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1997 in music

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1997 in music - 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 trailor approaching the scene swerves to miss McVicker, striking and killing Mullins instantly. McVicker survives, but suffered major injuries.
• August 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 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 - 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.
• 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.
• Orgy's musical career begins
• Lostprophets' musical career begins
• The Shins are formed.
• Dinosaur Jr. disbanded
• Gin Blossoms disbanded
• Soundgarden disbanded
• Swans disbanded
• The companies Memorex, Maxell, and TDK introduce Blank recordable CDs
• God Ate My Homework formed as one of the first bands to offer their music in MP3 format.
• The White Stripes are formed.
• Coldplay are formed.
• Queens of the Stone Age are formed.

1997 in music - Classical music

• Jacob Ter Veldhuis - Goldrush Concerto
• Paul McCartney - Standing Stone

1997 in music - Albums released

• Transistor - 311
• Nine Lives - Aerosmith
• Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin
• Sevens - Garth Brooks
• Happy? - Jann Arden
• Anywhere But Here - The Ataris
• Tested - Bad Religion
• Telegram - Björk
• Homogenic - Björk
• Dude Ranch - blink-182
• Surf-N-Burn - The Blue Stingrays
• Straight on Till Morning - Blues Traveler
• Blur - Blur
• Boston: Greatest Hits - Boston
• Earthling - David Bowie
• Twenty-Eight Teeth - Buck-O-Nine
• Medazzaland - Duran Duran
• Body Language - Jonathan Cain
• The Virginian - Neko Case
• Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
• Dig Your Own Hole - Chemical Brothers
• Something Wild - Children of Bodom
• My Own Prison - Creed
• Galore - The Cure
• Les Années Orlando (1970-1997) - Dalida (compilation)
• Olympia 1959 - Dalida (inédit)
• L'An 2005 - Dalida (remix album)
• Around The Fur - Deftones
• Serpents of the Light - Deicide
• Ultra - Depeche Mode
• Accident of Birth - Bruce Dickinson
• Titanic - Céline Dion (soundtrack)
• Enthrone Darkness Triumphant - Dimmu Borgir
• Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath - Dr. Dre
• Evergreen - Echo & The Bunnymen
• Kingdom of Madness - Edguy
• The Messenger - Kurt Elling
• Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk - Emperor
• Cowboy - Erasure
• So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear
• Album Of The Year - Faith No More
• Remanufacture - Fear Factory
• The Dance - Fleetwood Mac
• The Colour And The Shape - Foo Fighters
• Somewhere Out In Space - Gamma Ray
• Nighttime Birds - The Gathering
• God Street Wine - God Street Wine
• Behind The Eyes - Amy Grant
• Takes A Little Time - Amy Grant
• Play - Great Big Sea
• The Synthetic Form - Gridlock
• Glory to the Brave - Hammerfall
• Middle Of Nowhere - Hanson
• Aftertaste - Helmet
• The First Session - Hole
• Days of Purgatory - Iced Earth
• Whoracle - In Flames
• The Great Milenko - Insane Clown Posse
• National Steel - Colin James
• The Velvet Rope - Janet Jackson
• In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 - Jay-Z
• Oxygene 7-13 - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Jerky Boys 4 - Jerky Boys
• Jugulator - Judas Priest
• I Got Next - KRS-One
• Lie to Me - Jonny Lang
• Euphoria - Leftover Salmon
• Three Dollar Bill Y'all - Limp Bizkit
• Secret Samadhi - Live
• Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
• Flaming Pie - Paul McCartney
• Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
• Cryptic Writings - Megadeth
• Honky - Melvins
• Reload - Metallica
• Young Team - Mogwai
• Formulas Fatal to the Flesh - Morbid Angel
• Generation Swine - Mötley Crüe
• Life In General - MxPx
• Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder
• The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Angels Fall First - Nightwish
• Be Here Now - Oasis
• Back From the Dead - Obituary
• Ixnay On The Hombre - The Offspring
• Full Circle - Pennywise
• Billy Breathes - Phish
• Slip Stitch and Pass - Phish
• Portishead - Portishead
• II - The Presidents of the United States of America
• Brown Album - Primus
• The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy
• Quad (№ 1) - Quad (a Gary Ramon solo project)
• OK Computer - Radiohead
• Sehnsucht - Rammstein
• Unit - Regurgitator
• Legendary Tales - Rhapsody
• Double Live - Rheostatics
• Retrospective I - Rush
• The Wake of Magellan - Savatage
• Unleash the Beast - Saxon
• The Remixes - Shakira
• Child: Music for the Christmas Season - Jane Siberry
• Built To Last - Sick of it All
• Lake of Sorrow - The Sins of Thy Beloved
• Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
• Either/Or - Elliott Smith
• Big Willie Style - Will Smith
• Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps
• Men In Black - Soundtrack
• The Lost Highway - Soundtrack
• Spiceworld - The Spice Girls
• Weights and Measures - Spirit of the West
• Dots and Loops - Stereolab
• Visions - Stratovarius
• In It for the Money - Supergrass
• The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X
• It Doesn't Matter Anymore - The Supernaturals
• Then: The Earlier Years - They Might Be Giants
• Live Between Us - The Tragically Hip
• Good Feeling - Travis
• Come on Over - Shania Twain
• Songs of a Circling Spirit - Tom Cochrane
• Amrep Christmas - Unsane
• Never Mind the Opened Minds - US Bombs
• War Birth - US Bombs
• Pop - U2
• Fire Garden - Steve Vai
• Eight Arms to Hold You - Veruca Salt
• Urban Hymns - The Verve
• The Mollusk - Ween
• Bombs & Butterflies - Widespread Panic
• Enter - Within Temptation
• WU Tang Forever - Wu Tang Clan

