1999 in music
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See also: 1998 in music, other events of 1999, 2000 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music'
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Events
- January 7 - After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.
- January 7 - Paul McCartney attends the premiere of his step-daughter, Heather's, first housewares collection in Georgia.
- January 11 - During the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is awarded the Special Award of Merit for his "inspired songwriting skills" and "exciting showmanship."
- February 14 - Elton John appears as himself in a special Valentine's Day episode of the animated series The Simpsons
- February 15 - "Rolling Stones Day" is declared in Minnesota by Governor (and former Rolling Stones bodyguard) Jesse Ventura
- Rapper Big L is killed in Harlem.
- February 19 - Marilyn Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency.
- February 20 - Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctors orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance.
- February 25 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads.
- March 1 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents
- March 2 - The House Of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob Dylan performs a concert at the club and is joined by U2's lead singer Bono for an encore of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door".
- March 5 - Trauma Entertainment files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failing to deliver a new album.
- March 6 - A 67 year old George Jones is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way home. Jones' Lexus crashes into a bridge at about 1:30 p.m. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident.
- March 15 - Marilyn Manson is injured when he slips and falls during a concert at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Manson's performance is cut short.
- March 21 Irish girl band B*Witched score their fourth consecutive #1 with Blame It On The Weatherman on the UK singles chart. They become the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top simultaneously and set a new record. It's a broken a year later by fellow Irish pals Westlife.
- March 28 - Lost Boyz member Freaky Tah is fatally shot in New York as he is leaving his hotel.
- April 10 - A charity tribute concert for Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, features performances by Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised at the event went to animal rights causes.
- April 19 - Neil Young performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Due to a mistake by a Madison Square Garden staff member, the marquee read "Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm". Young jokingly introduced one of his guitar players as Bob Dylan during the show.
- April 20 - Billy Joel performs at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Joel announces that this would be his last public pop music concert. Joel also announces plans on devoting his future efforts to classical music.
- April 28 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- April 30 - Columbine High School massacre: Aerosmith visits Columbine High School shooting victim Lance Kirklin in a Colorado hospital before a concert in Denver, Colorado. Kirklin was one of 28 wounded in the April 20 shooting, 13 others were killed.
- May 1 - "The Paintings of Paul McCartney" exhibit opens at the Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany. The exhibit features around 70 paintings created by the former Beatle.
- 27–29 August - The third Terrastock festival is held in London.
- December 14 - BMI announces the most played songs on American radio and television in the 20th century. [1] (http://www.bmi.com/news/199912/1999121488.asp) (full list (http://www.bmi.com/awards/1999/top100.asp))
- December 29 - Former Beatle George Harrison is stabbed several times in the chest by an unknown assailant, who had broke into Harrison's home. Harrison's wife wrestled the knife out the assailant's hand before the police arrived. The man apparently believed that Harrison was the devil.
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Albums released
- Soundsystem - 311
- Premiers Symptomes - Air
- Nothing Safe: Best of the Box - Alice in Chains
- All Systems Go! - All Systems Go!
- Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits - The Ataris
- Millennium - Backstreet Boys
- Midnite Vultures - Beck
- Who Else! - Jeff Beck
- Synchronistic Wanderings - Recorded Anthology (1979 to 1999) - Pat Benatar
- By Your Side - The Black Crowes
- 13 - Blur
- Bloodthirst - Cannibal Corpse
- Hatebreeder - Children of Bodom
- The Fragile Art of Existence - Control Denied
- Euphoria Morning - Chris Cornell
- Astronimica - Crimson Glory
- Don't Mind If I Do - Culture Club
- Manifesto for Futurism - Dali's Dilemma
- Euphoria - Def Leppard
- Scream for Me Brazil - Bruce Dickinson
- Spiritual Black Dimensions - Dimmu Borgir
- Fly - Dixie Chicks
- Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
- And Then There Was X - DMX
- Dr. Dre 2001 - Dr. Dre
- Theater of Salvation - Edguy
- The Slim Shady LP - Eminem
- IX Equilibrium - Emperor
- Velocity Overshoot - The Endless Revisions
- The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
- There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters
- Powerplant - Gamma Ray
- Further - Gridlock
- Alive in Athens - Iced Earth
- Colony - In Flames
- Vol. 3: Life And Times of S. Carter - Jay-Z
- Stop Staring At Me! - Jerky Boys
- J-Tull Dot Com - Jethro Tull
- Issues - Korn
- Forget About It - Alison Krauss
- In a Reverie - Lacuna Coil
- Significant Other - Limp Bizkit
- My First Album - Lolly
- 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
- Shapeshifter - Marcy Playground
- I Am... - Nas
- Nastradamus - Nas
- The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails (double album)
- Born Again - Notorious B.I.G.
