| 7 Oct | Manchester: Kevin Godley. Drummer: The Sabres, 10cc |
| 8 Oct | The Pinewoods: Ray Royer. Procol Harum |
| Washington, D.C.: President Truman announces that the U.S. would only share the secret of the atomic bomb with Britain and Canada | |
| 14 Oct | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Colin Hodgkinson. Bass: Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, Brian Auger, Back Door, Cozy Powell's Hammer |
| 20 Oct | Cannock, Staffordshire: Richard ("Ric") Lee. Drummer: Ricky Storm and the Storm Cats, The Mansfields, The Jay Birds, Ten Years After, Chicken Shack |
| 21 Oct | Birmingham: Harry Llewellyn Jackson. Applejacks |
| 24 Oct | The United Nations charter takes effect |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Michael ("Micky") Gallagher. Organ: The Wayfarers, The Unknowns, The Cresters, The Wreckendykes, The Hi Fis, Billy Bain and the Phantoms, The Clique, The Chosen Few, The Animals, Skip Bifferty, Arc, Bell and Arc | |
| 28 Oct | Manchester: Wayne Fontana [b. Glynn Geoffrey Ellis]. Singer |
| 30 Oct | U.S.: government announces the end of shoe rationing (NYTimes) |
| 31 Oct | Nottingham: Richard ("Rick") Kenton. Bassist: Mouse Proof, Armada, Leigh Stevens, Roxy Music |
| 19 Nov | Britain: Andrew McCulloch. Drums: Shylimbs |
| 20 Nov | Nuremberg, Germany: 24 Nazi leaders go on trial before the Nuremberg Tribunal |
| 23 Nov | U.S.: Most wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends |
| 25 Nov | Lincoln: Howard Newcomb. Casuals |
| 26 Nov | Ealing,
West London: John Graham McVie. Bass: John Mayalls Bluesbreakers,
Fleetwood Mac. Macclesfield, Cheshire: Joe Beard [b. Christopher John Beard]. Guitar: The Purple Gang. |
| 30 Nov | Brynllici
Farm, Bwlch, near Brecon, Powys, Wales: Roger David Glover. Bass,
vocals: The Madisons, The Lightenings, Episode Six, Deep Purple Coventry: Robert Woodward / Shel Naylor [b. Robert George Woodward]. Singer, piano: Stavely Makepeace, Lieutenant Pigeon |
| 12 Dec | Nottingham: Alan Ward. Guitar, piano, organ: Honeycombs |
| 25 Dec | Folkstone, Kent: Noel David Redding. Bass: Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 30 Dec | Manchester: Davy Jones [b. David Thomas Jones]. Singer, guitarist: The Monkees, "Coronation Street" |
| 31 Dec | Wales: Martin Ace. bassist: The Vikings, The Jets, The Aces, Breeze, Man |
| Other 1945 Artifacts | |
| Chopwell, Co. Durham: Richard (Ricky) Brown. Bass: Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages | |
| Fullerton,
California: the K & F Manufacturing Corporation, founded by Clayton
Orr (Doc) Kauffman and Clarence Leonidas ("Leo") Fender, begins
producing electric Hawaiian lap steel guitars. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Gibson begins manufacturing the P-90 single-coil pickup. |
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| This site is a living document. I welcome corrections and suggestions. Gordon Thompson, Department of Music, Skidmore College | |||
| Copyright © 1995 — 04-Feb-2011 Gordon Thompson |
