Event    From 2015 

BBC Music Day

Categories: Music / songs

A UK-wide annual celebration of music that aims to unite communities and generations through their love of music. In 2017 in conjunction with the British Plaque Trust, 47 plaques celebrating a wide range of musicians, venues and events were erected Nationwide. We cannot find the significance of this number, and wonder why they didn't round it up to an even 50.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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BBC Music Day

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David Bowie - Former Trident Studios

David Bowie, 1947 - 2016. His albums Hunky Dory and The Rise & Fall of Zi...

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Emile Ford

Emile Ford 1937 - 2016 Singer, producer & sound scientist. He made his pe...

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Haroon Shamsher

Haroon Shamsher 1965 - 1999 founder of influential music collective Joi lived...

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Saifullah Zaman

Saifullah 'Sam' Zaman, aka State of Bengal, DJ/music artist, 1965 - 2015, pio...

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Leslie Hutchinson

Leslie Hutchinson

Singer and pianist who performed under the name of 'Hutch'. Born Leslie Arthur Julien Hutchinson in Gouyave, Grenada.  He moved to New York with the intention of studying medicine, but started sing...

Person, Music / songs, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA

1 memorial
Boney M

Boney M

Pop group. Originally, the group comprised four Jamaican born singers. They achieved world-wide chart success with songs such as 'Ma Baker', 'Rivers of Babylon' and 'Rasputin'.

Group, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool. One of the four Beatles. March 1969 married Linda Eastman.

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

4 memorials
BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Concert Orchestra

Originally founded as the BBC Theatre Orchestra. It is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symphony one.

Group, Music / songs

1 memorial
Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Composer, conductor, theatre director and John Wayne look-alike. Born Germany. Came to London in 1839, heavily in debt. Stayed at 23-25 Old Compton Street where he begun the Flying Dutchman, inspir...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre

2 memorials

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Dan Harris

Dan Harris

Aged 28, returning from work to his home in Wanstead, hit by an Olympic media bus (ferrying journalists to the Olympic site).  Died at the scene. Dan was a keen cyclist, having biked across Thailan...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy

1 memorial
St Margaret's  Barking

St Margaret's Barking

Church. Originally a small chapel built outside the walls of Barking Abbey.  Altered and enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries. Captain Cook was married here in 1762.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
The Black Cap

The Black Cap

Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...

Building, Food & Drink, Gender Issues

1 memorial