This is a summary of 1943 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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7 January – Richard Armstrong , organist and conductor16 January
28 January – Dick Taylor , bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones , The Pretty Things , and The Mekons )29 January
16 February – Howard Riley , English pianist and composer25 February – George Harrison , guitarist, singer and songwriter (died 2001 )[ 8] 9 March – David Matthews , composer22 March – Keith Relf , lead vocalist and harmonica player of the Yardbirds (died 1976 )[ 9] 29 March – Eric Idle , actor, writer, and songwriter16 April
17 April – Elinor Bennett , harpist20 April – Sir John Eliot Gardiner , conductor[ 11] 25 April – Tony Christie , singer8 May
11 May – Les Chadwick , bass player (Gerry and the Pacemakers ) (died 2019 )14 May – Jack Bruce , vocalist, guitarist and composer (died 2014 )[ 12] 15 June – Muff Winwood , record producer, songwriter, and bass player17 June – Christopher Brown , composer26 July – Mick Jagger , singer and actor (The Rolling Stones )28 July – Richard Wright , keyboardist (Pink Floyd ) (died 2008)24 August – Dafydd Iwan , musician and politician[ 13] 6 September – Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)30 September – Philip Moore , organist and composer3 November – Bert Jansch , folk musician (died 2011 )[ 14] 30 November – Leo Lyons , bassist17 December – Dave Dee , singer (died 2009 )[ 15]
7 February – Clara Novello Davies , singer, mother of Ivor Novello , 81[ 16] 28 March – Ben Davies , operatic tenor, 85[ 17] 14 April – Geoffrey Shaw , church musician and composer, 6325 April – William Edward Wadely , organist and composer, 893 May – Leslie Heward , conductor and composer, 45[ 18] 30 July – Benjamin Dale , composer, 58[ 19] 28 November – Arthur Catterall , violinist and conductor, 60[ 20] 16 December – William Wallace , composer, 80[ 21]
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"Leaders of the banned" Retrieved on 2008-12-16^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions . Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1943. p. 1513.^ Harrison, George (2002) [1980]. I, Me, Mine ISBN 978-0-7538-1734-6 ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The book of golden discs . London: Barrie & Jenkins. p. 199. ISBN 9780214204807 ^ "Ruth Madoc, actress who found fame as the lovelorn Yellowcoat Gladys in the hit sitcom Hi-de-Hi! – obituary" . The Telegraph . 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022 .^ Current Biography Yearbook 1990 . H. W. Wilson Company. 1992. p. 234.^ Alan Clayson (26 October 2014). "Jack Bruce obituary" . The Guardian ^ Who's who in European Politics . Bowker-Saur. 1990. p. 313.^ Ken Hunt (January 2015). "Jansch, Herbert [Bert] (1943–2011)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/104258 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Alan Clayson (9 January 2009). "Obituary: Dave Dee" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 31 December 2011 . ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work ^ Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019 . ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 160. ISBN 9780720123302 ^ Foreman, Lewis (2008). Benjamin Dale—Music for Viola Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine [sleeve notes]. Dutton Epoch. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
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