Music History

At the Coventry festival in Vermont, they performed what they described as their final concert. The group reunited in 2009.

At the British Carling Weekend festival in Reading and Leeds, Green Day, The Darkness, The White Stripes, Morrissey, The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, 50 Cent, The Streets, The Vines, Soulwax, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Offspring, Ash, Placebo and Lostprophets performed.

The Rolling Stones held a surprise warm-up concert at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto ahead of the A Bigger Bang tour. Tickets cost $10 and the club had a capacity of approximately 1,000 people.

On the day Phil Lynott would have celebrated his 56th birthday, a concert was held in Dublin featuring Thin Lizzy members Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy's original lead guitarist, and Gary Moore shared lead vocals and guitar on the famous song “Whiskey In The Jar”.

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age collapsed from exhaustion during a concert in Hamburg, Germany.

Shakira began the North American leg of her 99-date Oral Fixation World Tour with a performance at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas.

Drake made his professional debut with a thirty-minute performance at Kool Haus in Toronto, opening for Ice Cube. He earned $100 for it.

The Rolling Stones played the first of two concerts at Twickenham Stadium as part of the A Bigger Bang tour. Feeder and The Charlatans also performed.

Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco and The Subways performed on the first day of the three-day Reading Festival in Leeds and Reading, England.

The Rolling Stones performed at Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England, as part of their “A Bigger Bang” world tour. The legendary rock band played on a notoriously rainy night, but the wet weather did not reduce the energy of the crowd on the stadium floor.

Laura Marling performed alongside Crystal Castles and Mystery Jets at the first Underage Festival in Victoria Park, London. The festival was open exclusively to attendees aged 13 to 17.

Amy Winehouse canceled two scheduled performances in Hamburg, where she was due to open for The Rolling Stones. She cited exhaustion as the reason; Starsailor replaced her.

On the first day of the British Carling Weekend Reading Festival in Leeds and Reading, performers included Kings of Leon, Razorlight and Jimmy Eat World.

The Rolling Stones concluded their two-year A Bigger Bang World Tour with the final concert at London's O2 Arena. The tour became the highest-grossing rock tour up to that time, with gross revenues of $558 million.

The Police zakončili své reunionové turné koncertem v Madison Square Garden v New Yorku. Šlo o jejich první turné od roku 1986, mělo celkem 151 vystoupení a podle zdroje bylo třetím nejvýdělečnějším turné všech dob.

Madonna launched her Sticky & Sweet Tour at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, in support of the album “Hard Candy”. It was her first tour as part of her partnership with Live Nation and, after being extended into 2009, became the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, with 85 concerts in 32 countries grossing approximately $408 million and attracting more than 3.5 million fans. The tour surpassed the previous record Madonna had set with her Confessions Tour in 2006.

Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page performed at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics at the National Stadium, where they performed the Led Zeppelin classic „Whole Lotta Love“ together.

In Denver, political activity surrounding the 2008 Democratic National Convention began, and artists including Kanye West, Rage Against The Machine and John Legend came to the city to perform.

Rage Against The Machine took part in protests against the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, but police prevented them from performing. The band went into the crowd and played two songs through a megaphone, after which riots broke out.

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fell from the stage during a performance at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. He suffered injuries, and the rest of the band's tour was canceled.

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fell from the stage into the crowd during a concert at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota after improvising for waiting fans on the front stage during a sound outage. He suffered a fractured left shoulder, a deep head laceration requiring 20 stitches and minor neck injuries. He was airlifted to Rapid City Regional Hospital, and the remainder of Aerosmith's 2009 North American summer tour was canceled.

They broke the attendance record at Wembley Stadium when 88,000 people attended their concert. The previous record was held by Rod Stewart, whose 1995 concert drew 83,000 people.

Brooks & Dunn played their final joint concert at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville as part of a benefit event for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

The Farm Aid concert marked the 25th anniversary of the benefit event in Kansas City. Performers included Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, and others.

Before their performance at the Indiana State Fair, a powerful gust of wind tore the stage structure into the crowd. Five people were killed and dozens more were injured; Janet Jackson and Lady Antebellum subsequently also canceled their performances.

Madonna vystoupila v Moskvě a během koncertu vyjádřila podporu skupině Pussy Riot, jejíž členky byly uvězněny za vystoupení v moskevské katedrále.

The Geto Boys reunited and performed at the 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos.

The closing ceremony of the London Olympics featured a three-hour musical program with performances by a number of prominent British artists.

The London Olympics concluded with an extensive musical closing ceremony featuring performances by the Spice Girls, George Michael, The Who, Take That, Muse, One Direction, Queen and others.

Lisa Marie Presley made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry, where she sang three songs from her then-current album “Storm & Grace” before a sold-out audience. Nervously joking, she said she hoped there would not be a truck waiting outside, a self-deprecating reference to the legendary and probably fictional story that the Opry manager supposedly told Elvis after his 1954 debut to go back to driving a truck.

N Sync reunited for a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, where Justin Timberlake received the Video Vanguard Award. It was their first joint performance since 2004.

Billy Joel zazpíval „Uptown Girl“ své bývalé manželce Christie Brinkley během koncertu v Madison Square Garden v New Yorku.

Kate Bush asked fans not to photograph or record her upcoming series of 22 concerts in London using mobile devices. The 56-year-old singer said she very much wanted to connect with the audience rather than with iPhones, iPads or cameras, and admitted that it was a big request.

Kate Bush returned to the stage after 35 years with a concert at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The series of 22 sold-out concerts ran from August 26 to October 1, and tickets sold out in less than 15 minutes. The “Before The Dawn” production featured acting elements, puppeteers and an illusionist, and the concerts received enthusiastic reviews; the following week, eight of her albums returned to the UK Top 40.

Supertramp canceled their planned European tour so that Rick Davies could undergo treatment for multiple myeloma.

Westboro Baptist Church, known for its protests against homosexuality, staged a demonstration before the Foo Fighters concert in Kansas City. The group responded by positioning a truck in front of the demonstrators and mocking them by loudly playing Rick Astley's song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

Wilko Johnson, known for his work with Dr. Feelgood, returned to the stage after overcoming cancer, performing at the Rye Jazz Festival in East Sussex, England.

Van Morrison performed two concerts on Cyprus Avenue in Belfast on his 70th birthday. The street had inspired him to write the song "Cyprus Avenue".

Paul McCartney performed at Busch Stadium in St. Louis as part of the One on One tour.

The Tragically Hip played their final concert together in the hometown of their singer Gord Downie, Kingston, Ontario, at the end of a 15-date farewell tour. Downie had been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer in December 2015. The sold-out concert took place at the Rogers K-Rock Centre and was broadcast to more than 11.7 million viewers. Public screenings were held across Canada, with approximately 22,000 fans attending the screening in Kingston. The concert was later released as “The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration”.

The Tragically Hip drew a sold-out audience to a concert in Kingston, Ontario, where their dying singer Gord Downie said farewell to Canada. The concert was broadcast live across Canada and screened at hundreds of public viewing events in bars and outdoor venues.

Bruce Springsteen set his personal record for the length of a concert in the US by playing for four hours. He surpassed his previous performance of 3 hours and 52 minutes, which he had played two nights earlier with The E Street Band.

Kanye West began his Saint Pablo Tour with a concert in Indianapolis. During the performance West sang on a floating stage suspended about 15 feet above the audience.

During the historic solar eclipse, Bonnie Tyler performed “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”, while Ozzy Osbourne performed “Bark At The Moon”.