1997 in music
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[edit] Events
- January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, with the opening act Placebo. Proceeds from the concert went to the Save The Children fund.
- January 10 - James Brown receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- January 19 - Madonna wins Best Actress In A Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy in Evita at the 54th annual Golden Globe Awards. Madonna later wins the American Moviegoer Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Evita.
- January 20 - Ben and Jerry's introduce "Phish food", a new flavor of ice cream named after the rock group Phish. The ingredients are chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, caramel and fish-shaped fudge
- February 2 - Rich Mullins' musical The Canticle of the Plains premieres in Wichita, Kansas.
- February 10 - 52 year old Brian Connolly of Sweet dies of kidney failure in England.
- February 12 - David Bowie receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- February 13 - Michael Jackson's first son is born.
- March - Pianist David Helfgott appears at the Boston Symphony Hall during his world tour. The Boston Globe describes his performance as "without phrasing, form, harmonic understanding, differentiation of style and often basic accuracy; worst of all, it was without emotional content."
- March 1
- The rock band Phish records Slip Stitch and Pass live at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
- Northern Ireland band Ash release the single Barbie.
- March 3 - U2 release the opinion-dividing Pop album. Along with the Oasis album Be Here Now, it becomes a major release that fails to sell to industry expectations, particularly in the US, despite many strong initial reviews.
- March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G. is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a car after a Soul Train Awards party
- March 11 - Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- March 17 - Whirlwind Heat play their first show.
- Alice Cooper releases his first live album in twenty years.
- April 2 - Joni Mitchell is reunited with the daughter that she gave up for adoption 32 years ago, Kilauren Gibb.
- 25–27 April - The first Terrastock festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island
- May - 5ive's musical career begin after auditions are held in London with over 3,000 hopefuls showing up to audition.
- May 20 - The Foo Fighters release their second album, The Colour and the Shape, solidifying the fact that the Foo Fighters were not a one off project for Dave Grohl after the dissolution of Nirvana. The Colour and the Shape is often considered the band's best album. It is their best selling album. Since this album, the Foo Fighters have won 4 Grammys.
- June 16 - Radiohead's seminal album OK Computer is released in the United Kingdom.
- July 1 - The Prodigy releases The Fat of the Land album. Also Limp Bizkit release their debut album Three Dollar Bill Y'all.
- August 4 - Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer and dissident pop star Fela Anikulapo-Kuti dies in Lagos of HIV-related illness.
- August 7 - Garth Brooks performs to an estimated 800,000 to 1 million people during a free concert given in New York City's Central Park.
- August 21 Oasis' eagerly awaited 3rd album, Be Here Now, was released. It set a record as it became the fastest selling album of all time, moving 695,761 copies in the first week.
- August 3 - The Black Crowes perform their last show with Johnny Colt and Marc Ford, ending what is considered their "classic" lineup.
- August 16-17 - Phish perform two day music festival, The Great Went, in Limestone, Maine at Loring Air Force Base. 500 minutes of music, 6 sets, 2 encores. There was an estimated attendance that falls anywhere between 65,000-70,000 and was the top grossing concert of the summer by pulling in over $4,000,000.
- September 6 - Elton John performs "Candle In The Wind" at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; John Tavener's Song for Athene is performed at the same ceremony.
- September 17 - The KLF return for 23 minutes with their performance of "Fuck the Millennium".
- September 19 - While on his way to a benefit concert in Kansas, Rich Mullins loses control of his jeep, flipping the automobile and throwing both Mullins and passenger Mitch McVicker out onto the road. A tractor-trailer approaching the scene swerves to miss McVicker, striking and killing Mullins instantly. McVicker survives, but suffered major injuries.
- September 23
- Björk releases her critically-acclaimed album Homogenic, marking a shift in musical direction.
- Dream Theater releases their fourth full length album Falling Into Infinity.
- October 13 - "Prince Igor" single, jointly performed by The Rhapsody, Warren G and Sissel Kyrkjebø was released.
