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Santana plays at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Beck's album Midnight Vultures is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
A VH1 channel poll of 700 music industry experts selects Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone as the fourth greatest rock song of all time.
During a hearing about crack cocaine possession charges at a Criminal Court in Queens, New York, USA, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard makes lewd comments to a female district attorney, asking her if she thinks he is ‘horny’. He also ignores Judge Charles Heffernan and nods off to sleep at one point during the proceedings.Matt Goss, formerly of UK hit-making duo Bros, makes his American stage debut at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, in the benefit concert, Sounds Of A Better World, Small Voices Calling, a charity event for children.
Sarah McLachlan, singer-songwriter and founder of the internationally successful all-female Lilith Fair Tours, is awarded The Order of Canada.
Faith Hill performs the US National anthem before Super Bowl XXXIV (St. Louis Rams vs Tennessee Titans) at Atlanta's Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Cowboy Take Me Away by The Dixie Chicks reaches No1 in the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.
Liam Gallagher of Oasis turns down the invitation to a boxing contest against Robbie Williams on the grounds that, "It's not what rock'n'roll is about. It's all got very childish and pathetic and I'll just let our music do the talking. A boxing match would be illegal to start off with. I'm not having anything to do with it."
Acclaimed British jazz singer and recording artist Cab Kaye dies in Amsterdam, Holland, Europe. Kaye rose to some prominence in the 1950s, working with the Ted Heath Orchestra and Humphrey Lyttelton. His son, Caleb Quaye played guitar for Elton John.
Glasgow-based Cosmic Rough Riders release their second album, Panorama, on their own label, Raft Records in the UK.
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Junior's Place, a celebrated juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA, burns to the ground. Jumior's had been opened (and run for many years) by blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Junior Kimborough. It attracted blues fans and musicians from all over the world, including members of U2, The Rolling Stones and The Black Keys.
Tonight's edition of animated tv series South Park, entitled Timmy 2000, guest stars Phil Collins, who is seen throughout the show clutching his 1999 Academy Award for the song You'll Be In My Heart.The third George Strait stadium festival tour is the first concert held at Adelphia Coliseum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The show also features Tim McGraw, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, Mark Chesnutt, Asleep At The Wheel and Billy Gilman.
On the BBC 1 tv show Question Time Boy George challenges Britain's shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Angela Browning, and Stagecoach tycoon Brian Souter about their support for the retention of the contentious anti-homosexual Section 28 legislation.
Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney are arrested in Buffalo, New York State, USA, following a backstage skirmish at Ralph Wilson Stadium on the George Strait tour in which Chesney takes a ride on a policeman's horse, and McGraw gets in a fight with cops. They will subsequently be acquitted.
Former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts is arrested after destroying the living room of his Osprey, Florida, USA, home, and threatening his wife. He is later sent for psychiatric examination. The Offspring and Napster enter into a deal whereby Napster will manufacture and sell Offspring t-shirts and the profits will go to charity.
Try Again by Aaliyah, from the soundtrack of the film Romeo Must Die, reaches No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart, purely on the basis of airplay, making it the first song in history to reach the top slot without a commercial release. On the same day, UK teen pop star Billie Piper collapses in Bar 38, Covent Garden, London, and is rushed to hospital. The incident is explained as arising from a kidney infection.
B.B. King opens his new B.B. King blues club in Times Square, New York City, USA.
On her Twenty Four Seven Tour, Tina Turner plays at The Song Festival Grounds, Tallinn, Estonia, Europe.
Jack Nitzsche, legendary songwriter, arranger and producer, dies aged 63 at Queen Of Angels Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA, of cardiac arrest, caused by a recurring bronchial infection.
On the eve of a UK tour, Bob Dylan performs a warm-up show at Vicar Street, a club in Dublin, Ireland, Europe, for an audience of 800. Tickets sell out in 55 seconds.Willie Nelson presents Farm Aid XV in Bristow, Virginia, USA, with a line-up including Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson and Sawyer Brown. Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore, plays drums during Nelson's set.
Internationally successful virtuoso guitarist, songwriter and recording artist Baden Powell dies of septicaemia, aggravated by alcoholism and diabetes, in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, South America.
UK tabloid The Daily Mirror reports that Liam Gallagher of Oasis proposed to Nicole Appleton of All Saints within hours of his breakup from Patsy Kensit being made public. Jazz pianist Patricia Barber releases a new album, Nightclub, on Blue Note records in the UK.
Bob Dylan's latest single, Love Sick, enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No64 during a one-week run.
Blur release a new single, Music Is My Radar, on Food Records in the UK. It will peak at No10 in the UK singles chart.
A report in tabloid newspaper the News Of The World states that Paul Weller has been released without charge after being questioned over an alleged incident of rape, said to have taken place in Farnham, Surrey, five years earlier.
Wu Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard escapes from a rehabilitation facility in Impact House, Pasadena, California, while being transported to the local court.
Sir Elton John gives evidence at the start of a High Court case in London, England, UK, in which the singer-songwriter is suing Andrew Haydon, of his former management company John Reid Enterprises, and the City accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which looked after his business interests.
Mick Hucknall of Simply Red is among the guests at the wedding of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas on the Terrace Foyer in The Plaza Hotel, New York City, USA.
Sting becomes embroiled in a dispute with RAF Boscombe Down when he claims that noise from planes flying over his Wiltshire estate in England, UK, breaches the Human Rights Act.
Stevie Wonder plays in his fifth annual Stevie Wonder House Full of Toys benefit show at the E2 nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In New York City, USA, Bob Dylan records his version of the Dean Martin hit Return To Me, for use in the tv series The Sopranos.In New York City, USA, Bob Dylan records his version of the Dean Martin hit Return To Me, for use in the tv series The Sopranos.
Milt Hinton, aka 'the bassist of the stars' dies aged 90 in Queens, New York City, USA. Hinton played with Cab Calloway, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong before memorably contributing the bass licks for the hit version of Mack The Knife by Bobby Darin.Internationally famed musical humourist Victor Borge, aged 91, dies peacefully in his sleep, in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
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