2001 in British music
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This is a summary of 2001 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- 13 February – Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
- 17 February – Manic Street Preachers become the first western rock band to play in Cuba. (Fidel Castro is in attendance.)
- 8 March – Melanie Chisholm announces she does not intend to do any more work with the Spice Girls. Although the group denies it is splitting, it would not be active again until 2007.[1]
- 28 March - Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 replaces Max Bruch's violin concerto at #1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
- 4 April – Original Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent reunite for a two-part performance at London's Jazz Cafe, the first time the two had performed together in over 30 years.
- 6 October - Pop Idol is broadcast for the first time on ITV.
- 1 November - The governing body of the UK Singles Chart, Chart Information Network Ltd. (CIN), changes its name to The Official UK Charts Company.
Classical music
Summary
Russell Watson came to the fore in 2001, with the release of his best-selling album The Voice. Another hit album was the score from Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Stephen Warbeck. Karl Jenkins "mass for peace", entitled The Armed Man, went quickly into the Classic FM top 300 annual chart, making him the highest-placed living composer.
Works
- Robat Arwyn – Atgof o'r Sêr
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No. 8 (Antarctic Symphony)
- Howard Goodall – In Memoriam Anne Frank
- Christopher Gunning - Piano Concerto
- Stuart Mitchell – Seven Wonders Suite for Choir & Orchestra
- Hilary Tann – The Grey Tide and the Green
Opera
- Julian Wagstaff - John Paul Jones[2]
Albums
- Karl Jenkins - Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot
- Julian Lloyd Webber - Celebration
- Russell Watson - The Voice
Musical films
- Strictly Sinatra, directed by Peter Capaldi, starring Ian Hart
Film scores and incidental music
Music awards
BRIT Awards
The 2001 BRIT Awards winners were:
- Best soundtrack: "American Beauty"
- British album: Coldplay – "Parachutes"
- British breakthrough act: a1
- British dance act: Fatboy Slim
- British female solo artist: Sonique
- British group: Coldplay
- British male solo artist: Robbie Williams
- British single: Robbie Williams – "Rock DJ"
- British video: Robbie Williams – "Rock DJ"
- International breakthrough act: Kelis
- International female: Madonna
- International group: U2
- International male: Eminem
- Outstanding contribution: U2
- Pop act: Westlife
Mercury Music Prize
The 2001 Mercury Music Prize was awarded to PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.
Record of the Year
The Record of the Year was awarded to "Don't Stop Movin'" by S Club 7.
Deaths
- 4 January - Lawrence Leonard, cellist, conductor and composer, 77[3]
- 21 February - Ronnie Hilton, singer, 75
- 9 April - Ken Rattenbury, jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer, 80
- 11 April - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer, 79
- 29 April - Rita Hunter, operatic soprano, 67
- 6 May - Mike Hazlewood, singer, composer and songwriter, 59 (heart attack)[4]
- 21 May - Tony Ashton, keyboardist, singer and composer, 55 (cancer)
- 12 June - Thomas Wilson, composer, 83
- 3 July - Delia Derbyshire, electronic musician and composer, 64[5]
- 12 July – James Bernard, film composer, 75
- 22 July - Emmanuel Fisher, conductor and composer, 79
- 16 November - Rosemary Brown, composer, pianist and spiritualist, 85
- 28 November - Norman Lumsden, opera singer and actor, 95[6]
- 29 November - George Harrison, singer, musician, music and film producer, 58
- 16 December – Stuart Adamson, guitarist with Big Country, 43 (suicide)[7]
References
- ↑ "Mel C 'not quitting Spices'". BBC News. March 8, 2001. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
- ↑ The Scotsman, 11 July 2001
- ↑ "Lawrence Leonard obituary". Music and Vision. Retrieved 2006-09-01.
- ↑ The Dead Rock Stars Club 2001. Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-04.
- ↑ Hodgson, Brian (7 July 2001). "Obituary: Delia Derbyshire". Guardian Unlimited.
- ↑ Obituary of Norman Lumsden, 2 December 2001 in The Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Mike Wade, Autopsy shows star was drunk at time of suicide, The Scotsman, 26 January 2002.
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