2001 in British music

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.) They did not tour, meaning that an unsigned British rock band, Sandstone Veterans, remain the only band from the western world to tour Cuba.
  • 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]
  • 26 March – Damon Albarn's project Gorillaz releases a first studio album Gorillaz, which would sell over seven million copies worldwide by 2007, earning them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.
  • 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.
  • 16 June – Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu becomes the first performer to win both the main prize and the song prize in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.[2]
  • 2 July – Liverpool Airport is rechristened Liverpool John Lennon Airport in an official ceremony.[3]
  • 21 September - Welsh band Catatonia split up amicably, and after Cerys Matthews' treatment in rehab for alcohol and smoking problems.
  • 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

Opera

Albums

Musical films

Film scores and incidental music

Music awards

BRIT Awards

The 2001 BRIT Awards winners were:

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

References
  1. "Mel C 'not quitting Spices'". BBC News. 8 March 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  2. "2001 - The Final". BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. BBC. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. Christina Saraceno (2 July 2001). "Liverpool Honors Lennon". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. The Scotsman, 11 July 2001
  5. "Lawrence Leonard obituary". Music and Vision. Retrieved 1 September 2006.
  6. The Dead Rock Stars Club 2001. Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-04.
  7. Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
  8. Hodgson, Brian (7 July 2001). "Obituary: Delia Derbyshire". Guardian Unlimited.
  9. Obituary of Norman Lumsden, 2 December 2001 in The Daily Telegraph
  10. Mike Wade, Autopsy shows star was drunk at time of suicide, The Scotsman, 26 January 2002.
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