Events in Music
- Apr 11 Frank Sinatra records "Strangers in the Night" single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts
- May 6 The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the US
- Jul 23 Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers In The Night" hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
- Aug 5 The Beatles release single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" in the UK
- Sep 16 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra" by Samuel Barber
- Oct 13 Jimi Hendrix Experience debuts with American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, British bassist Noel Redding & British drummer Mitch Mitchell in Évreux, Normandy, France
- Dec 26 Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London
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Music Awards in 1966
- Mar 5 11th Eurovision Song Contest: Udo Jurgens for Austria wins singing "Merci, Cherie" in Luxembourg
- Mar 15 8th Grammy Awards: "Taste of Honey", Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra & Barbra Streisand win
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Sinead O'ConnorMusicians Married in 1966
- Jan 21 Quiet Beatle George Harrison (22) weds British model Pattie Boyd (21); divorce in 1977
- Feb 10 Reggae Musician Bob Marley (21) marries fellow musician Rita Anderson (19)
- Mar 17 The Who drummer Keith Moon (19) weds model Kim Kerrigan (18) at Brent Registry Office
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Musicians Who Died in 1966
- Jan 4 Marcel Tabuteau, French-American oboist (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1915-54), dies at 78
- Jan 9 Haro Levoni Step'anian, Armenian composer, dies at 68
- Jan 29 Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38
- Feb 6 Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist, and composer, dies at 79
- Feb 9 Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russian-born American singer and actress (My Yiddish Mama) known as "last of the red hot mammas", dies at 79
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