1 January:RICHARD COLÓN bka CRAZY LEGS = Puerto Rican breakdancer, member of Rock Steady Crew
3 January:MARTIN GALWAY = Northern Irish composer
4 January:DEANA CARTER = American country music artist
5 January:KATE SCHELLENBACH = American musician, member of Luscious Jackson
6 January:A. R. RAHMAN = Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist
7 January:EHAB TAWFIK = Egyptian singer
8 January:ANDREW WOOD = American musician best known as the lead singer for alternative rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone = [died: 1990]
14 January:MARCO HIETALA = Finnish rock bassist, member of Nightwish
17 January:
STEPHIN MERRITT = American singer-songwriter, best known as the principal singer and songwriter of the band The Magnetic Fields
SHABBA RANKS = Jamaican dancehall artist
20 January:
TRACII GUNS = American guitarist
WES KING = American contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, photographer, and musician
21 January:WENDY JAMES = British rock singer, member of Transvision Vamp
30 January:HANS TUTSCHKU = German composer
2 February:ROBERT DeLEO = American bass player, songwriter, and backing vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots
6 February:RICK ASTLEY = English singer, songwriter, musician, and radio personality
9 February:RACHEL BOLAN = American musician, member of Skid Row
26 February:NAJWA KARAM = Lebanese singer
3 March:TONE-LOC = American rapper and actor
4 March:
GRAND PUBA = American rapper, member of Brand Nubian
PATRICK HANNAN = English musician
7 March:ATSUSHI SAKURAI = Japanese singer, member of Buck-Tick
10 March:EDIE BRICKELL = American singer-songwriter
12 March:DAVID DANIELS = American countertenor
18 March:JERRY CANTRELL = American musician who is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains
19 March:ANJA RUPEL = Slovene pop singer, songwriter, radio announcer, and journalist
21 March:CHRISTOPHER EDWARD MARTIN bka DJ PREMIER = American Record Producer and DJ, and was half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr
25 March:JEFF HEALEY = Canadian guitarist = [died: 2008]
11 April:LISA STANSFIELD = English singer, songwriter and actress
13 April:MARC FORD = American blues-rock guitarist. He's a former lead guitarist of the rock and roll jam band The Black Crowes
15 April:SAMANTHA FOX = British model and singer
18 April:ANA VOOG = American singer-songwriter
28 April:TODD ANTHONY SHAW bka TOO SHORT = American rapper, producer and actor
1 May:ANNE FLETCHER = American film director and choreographer
8 May:
BLAG DAHLIA = American musician, producer, and author
MARTA SÁNCHEZ = Spanish vocalist and entertainer
10 May:WADE DOMÍNGUEZ = American actor, model, singer and dancer = [died: 1998]
11 May:
ALISON GOLDFRAPP = English musician and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp
CHRISTOPH SCHNEIDER = German rock musician, member of Rammstein
12 May:BEBEL GILBERTO = Brazilian popular singer
13 May:
DARIUS RUCKER = American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish
JEFFREY SCOTT HOLLAND = American artist and musician
14 May:RAPHAEL SAADIQ = American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and record producer
16 May:JANET JACKSON = American singer-songwriter and dancer
19 May:NEIL CAMPBELL = British musician
22 May:JOHNNY GILL = American singer-songwriter and actor, member of New Edition
24 May:ELLA GURU = American painter and musician
26 May:TOMMY STEWART = American drummer, currently for the rock band Lo-Pro. He is probably best known for his stint with the band Godsmack
27 May:TITI DJ = Indonesian pop singer
28 May:THEO BLECKMANN = German vocalist and composer
30 May:STEPHEN MALKMUS = American rock singer, member of Pavement
4 June:CECILIA BARTOLI = Italian operatic mezzo-soprano
8 June:
JENS KIDMAN = Swedish musician
DORIS PEARSON = English R&B singer, member of Five Star
14 June:MATT FREEMAN = American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy, Rancid and as the frontman of Devil's Brigade
15 June:ROBERTO CARNEVALE = Italian musician
22 June:SCHOOLY D = American rapper
28 June:BOBBY BARE, Jr. = American musician
7 July:GUNDULA KRAUSE = German violinist
11 July:MELANIE APPLEBY = English singer, half of Mel and Kim = [died: 1990]
13 July:GERALD LEVERT = American singer = [died: 2006]
14 July:TANYA DONELLY = American musician
15 July:JASON BONHAM = English drummer and son of John Bonham
17 July:KEITH ELAM = American rapper, producer, and actor best known as a member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr
20 July:STONE GOSSARD = American musician who serves as the rhythm and additional lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam
29 July:MARTINA McBRIDE = American country singer
11 August:JUAN MARÍA SOLARE = Argentine composer and pianist
19 August:
LILIAN GARCIA = American singer and wrestling ring announcer
