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- Oasis played two sold-out concerts at Balloch Castle Country Park in Scotland, drawing more than 80,000 fans. During preparations for the concerts, roadie James Hunter was killed after being crushed between a forklift and a lorry; the accident occurred the day before the first show.
- Ramones played their final concert at The Palace in Hollywood, Los Angeles. It was their 2,263rd performance, and the setlist contained 32 songs. The final song was “Anyway You Want It” by The Dave Clark Five, performed with Eddie Vedder. Other guests during the concert included Dee Dee Ramone, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Lars Frederiksen and Tim Armstrong. The entire concert was recorded and released in 1997 as the live album “We're Outta Here!”
- Vince Neil attempted to perform a concert at a club in Indiana. The show began more than four hours late and ended after three songs.
- KISS performed at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, during their Alive World Tour. During the concert, a fan threw his artificial leg onto the stage, and all the members signed it and returned it to him.
- Oasis played the first of two concerts at Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. Each night drew 125,000 people, and approximately one in every twenty people in the UK applied for tickets. The concerts became the biggest performances of their era and the high point of Britpop.
- Radiohead began a series of 13 concerts at Darien Center in New York as the opening act for Alanis Morissette. During the tour, they tested new songs including “No Surprises” and “Paranoid Android,” which later appeared on the album OK Computer.
- Performed at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, with Radiohead as the opening act.
- James Brown performed in Montauk, New York, as part of his Back at the Ranch tour. Brown, who had previously had problems with violence toward his wife, offered money raised at the event to The Retreat, an organization dedicated to preventing and combating domestic violence. The organization declined the offer.
- U2 performed in Oslo, where the giant lemon they were supposed to emerge from onstage failed to open.
- Garth Brooks odehrál bezplatný koncert v Central Parku v New Yorku. Odhadovaná návštěvnost se v dodaných záznamech pohybuje od více než 100 000 do jednoho milionu lidí. Dalších 14,6 milionu diváků koncert sledovalo živě na HBO.
- The Verve played their first concert in Sheffield, England, following the band’s breakup two years earlier.
- Lzzy Hale and her brother Arejay performed their own song “Love Is Power” at the Schuylkill County Fair talent show in Pennsylvania under the name Halestorm.
- A memorial concert was held in Memphis to mark the 20th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Lisa Marie Presley unveiled the music video "Don't Cry Daddy", a virtual duet combining her father's original vocals with her own singing.
- Mark Wills made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry and performed his song “Jacob's Ladder”.
- U2 played the first of two sold-out concerts at Wembley Stadium in London. During the encore, they performed a medley of several songs and six songs in full.
- Boyzone began their Southeast Asian tour in Bangalore, India. It was the first time an international act had launched a tour in this region.
- Steven Seagal began a North American music tour in support of his new film “Fire Down Below”.
- During U2’s PopMart Tour in Leeds, Bono responded to George Harrison’s comment that Bono and his band were “so egotistical” by raising his middle finger and saying, “This is for you, George!”
- James Brown became the first American performer to appear in Lebanon after a recent lifting of the ban on American citizens traveling to the country.
- They performed on the second day of the A Day In The Garden festival in Bethel, New York, where Woodstock had also taken place. Joni Mitchell closed her performance with the song “Woodstock”.
- During the second of two concerts at Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, Elton John invited comedian Jim Carrey onto the stage, in the presence of Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley, for an unexpected duet of “Rocket Man”. Carrey wore one of Elton’s distinctive red Versace jackets, alternated vocals with him, and harmonized; while singing, he improvised the line “a long, long time” as “friggin' forever”. After the performance, he sat down at the piano and struck his head against the keys.
- Shania Twain's concert in Syracuse, New York, was interrupted after lightning struck the ground approximately 40 yards behind the stage. The concert was almost over at the time.
- Před koncertem Dave Matthews Band v Hartfordu v Connecticutu vypuklo násilí a na parkovišti Meadows Music Theater bylo zatčeno 55 lidí.
- Four music festivals were held in Cornwall, England, during the total solar eclipse. Performers at the various events included James, The Levellers, Van Morrison, Kula Shaker and Happy Mondays.
- Lionel Richie performed under the stars in front of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt as part of a series of concerts by major musicians intended to support tourism in the country. Approximately 3,000 people attended the exclusive outdoor concert, including Egyptian diplomats, celebrities and foreign visitors.
- At the three-day Carling Reading festival in England, The Charlatans, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Offspring, Catatonia, Reef, The Chemical Brothers, The Divine Comedy, Pavement, Silverchair and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion performed. Tickets cost £78.
- Pearl Jam played the first show of the North American leg of their Binaural Tour in Virginia Beach.
- They played a free protest concert in Los Angeles across the street from Staples Center, where the Democratic National Convention was being held. After the concert, police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of 9,000 people after the event turned violent.
- Bon Jovi played the final concert at the historic Wembley Stadium before its demolition.
- At the Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festival in England, performers included Oasis, Primal Scream, Foo Fighters, The Bluetones, Muse, Eminem, Beck, Stereophonics, Blink 182, Slipknot, Placebo, Pulp, Rage Against The Machine, Gomez, Limp Bizkit, Embrace and The Wannadies.
- Black Sabbath, Linkin Park, Slipknot and Marilyn Manson performed at Ozzfest at the PNC Bank Arts Centre in New Jersey.
- Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted performed live with EchoBrain for the first time.
- The Backstreet Boys resumed their Black & Blue World Tour 2001, which had been interrupted on July 9 after A.J. McLean entered a treatment center.
- Performers at the Carling Weekend Reading/Leeds festival included Travis, Eminem, Eels, Green Day, Marilyn Manson, Supergrass, PJ Harvey, Manic Street Preachers, Weezer, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cult, Frank Black, The Strokes, Ash, Stephen Malkmus, Mercury Rev and others. A three-day ticket cost £80.
- Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nelly Furtado were the headline acts at the V2001 festival in Hylands Park in Chelmsford, England.
- After a 37-year absence, Bob Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival, performing a two-hour, 19-song set.
- Diana Ross canceled the remaining dates of her summer North American concert tour. No reason for the cancellation was announced.
- Mobile Graceland began its journey through 31 cities in Memphis.
- Robbie Williams performed at Knebworth and sang “Back for Good” with Mark Owen during the show.
- Roger Daltrey performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in a production of “My Fair Lady.”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled their tour after a doctor advised guitarist Gary Rossington to rest because of serious health problems.
- Dick Peterson of The Kingsmen joined 753 other guitarists to play „Louie Louie“ together at a charity event in Tacoma, Washington.
- Britney Spears and Madonna kissed during the opening performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Madonna then kissed Christina Aguilera, but the director switched the shot to Justin Timberlake in the audience.
- At the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Athens, Björk performed “Oceania” in a giant dress whose fabric unfolded to approximately 10,000 feet and covered the area for spectators, onto which a world map was then projected.