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It is announced by Metallica that bass-player Jason Newsted has chosen to leave the band.
Former Trammps member Jerry Collins is convicted of attempted murder after having been found guilty of bashing his wife's head into a sink and also pistol-whipping her. He is sentenced to a maximum of 35 years.
Mark Knopfler begins his 80-concert Sailing To Philadelphia Tour with the first of two nights at the National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
Tim McGraw releases a new album, Set This Circus Down, on Curb Records in the USA.
Blake Shelton makes his debut on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Texas, USA, where he sings Austin.
Blues-rock singer Top Jimmy, a colourful and inspirational presence on the Los Angeles music scene with his band Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs in the 1980s, dies aged 46 of liver failure in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera, Lil? Kim, Mya and Pink reaches No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart. Lady Marmalade was previously a hit for LaBelle in 1974
Alicia Keys releases her debut album, Songs in A Minor, in the USA. In its first week, it sells over 235,000 copies.
Grown Men Don't Cry by Tim McGraw reaches No1 in the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.
Have A Nice Day by The Stereophonics, recorded at Real World Studios, Box, enters the singles chart, where it will peak at No5.
Songs in A Minor, the debut album by Alicia Keys reaches No1 in the Billboard 200 Albums chart in the USA.
Eminem is granted a visa to perform in Australia, Oceania, despite Australian Prime Minister John Howard declaring, "I find the lyrics of people like that quite sickening." The terms of Eminem's visa require him to, "respect Australia's multi-cultural society and avoid vilifying or inciting discord in the community."Jah Wobble, All About Eve, Mary Coughlan and Country Joe McDonald play at the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK.
Songs in A Minor the debut album by Alicia Keys is certified as a US double platinum disc by the R.I.A.A.
Jim Carroll plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
Aaliyah dies when the plane flying her to Florida crashes on Abaco Island in the Caribbean. On the same day, forty-five audience members are injured in a crowd surge during Eminem's appearance at the On the Green Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. The show is stopped for thirty minutes while police help the injured, and eleven fans are taken to hospital for treatment.
The MV Tampa, carrying over 400 distressed Indonesians, including women and children in various states of health and stress, who had been rescued from a sinking boat, is refused permission to land on the Australian territory of Christmas Island. According to a subsequent poll, 77% of Australians
expressed support for their government's stance. The MV Tampa incident will become a global scandal, and is recorded in the song 77% by Australian band The Herd.
Nightwish come to the end of their Wishmaster World Tour, with a show at Tuiskula, Nivala, Finland, Europe.
The San Francisco Blues festival, a two-day event, concludes at the Great Meadow, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, USA. Artists appearing on this day include Los Lobos, Little Milton with special guest Trudy Lynn, Robben Ford And The Ford Blues Band, The Jimmy Smith Group and Maria Muldaur.Marilyn Manson appears in court in Clarkston, Michigan, facing charges of indecent assault.
Former Spice Girls member Victoria Beckham sacks her manager, Nancy Phillips, accusing the manager of "over-exposing" her and thus, somehow, contributing to the poor sales of her debut solo album.Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Linkin Park and Static X play in The Family Values Tour at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
R.E.M. play a surprise show at the Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, Washington, USA, co-owned by guitarist Peter Buck and his wife. The 'secret' gig is a benefit for the Washington Wilderness Coalition starring The Minus 5, which features Buck and longtime R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder joins R.E.M. for several songs.
Ozzy Osbourne sustains a stress fracture in his leg when he slips in the shower at the first gig of this year's Ozzfest in Tucson, Arizona. It will take more than a week before he has the condition diagnosed, at which point ten subsequent dates will be cancelled.
Harry Connick Jr. plays at The Coronado Theatre, Rockford, near Chicago, Illinois, USA. Valorie Jones of Detroit-based soul-r'n'b trio The Jones
Girls dies aged 45 in Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi perform a tribute to the recently deceased George Harrison of The Beatles, at the My VH1 Music Awards show which is broadcast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA.Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the sixth of eight days in the Sudan, North West Africa, as part of a mission, organised by he humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, to free Southern Sudanese slaves from their Northern masters.
Bianca Butthole, who had found acclaim as the singer and bassist for two hard rock bands, Betty Blowtorch and Butt Trumpet, dies in a car crash after accepting a lift from a drunk driver in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. American tv music mogul Dick Clark files a $10m lawsuit against Grammy Awards President C. Michael Greene|. Clark feels that The Grammy Awards deliberately ignore musicians including Michael Jackson and Britney Spears who have appeared on Clark's American Music Awards just before The Grammies.
Freddie Hansson, who had found success as the pianist and songwriter of the band Noice, dies aged 38 in Gustavsberg, Sweden, Europe, after a life of heavy involvement with drugs and drink.
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