1999 in British music

none October 2019 December 2014 1999 British music 1999 This is a summary of 1999 in music in the United Kingdom. Events January – The film Hilary and Jackie, starring Emily Watson and James Frain as Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim, is released.Du Pré sister defends film https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/21/stephenmoss.stephenmoss1 20 April 2018 Moss Stephen The Guardian 21 January 1999 3 January – Steps score their first number one in the UK singles chart with "Heartbeat / Tragedy".https://generationsteps.co.uk/news/steps-are-number-one-with-tragedy/ Steps are number one with Tragedy! 3 January 1999 Generation Steps 5 April 2022 7 January After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and his wife Rachel Hunter announce they are separating. Paul McCartney is present at his daughter Heather's latest launch event in Georgia, United States. 10 February – Iron Maiden announces that singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith have rejoined the band, while lead singer Blaze Bayley has left. This means the band now has three lead guitarists. Wall Mick Mick Wall Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography third Sanctuary Publishing 2004 1-86074-542-3 331 14 February – Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated series The Simpsons 16 February – Belle & Sebastian win the British Breakthrough Award at the Brit Awards, leading to allegations that voting was rigged in their favour and that Steps would have won. Fans of Belle & Sebastian argued that the band have a large student following, and felt that the award should be given in recognition of artistic merit, rather than popularity or CD sales. 25 February – The Quintet for trumpet and strings by Peter Maxwell Davies is performed for the first time in the Mitchell Hall, University of Aberdeen. 21 March – Irish girl group B*Witched score a fourth consecutive number one in the UK singles chart with "Blame It on the Weatherman", thus becoming the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top and setting a new record that would be broken a year later by Westlife. 10 April – A charity tribute, the Concert for Linda McCartney, is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Eddie Izzard, with proceeds going to animal rights causes. Performers include Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and Tom Jones.https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-information-on-a-concert-for-linda-mccartney-1087160.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-information-on-a-concert-for-linda-mccartney-1087160.html 1 May 2022 subscription The Information on: A Concert for Linda McCartney The Independent 14 April 1999 3 January 2019 28 April – The Verve split for the second time. Frontman Richard Ashcroft launches a solo career. 27 May – The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors establishes its new fellowship, the first recipient being Martin Gore.Pride, Dominic: "Cher, Hynde among Ivors' U.S winners Billboard, 12 June 1999. (p. 40). Retrieved 21 October 2010.Video of Martin Gore receiving the Ivor Novello award https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092840/http://www.depechemode.com/video/other/novello.html 25 February 2012 depechemode.com. Retrieved 21 October 2010. 7 June – S Club 7 release their debut single "Bring It All Back", which goes to number one in the UK singles chart. 27 June – The first performance of Tobias and the Angel, a one act church cantata by Jonathan Dove, takes place at Christ Church, Highbury as part of the Almeida Festival, directed by Kate Brown. 28 August – Former Dexys Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland is bottled offstage at the Reading Festival, which saw him perform "The Greatest Love of All" whilst wearing a white dress. 29 August – Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan leave Oasis. They are replaced by Colin "Gem" Archer, formerly of Heavy Stereo and Andy Bell, formerly of Ride and Hurricane#1. 18 September – The first performance of Cyril Rootham‘s The Lady of Shalott, a setting of Tennyson’s poem for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra, takes place in the School Hall, Eton College, by the Broadheath Singers and the Windsor Sinfonia, conducted by Robert Tucker. Rootham wrote the piece circa 1909–1910, but it was not performed in his lifetime. 