1997 in music - Top hits

• "Eye" - Smashing Pumpkins
• "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
• "The Perfect Drug" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
• "The Difference" - The Wallflowers
• "Forty Six & 2" - Tool
• "A Long December" - Counting Crows
• "Magdalene" - Lenny Kravitz
• "My Heart Will Go On" - Céline Dion
• "Don't Speak" - No Doubt
• "Da Funk" - Daft Punk
• "6 Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
• "Lakini's Juice" - Live
• "La Tumba" - Dalida (Remix)
• "Gigi In Paradisco" - Dalida (Remix)
• "Salma Ya Salama (Sueno Flamenco)" - Dalida (Remix)
• "Silver Springs" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
• "Karma Police" - Radiohead
• "Volcano" - The Presidents of the United States of America
• "You Were Meant For Me" - Jewel
• "All By Myself" - Céline Dion
• "Longneck Bottle" - Garth Brooks
• "MMMBop" - Hanson
• "Say You'll Be There" - Spice Girls
• "All I Want" - The Offspring

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1997

1997 in music - Classical music

• Leonardo Balada - Concierto Magico for Guitar and Orchestra
• Silvie Bodorova - Terezin Ghetto Requiem

1997 in music - Opera

• Robert Ashley - Balseros
• Mark Blitzstein - Regina
• Michael Daugherty - Jackie O
• Daron Hagen - Vera of Las Vegas
• Peter Lieberson - Ashoka's Dream

1997 in music - 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

1997 in music - Musical films

• Anastasia     animated feature
• Hercules     animated feature

1997 in music - Births

1997 in music - 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, kidney failure
• March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G.
• March 24 - Kenny Moore, Keyboardist for Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Billy Preston and others
• April 9 - Laura Nyro, songwriter, ovarian cancer
• May 29 - Jeff Buckley, accidental drowning
• June 2 - Doc Cheatham, jazz trumpeter
• August 1 - Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
• August 2 - Fela Kuti, AIDS-related heart failure
• August 10 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
• September - Derek Taylor, Press agent for The Beatles
• September 19 - Rich Mullins, singer, car accident
• October 12 - John Denver
• November 22 - Michael Hutchence, singer (INXS), suicide

1997 in music - 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)

1997 in music - Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1997

1997 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1997 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1997

1997 in music - Mercury Music Prize

• New Forms - Roni Size/Reprazent wins.

1997 in music - Charts

1997 in music - KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1997

1997 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1997

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