LEE ANN WOMACK = American country music singer-songwriter
20 August:DIMEBAG DARRELL = American rock guitarist, member of Pantera = [died: 2004]
22 August:GARY GRICE bka GZA and THE GENIUS = American rapper, songwriter
25 August:
DEREK SHERINIAN = American keyboardist
NORMAN ROGERS bka TERMINATOR X = American DJ and record producer
26 August:SHIRLEY MANSON = Scottish rock musician, member of Garbage
4 September:YANKA DYAGILEVA = Russian singer
8 September:CAROLA HÄGGKVIST = Swedish pop singer
10 September:ROBIN GOODRIDGE = English musician, member of Bush, Stone Gods and The Spear of Destiny
12 September:BEN FOLDS = American singer-songwriter and record producer, frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five {1995-2000}
17 September:DOUG E. FRESH = American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
20 September:NUNO BETTENCOURT = Portuguese guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme
22 September:MOUSTAFA AMAR = Egyptian pop star
2 October:MOUSSE T. = German DJ and record producer of Turkish origin
12 October:BRIAN KENNEDY = Irish musician and author
15 October:ERIC BENÉT = American R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter and actor
18 October:TIM CROSS = American musician, member of Sponge
19 October:SINITTA = American-born singer and actress
31 October:
ANNABELLA LWIN = Anglo-Burmese singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow
ADAM KEEFE HOROVITZ bka AD-ROCK or KING AD-ROCK = American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known as a member of the hip hop group The Beastie Boys
6 November:
PAUL GILBERT = American musician
CHRISTIAN LORENZ = German musician, notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein
11 November:PEACHES = Canadian musician
17 November:JEFF BUCKLEY = American singer-songwriter and guitarist = [died: 1997]
20 November:KEVIN GILBERT = American singer, composer, and instrumentalist
23 November:CHARLIE GROVER = American musician, member of Sponge
25 November:STACY LATTISAW = American R&B, dance, and gospel singer
12 December:GREG LONG = American contemporary Christian musician
20 December:CHRIS ROBINSON = American musician. He was the singer of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes
23 December:BOBBY SCHAYER = American drummer for Bad Religion {1991-2001}
Timeline of Musical Events
3 January: Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work it Out"
8 January: Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests The Kinks and The Who
14 January: Young singer DAVID JONES changes his last name to BOWIE to avoid being confused with DAVY JONES of The Monkees
17 January: Simon & Garfunkel release "Sounds of Silence", which hits #1 on Billboard charts
21 January:GEORGE HARRISON marries fashion model PATTIE BOYD. The couple met on the set of the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night.
28 January: The Small Faces release 3rd single "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" reaching #3 in the UK Singles Chart.
2 February: The first edition of Go-Set magazine is published in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by former Monash University students Phillip Frazer and Tony Schauble, the new weekly is the first independent periodical in Australia devoted entirely to popular music and youth culture. The inaugural 24-page issue has a cover feature on Tom Jones, stories on The Groop, singer Pat Carroll and DJ Ken Sparkes and a feature on mod fashion by designer Prue Acton.
6 February: The Animals appear a fifth time on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform their iconic Vietnam-anthem hit "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
19 February: Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore.
3 March: Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay form Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles, California.
4 March: The Beatles' John Lennon is quoted in the London newspaper, The Evening Standard as saying that the band was now more popular than Jesus. In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the Southern US's Bible Belt.
5 March: The 11th Eurovision Song Contest is staged in the Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg. Udo Jürgens, having represented Austria in the last two contests (sixth in 1964; fourth in 1965), finally scores a first for the country, with "Merci Chérie", which he co-wrote.
6 March: In the UK, 5,000 fans of the Beatles sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson to reopen Liverpool's Cavern Club.
April: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass set a world record by placing five albums simultaneously on Billboard's Pop Album Chart, with four of them the Top 10. Their music outsells The Beatles by a margin of two-to-one... over 13 million recordings. They win 4 Grammys this year.