- November 22- INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence is found dead in his hotel room in Sydney, Australia. He is 37 years old.
- December 31 - "The home of Country Music", the Opryland USA theme park, in Nashville, Tennessee closes and is subsequently demolished.
- After more than a year absence Garth Brooks returns to the top of the charts with his album "Sevens".
- Nigel Kennedy returns to performing in public after a 5-year absence resulting from neck surgery, now calling himself simply "Kennedy".
- The reunited Fleetwood Mac release The Dance and begin a highly successful concert tour in the United States.
- The reunited Monkees perform 2 sold out concerts at Wembley Arena in London.
- The companies Memorex, Maxell, and TDK introduce Blank recordable CDs
- Rob Gommerman leaves Finger Eleven due to extensive touring.
- Derrick Green replaces Max Cavalera in Sepultura.
[edit] Bands formed
- The Appleseed Cast
- The Black Heart Procession
- The Blood Brothers
- Calla
- The Casket Lottery
- Coldplay
- Crazy Ken Band
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Demons & Wizards
- Dir en grey
- Dollshead
- Eisley
- Elvenking
- Finntroll
- Five
- Flogging Molly
- Gym Class Heroes
- Isis
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Lostprophets
- m-flo
- Mates of State
- Muse
- Peter Pan Speedrock
- Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
- Queens of the Stone Age
- The Rocket Summer
- Rocket Transfer Warehouse
- The Shins
- Small Mercies
- Sorry About Dresden
- Three Days Grace
- Twiztid
- Umphrey's Mcgee
- The White Stripes
[edit] Bands disbanded
- Acid Bath
- Atomic Swing
- Brainiac
- Christie Front Drive
- The Clouds
- Cocteau Twins
- Commander Venus
- Def FX
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Failure
- Gin Blossoms
- Glue Gun
- The Monkees
- Porno for Pyros
- The Sundays
- Pungent Stench
- Soundgarden
- Swans
- Tad
- Throwing Muses
- Ugly Kid Joe
- White Zombie
- X Japan
[edit] Bands reformed
- Sunny Day Real Estate (hiatus in 1995)
- Depeche Mode (hiatus in 1995)
- Black Sabbath (hiatus in 1994)
[edit] Albums released
| Contents: | Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December |
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[edit] January
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six of Hearts | Kenny G | EP |
| 7 | Enjoy Incubus | Incubus | EP |
| 10 | The Best and the Rest | Savatage | Compilation |
| The Donnas | The Donnas | Superteem; Re-issued in '98 on Lookout! | |
| 13 | Glow | Reef | |
| 14 | Live Stages | Vertical Horizon | Live |
| Telegram | Björk | Remix | |
| Travelling Without Moving | Jamiroquai | US; released in UK Sept '96 | |
| 20 | Homework | Daft Punk | UK |
| 21 | Slick Shoes EP | Slick Shoes | EP |
| Soft Effects | Spoon | EP | |
| 23 | Clumsy | Our Lady Peace | Canada |
| 27 | C'est pour vivre | Celine Dion | Compilation |
| Perfect from Now On | Built to Spill | - | |
| 28 | In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy | Pat Boone | Covers CD |
| Lie to Me | Jonny Lang | - | |
| Uptown Saturday Night | Camp Lo | - | |
| Vivir | Enrique Iglesias | - | |
| 30 | Earthling | David Bowie | - |
[edit] February
[edit] March
[edit] April
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation | Zao | - |
| Tripping the Light Fantastic | Lit | - | |
| 2 | Clumsy | Our Lady Peace | US |
| 4 | Elegantly Wasted | INXS | - |
| 7 | Barafundle | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | - |
| Dig Your Own Hole | The Chemical Brothers | - | |
| 8 | Dig Me Out | Sleater-Kinney | - |
| Have I Offended Someone? | Frank Zappa | Compilation | |
| Third Eye Blind | Third Eye Blind | - | |
| Whole | Pedro the Lion | EP | |
