2007 in music

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• January
• George Shearing
  George Shearing
  
  Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....
   is knighted for services to music in the Queen
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  
  Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
  's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie
  Evelyn Glennie
  
  Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, Order of the British Empire is a Scotland virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo professional percussionist in 20th century western society....
   becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper
  Imogen Cooper
  
  Imogen Cooper, Order of the British Empire is an English pianist.Born in London, she is the daughter of the musicologist Martin Cooper. She studied piano in London with Kathleen Long, in Paris with Jacques F?vrier and Yvonne Lef?bure, and in Vienna with Alfred Brendel, J?rg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda....
  , John Rutter
  John Rutter
  
  John Milford Rutter Order of the British Empire is an England composer, choir conducting, editing, arranger and record producer.Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener....
   and Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
   are awarded the CBE.
• Rumours circulate that The Police
  The Police
  
  The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
   will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne
  Roxanne (song)
  
  "Roxanne" is a hit song by the Rock music band The Police, first released in 1978 in music as a single and on their album Outlandos d'Amour....
  ". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material. On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11 and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour
  The Police Reunion Tour
  
  The Police Reunion Tour was a 2007-2008 worldwide concert tour by The Police, marking the 30th anniversary of their beginnings. At its conclusion, the tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million....
  .
• Rumours circulate that Timbaland
  Timbaland
  
  Timothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapping, and singer. Timbaland has produced albums and singles for a number of artists from the mid-1990s to the present day....
   may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado
  Nelly Furtado
  
  Nelly Kim Furtado is a Grammy Award-winning Canada singer of Portuguese people ancestry. She is a singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress....
  's "Do It
  DO IT
  
  Do It may refer to:In music:*"Do it" a song by the band The Doors off their 1969 album The Soft Parade* "Do It", a song by Neil Diamond, released as a single in 1970....
  ." See 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy
  2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy
  
  Timbaland's plagiarism controversy occurred in January 2007, when several news sources reported that Timbaland was alleged to have music plagiarism several elements in the song "Do It" on the 2006 album Loose by Nelly Furtado without giving credit or compensation....
  .
• Lebanese-born UK popstar Mika
  Mika (singer)
  
  Michael Holbrook Penniman , known as Mika , is a London, Grammy-nominated and 2008 BRIT Awards-winning singer-songwriter, who has a recording contract with Casablanca Records and Universal Music....
  's music career begins after signing to Universal Records UK
  Universal Records
  
  Universal Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as part of The Universal Motown/Universal Republic Group....
  .
• February

• • February 5 — UK popstar, Mika
    Mika (singer)
    
    Michael Holbrook Penniman , known as Mika , is a London, Grammy-nominated and 2008 BRIT Awards-winning singer-songwriter, who has a recording contract with Casablanca Records and Universal Music....
     releases his highly anticipated album Life In Cartoon Motion
    Life in Cartoon Motion
    
    Life in Cartoon Motion is the debut album by pop singer Mika , produced by Greg Wells and Mika, mixed by Greg Wells, with co-production on two songs by Jodi Marr and John Merchant, released on Island Records on February 5, 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on Universal/Motown Records on March 27, 2007 in the United States....
    , kickstarting his very famous international career with the debut single Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly (song)
    
    "Grace Kelly" is a song by Mika released for download on 9 January 2007. It also appears on Mika's 2007 album Life in Cartoon Motion. Produced and mixed by Greg Wells, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number three and the UK Official Download Chart at number one ....
    .
  • February 7 — Frontman Billy Corgan
    Billy Corgan
    
    William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an United States of America singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins....
     reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
     would finally release the first reunion album Zeitgeist on July 7. This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s Machina/The Machines of God
    MACHINA/The Machines of God
    
    Machina/The Machines of God is The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, released on February 29, 2000. A concept album, it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official Vinyl record release prior to their first breakup in 2000....
     with the last Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
    MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
    
    Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000....
     being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release.
  • February 11 — the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS
    CBS
    