- Still Life - Opeth
- Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
- Risk - Megadeth
- Mo' Money, Mo' 40z - Mest
- Dark Side of the Spoon - Ministry
- Showbiz - Muse (band)
- Dreaming Neon Black - Nevermore
- The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
- Forever - P. Diddy
- Straight Ahead - Pennywise
- Honey to the B - Billie Piper
- Live Aus Berlin - Rammstein
- Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Devil without a Cause - Kid Rock
- Anatomy - Stan Ridgway
- Supernatural - Santana
- Sixpence None The Richer - Sixpence None The Richer
- The Hot Rock - Sleater-Kinney
- Between the Bridges - Sloan
- 4 Nights at the Palais Royale - Sloan
- ...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
- No. 4 - Stone Temple Pilots
- 14:59 - Sugar Ray
- The Gathering - Testament
- Live - They Might Be Giants
- Long Tall Weekend - They Might Be Giants
- Fanmail - TLC
- X-Ray Sierra - Tom Cochrane
- Echo - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- Beyond the Veil - Tristania
- Greatest Hits - 2Pac
- Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
- Resurrection - Vice Squad
- Thug Ride - White Dawg
- The White Stripes - The White Stripes
- XXX - ZZ Top
- The Slim Shady LP - Eminem
- Affirmation - Savage Garden
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Top hits
- "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None The Richer
- "Believe" - Cher
- "Smooth" - Santana featuring Rob Thomas
- "Freak On A Leash" - Korn
- "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega
- "Free" - Dana International
- "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera
- "Livin' La Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin
- "New" - No Doubt
- "The Kid's Aren't Alright" - The Offspring
- "She's Got Issues" - The Offspring
- "Why Don't You Get A Job?" - The Offspring
- "Blue Monday" - Orgy
- "All Star" - Smash Mouth
- "Angel" - Sarah McLachlan
- "That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain
- "...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears
- "I Need To Know" - Marc Anthony
- "Strangers Like Me" - Phil Collins
- "Take me to your heaven" - Charllote Nillsen
- "You'll Be In My Heart" - Phil Collins
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1999
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Top 10 selling albums of the year
- Backstreet Boys - Millennium
- Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
- Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
- Shania Twain - Come on Over
- Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
- Santana - Supernatural
- TLC - FanMail
- Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause
- Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
- Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
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Classical music
- Michael Daugherty - Hell's Angels
- Patrick Hawes - The Call (song cycle)
- Joe Jackson - Symphony No. 1
- Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
- John Kinsella - Symphony No. 8: Into the New Millennium
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Opera
- William Bolcom - A View from the Bridge
- John Harbison - The Great Gatsby
- Anthony Snyder - Sodomy
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Musical theater
- Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin) - Broadway revival
- Fame - The Musical London production
- Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) - Broadway revival
- Mamma Mia! (ABBA) - London production
- My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) - London revival
- Saturday Night Fever Broadway production
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Births
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Deaths
- January 2 - Rolf Liebermann (88), composer
- February 12 - Toni Fisher (67), singer
- February 9 - Big L (24), rapper, gunshot
- March 3 - Dusty Springfield (59), British singer, breast cancer
- March 4 - Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor
- March 12 - Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director
- March 13 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian opera singer
- March 26 - Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer, cardiac arrest
- March 28 - Freaky Tah (28), Lost Boyz, gunshot
- April 6 - Red Norvo, jazz musician
- April 14 - Anthony Newley (67), English songwriter, actor and singer
- April 16 - Skip Spence (52), Jefferson Airplane, lung cancer
- April 27 - Al Hirt, New Orleans trumpeter
- April 30 - Darrell Sweet, Nazareth, heart attack
- May 26 - Paul Sacher, conductor
- June 5 - Mel Torme, (73), U.S. singer
- July 6 - Benny Bell, (93), US musician
- September 10 - Alfredo Kraus (72 or 73?), opera singer,
- October 6 - Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer
- October 10 - Robert Wright, US songwriter and librettist
- October 16 - Ella Mae Morse, (75), US singer
- October 19 - Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter
- October 26 - Rex Gildo (63), German singer
- November 18 - Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician
- July 15 - Tanner Cofield (52), rapper and child pornography kingpin
- December 10 - Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band
- December 26 - Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer
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Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen and The Staple Singers
- Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include The Fairfield Four and Second Chapter of Acts
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Grammy Awards
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Country Music Association Awards
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Eurovision Song Contest
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Mercury Music Prize
- OK - Talvin Singh wins.
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Charts
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KROQ
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