This is a summary of1958 in music in theUnited Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

• 24 January –Paul McCartney makes his first appearance atThe Cavern Club in Liverpool withThe Quarrymen.^[1]
• 5 February –Michael Tippett'sSymphony No. 2 is first performed inLondon.^[2]
• 12 March – TheUK has not entered thethird annual Eurovision Song Contest, after coming 7th previous year. It is the second of the only two occasions in the contest's history that the UK fails to enter.
• 1 April –BBC Radiophonic Workshop created.
• 2 April –Ralph Vaughan Williams'sSymphony No. 9 is premiered in London by theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted byMalcolm Sargent.
• 10 April – SingerCleo Laine and bandleaderJohn Dankworth marry.
• 19 April – TheMarquee Club first opens in London, as a jazz venue.
• July –Pete Seeger begins performing his new song "The Bells of Rhymney", based on a lyric by Welsh poetIdris Davies.
• c.12 July –The Quarrymen (Paul McCartney,John Lennon (lead vocals),George Harrison,Colin Hanton (drums) andJohn Lowe (piano)) record a single 78 rpm shellac acetate disc atPhillips' Sound Recording Services in Liverpool: "In Spite of All the Danger" (McCartney–Harrison) and a cover ofBuddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day".^[1]
• 28 August –Anton Bruckner'sSymphony No 4 is performed at theProms, the first complete Bruckner symphony to be played at the festival since 1903.
• 29 August – "Move It", the debut record byCliff Richard andthe Drifters, is released on theColumbia label, reaching number 2 on theUK Singles Chart. It is credited with being one of the first authenticrock and roll songs produced outside the United States.^[3]
• 2–9 December –Decca makes the first complete recording ofPeter Grimes, conducted by the composerBenjamin Britten.^[4]

• SeeUK No.1 Hits of 1958

• William Alwyn –Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion, for orchestra
• Malcolm Arnold – Sinfonietta No. 2, for orchestra, Op. 65
• Lennox Berkeley
  • Concerto, for piano and double string orchestra, Op. 46
  • Poems ofW.H. Auden (5), for soprano or tenor and piano, Op. 53
• Ronald Binge – "The Watermill"^[5]
• Arthur Bliss –The Lady of Shalott (ballet)
• Cornelius Cardew – Piano Sonata No. 3
• Daniel Jones –The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata)
• Peter Maxwell Davies –Prolation, for orchestra
• Peter Racine Fricker –A Vision of Judgement (chorus and orchestra)
• Thea Musgrave – String Quartet
• Edmund Rubbra – Violin Concerto
• Ian Parrott – Concerto for English horn (cor anglais) and orchestra
• Humphrey Searle – Symphony No 2
• Michael Tippett – Symphony No 2
• William Walton –Partita for orchestra
• Ralph Vaughan Williams –Symphony No. 9
• Grace Williams –Six Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins for contralto and string sextet

• Benjamin Britten –Noye's Fludde
• Humphrey Searle –The Diary of a Madman^[6]

• Richard Addinsell –A Tale of Two Cities, starringDirk Bogarde andDorothy Tutin.
• John Addison –I Was Monty's Double.
• William Alwyn –A Night to Remember directed byRoy Ward Baker.
• Malcolm Arnold –Dunkirk, starringJohn Mills,Richard Attenborough andBernard Lee.
• James Bernard –Dracula directed byTerence Fisher, starringChristopher Lee andPeter Cushing.
• Buxton Orr –Corridors of Blood, starringBoris Karloff andChristopher Lee.
• Leonard Salzedo –The Revenge of Frankenstein directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing.

• Expresso Bongo, book byWolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music byDavid Heneker andMonty Norman
• Valmouth, bySandy Wilson, based on the novel byRonald Firbank

• The Duke Wore Jeans, starringTommy Steele
• The Golden Disc, starringLee Patterson andTerry Dene^[7]

• 8 January –Steve Garvey, bass guitarist (Buzzcocks)
• 17 January –Andrew Lowe Watson, composer of musical theatre and concert music (d.2021)
• 24 January –Jools Holland, pianist, bandleader and television presenter
• 21 February
  • Jake Burns, punk singer
  • Simon Holt, composer
• 23 February –David Sylvian, vocalist (Japan)
• 24 February –Mike Pickering, keyboardist (M People)
• 1 March –Nik Kershaw, singer-songwriter
• 5 March –Andy Gibb, English-born singer (died1988)
• 8 March –Gary Numan, British singer
• 9 March –Martin Fry, vocalist ofABC
• 18 March –Neil Brand, British writer, pianist and composer
• 11 April –Stuart Adamson (Big Country) (d. 2001)
• 12 April –Will Sergeant, guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen)
• 15 April –Benjamin Zephaniah, writer and musician
• 18 April –Les Pattinson, bassist (Echo & the Bunnymen)
• 25 April –Fish, Scottish singer
• 17 May –Alan Rankine, musician and producer
• 18 May –Toyah Willcox, actress and singer
• 25 May –Paul Weller, singer-songwriter
• 25 May –Howard Goodall, composer of musicals, choral music and music for television
• 11 June –Barry Adamson, singer and bass player
• 14 June –Nick Van Eede, Singer/Songwriter, vocalist (Cutting Crew)
• 29 June –Mark Radcliffe, singer and radio host
• 5 July –Paul Daniel, conductor
• 20 July –Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter (Simple Minds)
• 30 July –Kate Bush, singer and songwriter
• 4 August –Ian Broudie, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds)
• 7 August –Bruce Dickinson, musician
• 13 August –Feargal Sharkey, singer (The Undertones)
• 6 September –Buster Bloodvessel, vocalist (Bad Manners)
• 10 September –Siobhan Fahey, singer
• 21 September –Simon Mayo, radio presenter
• 14 October –Thomas Dolby, musician
• 20 October –Mark King, guitarist and singer
• 27 October –Simon Le Bon, singer (Duran Duran)
• 10 December –Helen DeMacque, singer (Pepsi & Shirlie)
• 19 December –Limahl, singer
• date unknownPatrick Hawes, composer, conductor, organist and pianist.

• 11 January –Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (born1892)
• 2 April –Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (born1892)
• 14 April –Katharine Goodson, pianist (born1872)
• 3 May –Roland Cunningham, Australian-born British singer and actor (born1872)
• 5 August –Joseph Holbrooke, composer (born1878)
• 26 August –Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (born1872)
• 2 September –Betty Humby Beecham, pianist (born1908)
• 24 October –Martin Shaw, composer (born1875)
• 27 October –John Wooldridge, film composer (born1919) (car accident)
• 2 November –Adam Carse, composer (born1878)^{[8][failed verification]}
• 3 November –Harry Revel, musical theatre composer (b.1905)
• 6 November –Francis George Scott, composer (born1880)
• 28 December –Reginald Foresythe, jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born1907)
• date unknown –John Strachan, ballad singer (born1875)

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• 1958 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1958

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