| 14 | Mother Nature Calls | Cast | - |
| 15 | 28 Teeth | Buck-O-Nine | - |
| Savage Garden | Savage Garden | US | |
| Sevendust | Sevendust | - | |
| Shadowlife | Dokken | - | |
| Ultra | Depeche Mode | - | |
| 21 | In It for the Money | Supergrass | - |
| 22 | Back from the Dead | Obituary | - |
| Cowboy | Erasure | - | |
| Full Circle | Pennywise | - | |
| Greatest Hits | Boston | Greatest Hits | |
| I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | Yo La Tengo | - | |
| Share My World | Mary J. Blige | - | |
| 23 | Visions | Stratovarius | - |
| 29 | Anywhere But Here | The Ataris | - |
| Kill Fuck Die | W.A.S.P. | - | |
| Picnic | Robert Earl Keen | - | |
| Shaming of the Sun | Indigo Girls | - | |
| 30 | In The Mood | Heaven's Gate | EP |
[edit] May
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Baile de Los Locos | Voodoo Glow Skulls | - |
| Flaming Pie | Paul McCartney | - | |
| Honky | Melvins | - | |
| 6 | Middle of Nowhere | Hanson | - |
| Retrospective I | Rush | Compilation | |
| Return to Paradise | Styx | Live | |
| 12 | Halim | Natacha Atlas | - |
| 13 | Quality Soft Core | Mad Caddies | - |
| Terror & Magnificence | Elvis Costello and John Harle | - | |
| 18 | Polythene | Feeder | - |
| 20 | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix | Michael Jackson | Remix |
| For Monkeys | Millencolin | US | |
| I Got Next | KRS-One | - | |
| Mag Earwhig! | Guided by Voices | - | |
| Marching to Mars | Sammy Hagar | - | |
| Oxygene 7-13 | Jean Michel Jarre | - | |
| Red Apple Falls | Smog | - | |
| Remanufacture | Fear Factory | Remix | |
| Standing in My Shoes | Leo Kottke | - | |
| The Colour and the Shape | Foo Fighters | - | |
| You're the Inspiration: A Collection | Peter Cetera | Compilation | |
| 26 | Direction Reaction Creation | The Jam | Compilation |
| 27 | Get Some | Snot | - |
| 30 | Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | Dimmu Borgir | - |
[edit] June
[edit] July
[edit] August
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Transistor | 311 | - |
| 11 | Backstreet's Back | Backstreet Boys | Not released in US |
| 12 | A Deeper Kind of Slumber | Tiamat | - |
| Backstreet Boys (US) | Backstreet Boys | US only | |
| Double Plaidinum | Lagwagon | - | |
| (həd) p.e. | (həd) p.e. | - | |
| No Holds Barred | Biohazard | - | |
| Release Some Tension | SWV | - | |
| Spoke | Calexico | - | |
| 14 | F♯A♯∞ | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | - |
| 19 | The Dance | Fleetwood Mac | Live |
| Transmission | The Tea Party | - | |
| 21 | Be Here Now | Oasis | - |
| 22 | Sehnsucht | Rammstein | - |
| 24 | Midnite Lover | Shaggy | - |
| 25 | Bad Timing | Jim O'Rourke | - |
| Word Gets Around | Stereophonics | - | |
| 26 | All That I Am | Joe | - |
| I Like to Score | Moby | Compilation | |
| Conspiracy No. 5 | Third Day | - | |
| Last of the Sharpshooters | Down by Law | - | |
| Likwidation | Tha Alkaholiks | - | |
| Love Scenes | Diana Krall | - | |
| Making Friends | No Use for a Name | - | |
| Singles 1-12 | Melvins | Compilation | |
| (Songbook) A Collection of Hits | Trisha Yearwood | Compilation | |
| The First Session | Hole | EP | |
| Welcome to the Freak Show | dc Talk | Live | |
| 30 | Somewhere Out in Space | Gamma Ray | - |
[edit] September
[edit] October
[edit] November
[edit] December
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23am | Robert Miles | Europe |
| Aaron Carter | Aaron Carter | Europe | |
| Six | Loverboy | - | |
| 9 | MTV Unplugged | Bryan Adams | Live |
| 16 | Riverfenix | Riverfenix | - |
| 20 | It's All About the Girls | A New Found Glory | EP |
| 23 | Blindside | Blindside | - |
| ? | The Slim Shady EP | Eminem | EP |
[edit] Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1997.
