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It is announced by Metallica that bass-player Jason Newsted has chosen to leave the band.
David Heneker, composer of musicals including Expresso Bongo, Irma La Douce, Half a Sixpence and Charlie Girl, dies aged 94 in Llwyndyrys, Gwynedd, Wales.
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.Three months after being involved in a vehicle accident, blues vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey dies aged 75 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
While in Cuba to play a live gig, The Manic Street Preachers are invited by President Fidel Castro to be guests of honour at the opening of a new state university, la Escuela de Instructores de Arte Manuel Domenech, at Santa Clara.Pure And Simple, the first single by Hear'Say (a group manufactured from winners of reality tv show Popstars), enters the UK singles chart at No1. The song is a cover of a Girl Thing album track that was released only in Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
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.
Orianne Cevey, third wife of Phil Collins, gives birth to their first son, Nichols.
The various artists tribute album A Nod To Bob is released in the USA. The album includes cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, performed by artists including Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Spider John Koerner And Dave Ray, Suzzy And Maggie Roche, John Gorka, Martin Simpson and The Paperboys.
Westlife begin the Asian leg of their Where Dreams Come True tour with a show at Beirut Hall, Beirut, Lebanon, Asia.Radiohead release their fifth album, Amnesiac, in the UK on Parlophone Records. On the same day, they play at the Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland, Europe.
Madonna's Drowned World tour, her first in eight years, sets off from Palau Saint Jordi Arena, Barcelona, Spain.
Composer, arranger, bandleader and trumpet player Chico O'Farrill dies aged 79 in New York City, USA. He found fame as one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Legendary Latin-jazz composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill, who worked with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, David Bowie and many others, dies aged 79.
Jazz saxophonist and celebrated Blue Note recording artist Joe Henderson dies from emphysema in San Francisco, California, USA.
It is revealed in the UK press that teen pop star Billie Piper has quit the music business to launch a career in acting.
Mariah Carey, on the verge of a breakdown, appears on MTV's TRL in New York City, USA, and begins stripping off her clothes. Within a week she will be in Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, Connecticut, being treated for 'exhaustion'.
Folk singer Jah Wobble, All About Eve, Mary Coughlan and Country Joe McDonald plays at the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival.Radiohead make an animated guest appearance in anarchic tv series South Park, in an episode entitled Scott Tenorman Must Die.
A Bob Dylan Tribute Show takes place as part of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, New York State, USA. Artists performing include John Gorka, Mary Gauthier, The Paperboys, Lucy Kaplansky and Jimmy LaFave. A live album, the Nod To Bob Workshop is recorded during the event.
Jim Carroll plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
When Eric Clapton plays the second of two nights at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, the show is recorded and tracks will be included on Clapton's double-live album, One More Car, One More Rider.
System Of A Down release their new album, Toxicity in the USA on American records. It will debut at No1 in both the US and Canadian charts.
The innovative video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon Of Choice, which features charismatic actor Christopher Walken dancing in a hotel, wins six awards at the MTV Video Music Awards.
A crowd of 49,000 people in Lubbock, Texas, USA, set a new "largest singalong" world record by singing along to the Buddy Holly song, Peggy Sue.
Sonny Rollins plays at Berklee Performance Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The show is recorded and will be released as Without A Song - The 9/11 Concert.The hit single Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue is awarded a UK platinum disc by the BPI.
Marilyn Manson appears in court in Clarkston, Michigan, facing charges of indecent assault.
Singer-songwriter Barb Jungr spends the first of three days at Mark Angel Studios, London, recording her album Every Grain Of Sand : Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan for Linn Records. Every song on the album is written by Dylan.
Singer-songwriter Barb Jungr spends the second of three days at Mark Angel Studios, London, UK, recording her album Every Grain Of Sand : Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan. Every song on the album is written by Bob Dylan.
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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.The tribute album Forever Young: A Tribute To Bob Dylan is released. The album includes cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, performed by folk artists including Fairport Convention, The Albion Band, Show Of Hands and Magna Carta.
P. Diddy [aka Puff Daddy, Sean Combs etc] plays at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sting records an hour-long UK tv special for Top Of The Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, UK, to an audience drawn from his fan club.
In Carlisle, UK, an attack of repetitive strain injury in the left arm of Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt, causes the band to cancel dates in their current tour.
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Garth Brooks releases his ninth album, Scarecrow, which will debut at No1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the USA.
U2's Elevation tour comes to an end at the American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida, USA.
Sting appears in an episode of US tv series Friends, called The One With Monica's Boots.
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.
Bjork becomes the first contemporary music artist to perform live The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England, UK, Europe.
It is reported that chart-topper Gordon Haskell has cancelled his upcoming gig at Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, because he has become too famous to play such a small venue.Jan |