21 September – David Bowie releases Hours, his twenty-first studio album and the first by a major artist to be made legally available as an electronic download.https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/22/business/the-flux-in-pop-music-has-a-distinctly-download-beat-to-it.html The Flux in Pop Music Has a Distinctly Download Beat to It Sue Cummings The New York Times 1999-09-22 2013-11-01 12 November – At Bristol Crown Court, former glam rock star Gary Glitter is jailed for four months for downloading child pornography.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/517604.stm Glitter jailed over child porn 18 June 2007 12 November 1999 BBC News 2 December – James MacMillan's Symphony No. 2 receives its premiere at Ayr Town Hall by the Scottish Chamber Symphony, with the composer conducting.MacMillan James James MacMillan 1999 MacMillan, James: Symphony No. 2 Boosey & Hawkes http://www.boosey.com/cr/music/James-MacMillan-Symphony-No-2/1007&langid=1 November 4, 2015 30 December – George Harrison and his wife Olivia fight off a knife attack by an intruder in his Friar Park home.https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9800E4D81238F932A05751C1A96F958260 George Harrison Stabbed in Chest by an Intruder The New York Times September 26, 2012 Sarah Lyall December 31, 1999 December – Alan McGee announces the dissolution of Creation Records after 16 years. The final release for the label would be Primal Scream's album "XTRMNTR", released in January 2000. Classical works Arthur Butterworth – Bubu for English horn, viola and harp, Op. 107 Alun Hoddinott – Symphony No. 10 Joe Jackson – Symphony No. 1 James MacMillan, Symphony No. 2 Julian Stewart Lindsay – Vox Dei Roger Smalley – Crepuscule, for piano quartet Raymond Yiu – Trancedhttps://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/tranced Tranced British Music Collection 3 January 2019 Opera David Blake – Scoring A CenturyAmanda Holden The New Penguin Opera Guide https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140514759 registration 2001 Penguin 978-0-14-051475-9 Jonathan Dove – Tobias and the Angel Musical theatre 6 April – Mamma Mia!, with book by Catherine Johnson and songs by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre. It would later transfer to the Prince of Wales Theatre on 9 June 2004, continuing its run until September 2012, when it moved to the Novello Theatre.https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/West-End-MAMMA-MIA-Will-Move-to-the-Novello-Theatre-20111013 West End's MAMMA MIA! Will Move to the Novello Theatre BWW News Desk BroadwayWorld.com Musical films Topsy-Turvy, starring Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilberthttp://bbfc.co.uk/releases/topsy-turvy-2 https://web.archive.org/web/20160203044701/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/topsy-turvy-2 dead 3 February 2016 TOPSY-TURVY (12) British Board of Film Classification 4 August 1999 28 January 2016 Film scores and incidental music Film Michael Nyman – WonderlandBBC Radio 4 Film Programme, 5 December 2008 Rachel Portman – The Cider House Ruleshttps://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2018/02/16/flicks-in-five-rachel-portman-rules-with-cider-house Flicks in Five: Rachel Portman rules with 'Cider House' 16 February 2018 ClassicalMPR 21 January 2019 (Academy Award nominated) Television Murray Gold – Queer as Folk"Original TV Soundtrack, Queer as Folk: The Whole Love Thing Sorted", review by Heather Phares, AllMusic. Accessed 18 March 2015. Music awards BRIT Awards The 1999 BRIT Awards winners were:https://www.brits.co.uk/history/shows/1999 1999 – London Arena Brit Awards 5 April 2022 2 June 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213838/https://www.brits.co.uk/history/shows/1999 dead Best soundtrack: Titanic British album: Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours British breakthrough act: Belle & Sebastian British dance act: Fatboy Slim British female solo artist: Des'ree British group: Manic Street Preachers British male solo artist: Robbie Williams British single: Robbie Williams – "Angels" British video: Robbie Williams – "Millennium" International breakthrough act: Natalie Imbruglia International female: Natalie Imbruglia International group: The Corrs International male: Beck Outstanding contribution: Eurythmics Mercury Music Prize The 1999 Mercury Music Prize