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This is a summary of 1969 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is accused of arrogance by TV producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 show Happening for Lulu .
12 January –
Led Zeppelin 's eponymous début album is released.
18 January –
Pete Best wins his defamation lawsuit against
The Beatles . Best had originally sought $8 million, but ended up being awarded much less.
30 January – The Beatles perform for the last time in public, on the roof of the
Apple building at 3 Savile Row, London. The performance, which is filmed for the
Let It Be movie, is stopped early by police after neighbors complain about the noise.
3 February –
John Lennon ,
George Harrison and
Ringo Starr hire
Allen Klein as The Beatles' new business manager against the wishes of
Paul McCartney .
4 February – Paul McCartney hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman,
Linda Eastman 's father's law firm, as general legal counsel for Apple.
18 February –
Lulu and
Maurice Gibb are married.
2 March –
John Lennon performs publicly outside The Beatles for the first time, with
Yoko Ono at an improvised concert in
Cambridge .
[1]
12 March
Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London.
George Harrison and his wife
Pattie are arrested on charges of
hashish possession.
20 March – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at a 10-minute ceremony in the British Consulate Office in Gibraltar.
29 March – At the 14th annual
Eurovision Song Contest held at the
Teatro Real , Madrid, Spain, the final result is a four-way tie for first place between
Spain ("
Vivo cantando " –
Salomé );
United Kingdom ("
Boom Bang-a-Bang " –
Lulu );
Netherlands ("
De troubadour " –
Lenny Kuhr ) and
France ("
Un jour, un enfant " –
Frida Boccara ). As there is no tie-break rule, the four entries involved, who each scored 18 points, are declared joint winners.
22 April
24 April – The Beatles make a $5.1 million counteroffer to the
Northern Songs stockholders in an attempt to keep Associated TV from controlling the band's music.
2 June – John Lennon and Yoko Ono host a "
Bed-In " at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. The couple records the song "
Give Peace a Chance " live in their suite with
Tommy Smothers ,
Timothy Leary , and several others.
11 June –
David Bowie releases the single "
Space Oddity ".
13 June –
Mick Taylor joins the
Rolling Stones .
29 June – Bass player
Noel Redding announces to the media that he has quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience, having effectively done so during the recording of Electric Ladyland .
3 July –
Brian Jones is found dead in the swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England, almost a month after leaving The Rolling Stones.
5 July – The Rolling Stones proceed with a free concert in Hyde Park, London as a tribute to Brian Jones; it is also the band's first concert with guitarist
Mick Taylor . Estimates of the audience range from 250,000 to 400,000.
8 August –
Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for
The Beatles ' album
Abbey Road at a north London
zebra crossing near the
Abbey Road Studios .
16 August – David Bowie stages the Growth Summer Festival, a free concert at
Croydon Road Recreation Ground in Beckenham, south London.
[3]
20 August – Final session for
The Beatles ' album
Abbey Road at
Abbey Road Studios in London, the last time all four members of the band are present in a studio together.
[4]
13 September – John Lennon and
Plastic Ono Band perform at the
Toronto Rock and Roll Revival 12-hour music festival, backed by
Eric Clapton ,
Klaus Voormann and
Alan White . It is Lennon's first public rock performance without one or more of The Beatles since meeting Paul McCartney in 1957. He decides before returning to Britain to leave The Beatles permanently.
26 September –
The Beatles ' album
Abbey Road is released. It includes two songs written by
George Harrison , "
Here Comes the Sun " and "
Something ".
[5]
7 November – The Rolling Stones open their U.S. tour in Fort Collins, Colorado.
December – Release of
Fairport Convention 's pioneering
folk rock album
Liege & Lief .
date unknown
Charts
Classical music
New works
Opera
Film and incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
22 January –
Olivia d'Abo , English-American singer-songwriter and actress
11 February – Shovell (Andrew Lovell), percussionist (
M People )
21 February –
James Dean Bradfield , Welsh alternative rock singer-songwriter (
Manic Street Preachers )
28 February –
Murray Gold , stage and screen composer
1 March –
Dafydd Ieuan , Welsh alternative rock drummer (
Super Furry Animals )
12 March –
Graham Coxon , guitarist (
Blur )
25 March –
Cathy Dennis , pop singer-songwriter
11 April –
Cerys Matthews , singer
22 April –
Craig Logan , bassist (
Bros )
27 April
14 May – Steve Hillier, songwriter (
Dubstar )
4 June –
Peter Fribbins , composer
26 June –
Colin Greenwood , alternative rock bass player and songwriter (
Radiohead )
13 July –
Barney Greenway , extreme metal singer-songwriter (
Napalm Death ,
Extreme Noise Terror and
Benediction )
17 September –
Adam Devlin , guitarist (
The Bluetones )
9 October –
PJ Harvey (born Polly Jean Harvey), alternative rock singer-songwriter
7 December –
James Francis Brown , composer
12 December –
Rodney P (born Rodney Panton), MC, "godfather of
British hip hop "
17 December –
Mick Quinn , bassist (
Supergrass )
30 December –
Jay Kay (born Jason Cheetham), funk singer-songwriter (
Jamiroquai ), son of singer
Karen Kay
date unknown
Deaths
2 March –
Anna Bethell , actress and singer, 76
25 March –
Billy Cotton , bandleader, 69
26 March –
Clara Dow , operatic soprano, 85
27 March –
David Lloyd , tenor, 56
1 May –
Ella Logan , actress and singer, 56 (cancer)
3 July –
Brian Jones , guitarist, founder member of
The Rolling Stones , 27 (drowned)
11 August –
Miriam Licette , operatic soprano, 83
10 October –
Gilbert Vinter , conductor and composer, 60
[7]
18 November –
Ted Heath , bandleader, 67
See also
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