Starr, who had hits with "The Isle of Innisfree", "Feet Up", "Because You're Mine", "Half as Much", and "Comes A-Long A-Love". Number Ones Number-one singles {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:97%; text-align:center;" ! Issue Date !! Song !! Artist |- | 8 November || rowspan="8"|"Here in My Heart" || rowspan="8"|Al Martino |- | 15 November |- | 22 November |- | 29 November |- | 5 December |- | 12 December |- | 19 December |- | 26 December |} Classical music Benjamin Britten – Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac. William Walton – Coronation Te Deum for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Opera Michael Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage (not performed until 1955) Film and Incidental music William Alwyn The Card, starring Alec Guinness. Mandy directed by Alexander Mackendrick, introducing Mandy Miller and starring Jack Hawkins. Malcolm Arnold The Holly and the Ivy, starring Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, and Margaret Leighton. The Sound Barrier directed by David Lean, starring Ralph Richardson. Francis Chagrin – The Happy Family, starring Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison and Naunton Wayne. Brian Easdale – Outcast of the Islands directed by Carol Reed, starring Robert Morley, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson and Wendy Hiller. Benjamin Frankel – The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave. Philip Green – The Yellow Balloon Antony Hopkins – The Pickwick Papers, starring James Hayter. Births 15 January – Melvyn Gale, cellist (Electric Light Orchestra) 4 February – Jerry Shirley, drummer (Humble Pie and Fastway) 17 February – Michael Marra, singer-songwriter (died 2012) 21 February – Jean-Jacques Burnel, bassist The Stranglers 5 March – Alan Clark, keyboard player 19 March – Derek Longmuir, drummer (Bay City Rollers) 9 May – Linda Finnie, Scottish soprano 10 May – Lee Brilleaux, South African-English singer-songwriter (Dr Feelgood) (died 1994) 9 June – Robert Sandall, musician, music journalist and radio presenter (died 2010) 12 June – Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer (died 2018) 14 June – Jim Lea, guitarist (Slade) 3 July – Andy Fraser, singer-songwriter and bass player (Free, Sharks, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers) 16 July – Gary Howard, musician (The Pathfinders) 19 July – Dominic Muldowney, composer 21 August – Joe Strummer, musician (The Clash) (died 2002) 30 August – Simon Bainbridge, composer (died 2021) 9 September – Dave Stewart, record producer (Eurythmics) 26 September – Cilla Fisher, Scottish folk singer-songwriter (The Singing Kettle) 2 October – Raymond Sargent, actor, musician and