| # | Artist | Title | Year | Country | Chart Entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puff Daddy & Faith Evans | I'll Be Missing You | 1997 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg | UK 1 - Jun 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Jun 1997, Sweden 1 - Aug 1997, Austria 1 - Jul 1997, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1997, Norway 1 - Jul 1997, Italy 1 of 1997, Germany 1 - Jun 1997, Eire 1 - Jul 1997, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1997, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Oct 1997, Poland 5 - Jul 1997, Australia 5 of 1997, Germany 12 of the 1990s, POP 16 of 1997, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1997, Europe 50 of the 1990s, RYM 99 of 1997 |
| 2 | Elton John | Candle in the Wind '97 | 1997 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | UK 1 - Sep 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Sep 1997, Austria 1 - Oct 1997, Switzerland 1 - Sep 1997, Norway 1 - Jan 1997, Poland 1 - Sep 1997, Germany 1 - Jan 1998, Eire 1 - Sep 1997, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Oct 1997, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Dec 1997, Global 2 (35 M sold) - 1997, Australia 4 of 1997, Japan 11 of all time (international songs), Italy 12 of 1997, TOTP 33, Germany 37 of the 1990s, RYM 85 of 1997, OzNet 433 |
| 3 | Aqua | Barbie Girl | 1997 | Image:Flag of Denmark.svg | UK 1 - Oct 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Sep 1997, Sweden 1 - Sep 1997, Switzerland 1 - Oct 1997, Norway 1 - May 1997, Germany 1 - Jan 1998, Eire 1 - Oct 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Sep 1997, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jan 1998, POP 1 of 1997, Italy 2 of 1997, Austria 3 - Oct 1997, France 6 - May 1997, US BB 7 of 1997, Australia 8 of 1997, Germany 36 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 53 of happy |
| 4 | No Doubt | Don't Speak | 1997 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg | UK 1 - Feb 1997, Holland 1 - Dec 1996, Sweden 1 - Nov 1996, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1997, Norway 1 - Dec 1996, Poland 1 - Jan 1997, Eire 1 - Feb 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Jan 1997, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Apr 1997, Austria 2 - Feb 1997, Germany 2 - Jan 1997, Australia 7 of 1997, France 10 - Feb 1997, RYM 10 of 1996, Europe 22 of the 1990s, POP 38 of 1996, Scrobulate 44 of rock, Italy 76 of 1997, Germany 77 of the 1990s, Acclaimed 1098 |
| 5 | Hanson | Mmmbop | 1997 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg | UK 1 - Jun 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Sweden 1 - May 1997, Austria 1 - Jun 1997, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1997, Eire 1 - Jun 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Jun 1997, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Aug 1997, Holland 2 - May 1997, Norway 2 - Jun 1997, Australia 2 of 1997, Germany 2 - Jun 1997, Poland 9 - Jun 1997, US BB 17 of 1997, POP 18 of 1997, Scrobulate 69 of fun, RYM 81 of 1996, Germany 187 of the 1990s, Acclaimed 516 |
[edit] Top hits
- "Abuse Me" - Silverchair
- "All By Myself" - Céline Dion
- "All I Want" - The Offspring
- "As Long As You Love Me" - Backstreet Boys
- "Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
- "Block Rockin' Beats" - The Chemical Brothers
- "Breathe" - The Prodigy
- "Dammit (Growing Up)" - Blink-182
- "Don't Speak" - No Doubt
- "D'You Know What I Mean" - Oasis
- "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
- "Eye" - The Smashing Pumpkins
- "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" - Aerosmith
- "Firestarter" - The Prodigy
- "Foolish Games" - Jewel
- "Da Funk" - Daft Punk
- "Honey" - Mariah Carey
- "I'll Be Missing You" - Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans
- "The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- "It's No Good" - Depeche Mode
- "Karma Police" - Radiohead
- "Lakini's Juice" - Live