11 April: first public performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, of Giacomo Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, though the official opening of the new opera house would not take place until September 16.
12 April: In Los Angeles, California, Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean, crashes his Corvette into a truck that is parked on Whittier Boulevard. Berry suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage.
1 May: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Who perform at the New Musical Express' poll winners' show in London. The show is televised, but The Beatles' and The Stones' segments are omitted because of union conflicts.
6 May: The Small Faces release 4th single "Hey Girl" it reaches #10 in UK Singles Chart.
17 May: Bob Dylan and the Hawks (later The Band) perform at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England. Dylan is booed by the audience because of his decision to tour with an electric band, the boos culminating in the famous "Judas" shout.
30 May: Them fronted by Van Morrison began a three-week stint as the headliner act at the Whisky a Go Go. On the last night June 18, they were joined on stage by that week's opening act The Doors. Van and Jim Morrison sang "Gloria" together.
6 June: At Gallatin, Tennessee, 25-year-old Claudette Frady-Orbison, while motorcycycle riding with her husband Roy Orbison, was killed when her motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck.
2 July: The Beatles become the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo. The performance ignited a lot of protest from local citizens who felt that it was inappropriate for a rock and roll band to play at Budokan.
29 July: Bob Dylan is involved in a motorcycle accident.
1 August: "Midsummer Serenades: A Mozart Festival" is held – the first Mostly Mozart Festival.
11 August: John Lennon holds a press conference in Chicago, Illinois to apologize for his remarks the previous March. "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I was not knocking it. I was not saying we are greater or better."
17 August: The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra becomes the first major overseas orchestra to perform at The Proms.
29 August: The Beatles perform their last official concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California
12 September: First episode of The Monkees is broadcast on NBC Television
14 September: George Harrison and wife Patti Boyd travel to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with Ravi Shankar
16 September:
The Metropolitan Opera House opens with the première of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra. The opera is rejected by the critics.
Eric Burdon records a solo album after leaving The Animals and appears on the show "Ready, Steady, Go", singing "Help Me Girl", a UK #14 solo hit. Also on the show are Otis Redding and Chris Farlowe.
8 October: WOR-FM in New York City becomes the first FM rock music station, under the leadership of DJ Murray The K.
9 November: John Lennon meets Yoko Ono when he attends a preview of her art exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London.
Also in 1966:
DALIDA receives, for a second time, the Music Hall Bravos.
CHARLIE PRIDE is signed by RCA.
The Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales (Centre for Automatic and Mathematical Music) is founded in Paris by Iannis Xenakis.
Published Popular Songs
"Alfie" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH from the film 'Alfie'
"Big Spender" = lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS; music by CY COLEMAN from the musical 'Sweet Charity'
"If I Were a Carpenter" = lyrics & music by TIM HARDIN
"Sunny" = lyrics & music by BOBBY HEBB
"We Can Work It Out" = lyrics & music by JOHN LENNON & PAUL McCARTNEY
"Wedding Bell Blues" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
Classical Music
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Fantasy for solo flute
JEAN BARRAQUÉ
Chant aprés chant
GEORGE CRUMB
Eleven Echoes of Autumn (Echoes I) for violin, alto flute, clarinet, and piano
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Junctures for flute, clarinet, and violin
Synchronisms No. 4 for chorus and tape
JOHN SERRY, Sr.
Concerto For Free Bass Accordion
ROGER SESSIONS
Symphony No. 6
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op. 122
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Adieu (für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer), for wind quintet, Nr. 21
Telemusik, electronic and concrete music, Nr. 20
ROBERT WARD
Fiesta Processional
Opera
SAMUEL BARBER
Antony and Cleopatra
VITTORIO GIANNINI
Servant of Two Masters
PETER WESTERGAARD
Mr and Mrs Discobbolos
GRACE WILLIAMS
The Parlour
Musical Theatre
THE APPLE TREE
Broadway production
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Broadway-bound production (closed in previews)
CABARET
(John Kander & Fred Ebb)
Broadway production (1,165-performances)
FUNNY GIRL
(Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)
London production
I DO! I DO!
Broadway production
IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN
Broadway production
THE MAD SHOW
Off-Broadway production
MAME
Broadway production
THE PENNY FRIEND
Off-Broadway production
SWEET CHARITY
(Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Neil Simon)
Broadway production
WAIT A MINIM!
Off-Broadway production
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 24th August 2011
Last edited: 19th February 2024
