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The Rolling Stones entered the top 10 for the first time in 1964, with three singles making the countdown, including the number-one hits "It's All Over Now" and "Little Red Rooster". The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom ...
20 February – Verena Holmes, mechanical engineer and inventor (born 1889) 22 February – Verrier Elwin, anthropologist and missionary (born 1902) [47] 26 February – F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, World War II hero (born 1901) 21 March – Nancy Spain (born 1917) and Joan Werner Laurie (born 1920), journalists, in the crash of a light plane near Aintree
1 January – The first episode of the long-running weekly pop music show Top of the Pops airs on BBC TV. [1] The first programme is produced at the BBC's Dickenson Road Studios in Rusholme, Manchester, presented by Jimmy Savile, and the first two acts featured are Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to Be with You" and The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man".
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Her career has spanned six decades. Her debut single, a cover version of The Isley Brothers song "Shout", reached the top ten of the UK singles chart in 1964.
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
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Ray Mears (born 1964), author, TV presenter and survival expert; Sir Patrick Moore (1923–2012), writer, TV presenter, astronomer; Michael Parkinson (1935–2023), presenter of British television chat show Parkinson; John Peel (1939–2004), disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist; Jonathan Ross (born 1960)
This is a list of artists who have reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company since November 1952. Artists are listed alphabetically. Solo artists are listed by surname and groups are listed by full names excluding "the" or any foreign translations of "the".