- "MMMBop" - Hanson
- "Monkey Wrench" - Foo Fighters
- "My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion
- "Mo Money Mo Problems - The Notorious B.I.G
- "Paranoid Android" - Radiohead
- "Pink" - Aerosmith
- "Push" - Matchbox Twenty
- "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" - Busta Rhymes
- "Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)" - Backstreet Boys
- "Say You'll Be There" - Spice Girls
- "Sell Out" - Reel Big Fish
- "Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind
- "6 Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
- "Smack My Bitch Up" - The Prodigy
- "3 A.M. " - Matchbox Twenty
- "Time to Say Goodbye" - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
- "Tubthumping" - Chumbawumba
- "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
- "You Were Meant for Me" - Jewel
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1997
[edit] Classical music
- Leonardo Balada - Concierto Magico for Guitar and Orchestra
- Silvie Bodorova - Terezin Ghetto Requiem
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- Andrew Glover- The Fickle Virgin of Seventeen Summers: A Quartet for Strings
[edit] Opera
- Robert Ashley - Balseros
- Mark Blitzstein - Regina
- Michael Daugherty - Jackie O
- Daron Hagen - Vera of Las Vegas
- Peter Lieberson - Ashoka's Dream
[edit] Musical theater
- 1776, Broadway revival
- Annie, Broadway revival
- Candide (Leonard Bernstein), Broadway revival
- Life, Broadway production
- The Lion King, Broadway production
- Jekyll & Hyde, Broadway production
- Scarlet Pimpernel, Broadway production
- Titanic, Broadway production
- Side Show, Broadway production
- Steel Pier, Broadway production
- Triumph Of Love, Broadway production
- Forever Tango, Broadway production
- Street Corner Symphony, Broadway production
- Dream, Broadway production
[edit] Musical films
- Anastasia animated feature
- Cats Don't Dance animated feature
- Hercules animated feature
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Burton Lane, composer and lyricist
- January 21 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager
- January 22 - Richard Berry, songwriter (Louie, Louie)
- February 10 - Brian Connolly, Sweet
- March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G., rapper
- March 24 - Kenny Moore, keyboardist for Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Billy Preston and others
- April 9 - Laura Nyro, songwriter
- May 29 - Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- June 2 - Doc Cheatham, jazz trumpeter
- June 24 - Prince Nico Mbarga, Nigerian highlife musician
- August 1 - Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
- August 2 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and composer
- August 10 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
- August 16 - Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer and world music ambassador
- September 8- Derek Taylor, Press agent for The Beatles
- September 18 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer
- September 19 - Rich Mullins, singer
- October 12 - John Denver, American folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician
- November 5 - Epic Soundtracks, English singer/songwriter, drummer of Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution and These Immortal Souls
- November 22 - Michael Hutchence, singer of INXS
- December 28 - Henry Barraud, French composer
[edit] Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The (Young) Rascals, The Bee Gees, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Jackson Five, Joni Mitchell and Parliament-Funkadelic
- Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Gloria Gaither, and Billy Ray Hearn (founder of Myrrh Records)
[edit] Grammy Awards
[edit] Country Music Association Awards
[edit] Eurovision Song Contest
[edit] Mercury Music Prize
- New Forms - Roni Size/Reprazent wins.
[edit] MTV Video Music Awards
[edit] Charts
[edit] Triple J Hottest 100
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