This is a summary of 1941 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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Film and Incidental music
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12 January – Long John Baldry , R&B singer (died 2005 )[ 5] 4 February – John Steel , drummer (The Animals and Eggs over Easy )14 February – Big Jim Sullivan , English guitarist (died 2012 )[ 6] 5 April – Dave Swarbrick , folk musician (died 2016 )[ 7] 11 April – Arthur Davies , operatic tenor (died 2018 )[ 8] 13 April – Margaret Price , soprano23 April – Ed Stewart , disc jockey (died 2016 )3 May – Paul Ferris , film composer and actor (died 1995 )9 May – Pete Birrell , bass player (Freddie and the Dreamers )11 May – Eric Burdon , R&B singer (The Animals )21 May – Martin Carthy , folk musician9 June – Jon Lord , keyboard player and composer (died 2012 )12 June – Reg Presley , singer and songwriter (died 2013 )30 June
7 July – Jim Rodford , bass player (The Kinks , The Swinging Blue Jeans , The Zombies , The Kast Off Kinks and Argent )17 July – Spencer Davis , instrumentalist (The Spencer Davis Group )20 August – Anne Evans , operatic soprano10 September – Christopher Hogwood , conductor and harpsichordist27 October – Don Partridge , singer-songwriter (died 2010 )2 November – Brian Poole , singer (The Tremeloes )15 November – Rick Kemp , singer-songwriter, bass player and producer (Steeleye Span )24 November – Pete Best , rock drummer (The Beatles original lineup)27 December
29 December – Ray Thomas , rock flautist and singer-songwriter (The Moody Blues) (died 2018 )
10 January – Frank Bridge , composer, 6119 February – Sir Hamilton Harty , conductor and composer, 6111 March – Sir Henry Walford Davies , composer, 7127 March – Stewart Macpherson , music teacher and writer, 75[ 9] 16 August – John Coates , operatic tenor, 76date unknown – William Hargreaves , music hall composer
^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2 1939–45 . London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-160581 . p. 629
^ Lloyd, Stephen (2001). William Walton: Muse of Fire . Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-803-7 . p. 173
^ "New BBC Director of Music", The Times , 1 April 1942, p. 7
^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). p. 961
^ Dave Laing (23 July 2005). "Long John Baldry" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 April 2020 . ^ Dave Laing (3 October 2012). "Big Jim Sullivan" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 April 2020 . ^ Brock Helander (1 January 2001). The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music ISBN 978-0-85712-811-9 ^ "Arthur Davies (1941–2018)" , English National Opera , 9 August 2018^ Shaw, Watkins. "Macpherson, (Charles) Stewart". Grove Music Online (subscription access)
