This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Musical theatre
Births
- 9 January â Clive Dunn, comedy actor and chart-topping singer (died 2012)
- 23 March â Geoffrey Bush, composer, writer and broadcaster (d. 1998)
- 12 April â The Cox Twins, music hall entertainers (Frank, died 2007, and Fred, died 2013)
- 14 April â Ivor Forbes Guest, historian of dance (died 2018)
- 2 May â Joe "Mr. Piano" Henderson, Scottish pianist and composer (died 1980)
- 13 May â Gareth Morris, flautist (died 2007)
- 20 May â Betty Driver, singer and actress (died 2011)
- 19 June â Johnny Douglas, film composer and conductor (died 2003)
- 21 August â John Hanson, singer and actor (died 1998)
- 5 September â Peter Racine Fricker, composer (died 1990)
- 27 September â Alan A. Freeman, record producer (died 1985)
- 12 October â Steve Conway, singer (died 1952)
- 12 December â Dick James, singer and record producer (died 1986)
Deaths
- 21 January â John Henry Maunder, composer, 61
- 24 January â Percy French, Irish-born songwriter, 65 (pneumonia)
- 7 April â Alice Elgar, wife of composer Edward Elgar, 72 (lung cancer)
- 5 May â Robert Bryan, poet and composer, 61
- 28 May - Hardwicke Rawnsley, hymn-writer, 68
- 28 June - Pauline Rita, singer and actress, about 78
- 14 December â George J. Gaskin, Irish singer, 57
See also
References