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Blues guitarist T.D. Bell dies aged 76 of heart and kidney failure related to prostate cancer, at the Austin Diagnostic Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
Walk Like A Panther by The All Seeing I featuring Tony Christie enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No10 during a seven-week run.
Wide Open Spaces by The Dixie Chicks is certified as a quadruple-platinum album by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Indie producer Phil Bonnet is found dead of an apparent aneurysm, in his car near his home in the Ukrainian Village, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In a long career, he had worked with The Smoking Popes, The Slugs, Fig Dish, Eleventh Dream Day and New Duncan Imperials.
It is announced that vocalist Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith are re-joining Iron Maiden.
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Blur release a new single, Tender, in the UK on Food Records. It will peak at No2 in the UK singles chart.
Elton John appears as an animated version of himself in I'm With Cupid, an episode of tv series The Simpsons in the USA.
After arriving at the London Arena, Docklands, London, England, UK, Europe, by helicopter, Robbie Williams pulls off a hat-trick at the BRIT Awards, winning the categories for Best British Male Solo Artist, Best British Single (Angels) and Best Video (Millenium). Manic Street Preachers are Best British Group and their album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, is Best British Album. Best British Female is Des’ree, Best British Dance Act is Fatboy Slim, Best International Male is Beck; Best International Group is The Corrs. A pop supergroup including Billie, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*witched and Steps is brought together to sing a tribute to Abba.
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Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant play at the Marine Midland Arena, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Oasis start work on a new album with producer Mark 'Spike' Stent. It will be released in February 2000 as Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants.
R.E.M. appear at the San Remo Music Festival, San Remo, Italy, Europe.
Singer-songwriter David Ackles dies of lung cancer, aged 62, in Tujunga, California, USA. Although he never achieved more than critical acclaim, Elvis Costello, Elton John and Phil Collins all declared themselves to be fans.
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The 8th annual Echo Music Awards are held in the Congress Centre, Hamburg, Germany, Europe. Celine Dion is named Best International Female. R.E.M. play live.
Just Another Suicide by Thunder is released as a single in the U.K. and Japan, Asia. The single is renamed You Wanna Know for the U.K. market as Eagle Records believe that the radio won't play a song with 'suicide' in the title. Ironically, the track picks up more airplay in Japan than it does in the U.K.
On their Psycho Circus tour, Kiss play at Filaforum, Milan, Italy, Europe. The tour features 3-D visual effects in some sections, for which the audience is given special 3-D glasses to enable them to see the effects properly.
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Purple Rain, the sixth album by Prince, is honoured for having achieved sales in excess of 10m, at the inaugural Diamond Awards in The Roseland Ballroom, New York City, USA.
Lillian McMurray, founder of influential early blues label Trumpet Records, dies in Jackson, Mississippi. Her label was first to record both Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Britney Spears signs a deal with Columbia TriStar to star in an upcoming tv show. Her previous experience in the medium includes a stint as a Mickey Mouse Club member on the Disney Channel when she was 11.
Brother John Sellers, gospel/jazz singer and recording artist, dies in New York City, USA, aged 74.
Catatonia play at The Forum, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Coldplay.
The Fall play at the The Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Moby releases his fifth studio album Play on V2 Records.
The 44th Annual Ivor Novello Awards ceremony takes place at the Grosvenor House Hotell, London. The team of Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers is named Songwriters of the Year. Robbie Williams' hit single, Angels, is Most Performed Work.
Jazz crooner Mel Torme, known as the Velvet Fog, dies of a stroke in Los Angeles, California, USA, aged 73.
Phil Collins receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Glen Hansard plays at Gunther Murphy's, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Calyso singing star Roaring Lion dies aged 91 in Mount Lambert, Trinidad, after a long period of failing health.
Kevin Wilkinson, an acclaimed drummer who had worked with The Waterboys, China Crisis, Squeeze and many others, commits suicide by hanging himself at his home in Baydon, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. Wilkinson's death will inspire Howard Jones, who worked with him for some while, to write the song You Knew Us So Well.
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70's teen heart-throb Leif Garrett, in Los Angeles Municipal Court, Los Angeles, California, USA, on heroin and cocaine possession charges, is ordered to undergo a "diversion program", or face a jail sentence.
Tom Waits plays at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is arrested on charges of having incited a riot during an October 1997 concert in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Former Ozark Mountain Daredevils' member Stephen Canaday dies when the vintage aeroplane in which he is riding crashes into a vacant house in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
John Mellencamp plays at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Family Values Tour, featuring Korn, Limp Bizkit, Staind and others plays at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play the first-ever music concert at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
When Beth Orton plays at The Octagon, Sheffield, UK, she is supported by Liverpool band Shack.
When Beth Orton plays at The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, UK, she is supported by Liverpool band Shack.
When Beth Orton plays at Colston Hall, Bristol, England, UK, Europe, she is supported by Liverpool band Shack.
Onstage at The Adams Mark Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA, singer Kenny Rogers flips a frisbee into the crowd. Soon after, audience member Kevin O'Toole sues Rogers, claiming that the frisbee caused a chandelier to fall on him and render him impotent.
A new nightclub, Fabric opens in Islington, London, England, UK. It will become a popular and influential dance-music venue.
The Who play the second of two nights at The House Of Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eric Clapton And His Band play at Osaka-Jo Hall, Osaka, Japan.
On their 13 tour, Blur play at Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America.
Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is found floating in an inner tube off the coast of Florida, USA. A small boat in which he had been fleeing Cuba for asylum in the USA had sunk, killing his mother, Elizabeth Broton, and five others. Elian's story will inspire Manic Street Preachers to write their song Baby Elian.
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, the 20th LP by Prince, reaches No42 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart in the USA.
Thunder finish their farewell U.K. tour with a gig at The Forum in London, England, UK.
Wax models of The Spice Girls are unveiled at Madame Tussauds waxworks in London, UK.
A poll among readers of UK Guitar magazine finds Noel Gallagher of Oasis to be the most overrated guitarist of the millennium.
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