This is a summary of 1969 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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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 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 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 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 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
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Film and incidental music
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22 January – Olivia d'Abo , English-American singer-songwriter and actress11 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 composer1 March – Dafydd Ieuan , Welsh alternative rock drummer (Super Furry Animals )12 March – Graham Coxon , guitarist (Blur )25 March – Cathy Dennis , pop singer-songwriter11 April – Cerys Matthews , singer22 April – Craig Logan , bassist (Bros )27 April
14 May – Steve Hillier, songwriter (Dubstar )4 June – Peter Fribbins , composer26 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-songwriter7 December – James Francis Brown , composer12 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
2 March – Anna Bethell , actress and singer, 7625 March – Billy Cotton , bandleader, 6926 March – Clara Dow , operatic soprano, 8527 March – David Lloyd , tenor, 561 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, 8310 October – Gilbert Vinter , conductor and composer, 60[ 7] 18 November – Ted Heath , bandleader, 67
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