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For music from a year in the 1950s, go to 50 | 51 | 52 ... This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s ... at 07:50 (UTC).
This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England, UK .
Watts was born Mary Spenton in London in 1923. She appeared in many British films, including the Joan Littlewood production Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), and as herself in Portrait of Queenie (1964), featuring in scenes set around Poplar, the Isle of Dogs and the Iron Bridge Tavern, Poplar, which she ran in real life and in which she starred in the TV series Stars and Garters (1963). [2]
Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. [1] [2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
Music portal; United Kingdom portal ... British musical theatre actresses (5 C, 51 P) O. British women opera singers (9 C) P. British women pop singers (1 C, 30 P) R ...
However, it was important in establishing British youth and popular music culture and was a key factor in subsequent developments that led to the 'British Invasion' of the mid-1960s. Since the 1960s some stars of the genre, most notably Cliff Richard , have managed to sustain very successful careers and there have been periodic revivals of this ...
The first band to owe their American success solely down to their glossy music video receiving heavy rotation on MTV were the synthpop band A Flock of Seagulls, whose single "I Ran (So Far Away)" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1982. [51]: 340, 342–3 In 1983, 30% of the record sales were from British acts. Eighteen of ...
This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.