was awarded to Talvin Singh – Ok. Record of the Year The Record of the Year was awarded to "Flying Without Wings" by Westlife. Births 28 January – Hrvy, singer April – S1mba, rapperAppointments for Leonard Simbarashe RWODZI (born April 1999) https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/OH45pYoxZT7DFefEf4t77QLHE3A/appointments live 12 June 2020 Companies House en https://web.archive.org/web/20200612192900/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/OH45pYoxZT7DFefEf4t77QLHE3A/appointments 12 June 2020 4 April – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, award-winning cellist 9 December – Aitch, rapperhttps://www.capitalxtra.com/features/facts/aitch/ 10 facts you need to know about 'Rain' rapper Aitch Capital Xtra 2 March 2022 Deaths 14 January – Bryn Jones, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, 37 (infection) Strauss Neil Bryan Jones, 38, Musician Known as Muslimgauze The New York Times 28 January 1999 https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/28/arts/bryn-jones-38-musician-known-as-muslimgauze.html 16 June 2015 23 February – Ruth Gipps, composer, oboist, pianist and impresario, 78Halstead, Jill (2006). Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism And Difference in English Music. Aldershot: Ashgate. 0-7546-0178-1. 2 March – Dusty Springfield, singer, 59 (breast cancer) 12 March – Yehudi Menuhin, violinist and musical director, 82 21 March – Ernie Wise, entertainer, 73https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/22/guardianobituaries Ernie Wise obituary 22 March 1999 Stephen Dixon The Guardian 17 January 2019 3 April – Lionel Bart, songwriter, 68 (cancer) 6 April – William Pleeth, cellist, 83 14 April – Anthony Newley, songwriter, actor and singer, 67 26 April – Adrian Borland, songwriter, 41 29 April – Perry Ford, singer, 65 30 April – Darrell Sweet, drummer, 51 18 May – Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeter, 78 19 May – James Blades, orchestral percussionist, 97https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-james-blades-1095585.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-james-blades-1095585.html 1 May 2022 subscription Obituary: James Blades 24 May 1999 Graham Melville-Mason The Independent 17 January 2019 16 June – Screaming Lord Sutch, pop musician and politician, 58 12 July – Bill Owen, actor and songwriter, 85 (pancreatic cancer)Dennis Barker https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/13/guardianobituaries1 Bill Owen The Guardian 1999-07-13 2012-06-17 London 17 July – Kevin Wilkinson, drummer, 41 27 July – Amaryllis Fleming, cellist, 73 2 August – Eric Hope, pianist, 84 25 August – Rob Fisher, keyboard player, 42 17 September – Frankie Vaughan, singer, 71 (heart failure) 1 October – Lena Zavaroni, singer, 35 (pneumonia)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coroner-rules-zavaroni-died-of-natural-causes-744128.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coroner-rules-zavaroni-died-of-natural-causes-744128.html 1 May 2022 subscription Coroner rules Zavaroni died of 'natural causes' 9 December 1999 Kate Watson-Smyth The Independent 17 January 2019 7 October – Deryck Guyler, actor and washboard player, 85https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/09/guardianobituaries1 Deryck Guyler 9 October 1999 Carole Woddis The Guardian 17 January 2019 15 October – Josef Locke, tenor, 82https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/16/guardianobituaries Josef Locke 16 October 1999 Stephen Dixon The Guardian 17 January 2019 18 October – Tony Crombie, jazz drummer, pianist, composer and bandleader, 74 21 October – Queenie Ashton, singer and actress, 96 31 October – Howard Ferguson, composer and musicologist, 91 11 November – Thomas Pitfield, composer, artist and writer, 96The Independent – Obituary: Thomas Pitfield, by Martin Anderson 14 November – Minna Keal, composer, 90 7 December – Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter, 78https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/557384.stm Jazz great Baker dies BBC News 1999-12-09 2013-04-02 See also 1999 in British music charts 1999 in British radio 1999 in British television 1999 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1999 References External links BBC Radio 1's Chart Show with Mark Goodier The Official Charts Company Category:British music by year Category:20th century in music