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
    , presented at the Staples Center
    Staples Center
    
    Staples Center is a multi-purpose arena in Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, United States. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex....
     in Los Angeles. Singer Christina Aguilera
    Christina Aguilera
    
    Christina Mar?a Aguilera is an American pop music/contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#1990s revival from 1993?1994....
     performed "It's Man's Man's Man's World" a tribute to the Godfather of Soul James Brown
    James Brown
    
    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
    . The stunning performance was the talk of the show; Aguilera also took home her fifth Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance In addition to a successful music year, Carrie Underwood
    Carrie Underwood
    
    Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the American Idol of American Idol, and has become a Music recording sales certification#List of international sales certification thresholds recording artist and a multiple Grammy Award winner....
     became the first American Idol
    American Idol
    
    American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
     contestant ever to win the Grammy for Best New Artist.
  • February 16 — American Rock band Audioslave
    Audioslave
    
    Audioslave was an American hard rock Supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of ex-Soundgarden frontman and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk ....
     break up after Chris Cornell
    Chris Cornell
    
    Chris Cornell is an United States rock music musician best known as the lead singer and singer-songwriter for rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave , and for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions ....
     leaves band because of "Musical Differences".
  • February 20 — Christina Aguilera
    Christina Aguilera
    
    Christina Mar?a Aguilera is an American pop music/contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#1990s revival from 1993?1994....
     began her second leg of her Back to Basics Tour
    Back to Basics Tour
    
    The Back to Basics Tour is the fourth concert tour by United States singer-songwriter, Christina Aguilera. The tour supported her third studio album, Back to Basics ....
     in the US. The tour would go on to become the highest grossing tour for a female artist in 2007.
  • February 27 — American rock parody band Tenacious D
    Tenacious D
    
    Tenacious D is a Satire rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of musicians and actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass .Tenacious D formed in 1994 when the members performed as an acoustic duo....
     released their movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
    Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
    
    Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is a comedy/rock musical set in the 1990s, starring Tenacious D, an United States satirical rock music duo that features Jack Black and Kyle Gass....
     on DVD.
  • February 28 — it was announced that the American early 80s punk band Circle Jerks
    Circle Jerks
    
    The Circle Jerks are an American punk band, formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. It was formed by Black Flag 's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson....
     had released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their page. Rumors are swirling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities
    Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities
    
    Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities is the sixth studio album by the Circle Jerks, which was released in 1995.Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities was the band's only full-length studio recording since their 1989 disbandment and 1994 reformation, and also their only release on a major label....
    .
• March
• March 1 — Angela Hacker
  Angela Hacker
  
  Angela Hacker is an American country music singer. In 2007, she was the winner of the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. Her brother Zac finished second the same year....
   was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star
  Nashville Star
  
  Nashville Star is a reality television television program. It most recently aired during the Summer of 2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network....
  . By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records
  Warner Bros. Records
  
  Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
  .
• March 12 — Matchbook Romance
  Matchbook Romance
  
  Matchbook Romance was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie , New York and were formed in 1997.They were signed to Epitaph Records. They released two full length albums and one EP....
   announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.
• March 12 — Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
  Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
  
  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was a highly influential hip hop group composed of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Kid Creole , Cowboy, Scorpio and Raheim....
  , R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  
  R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  , The Ronettes
  The Ronettes
  
  The Ronettes were a 1960s girl group from New York City, best known for their work with record producer Phil Spector. They consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett ; her sister, the late Estelle Bennett; and their cousin Nedra Talley....
  , Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
   and Van Halen
  Van Halen
  
  Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
   inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
  .
• March 16 — Bad Religion
  Bad Religion
  
  Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
   revealed that their new album would be called New Maps of Hell
  New Maps of Hell
  
  New Maps of Hell is Bad Religion's fourteenth full-length studio album , which was released on July 10, 2007. It celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, although the band had been around for twenty-seven years....
  .
• March 21 — Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki
  Yoshiki
  
  is a musician, songwriter and Record producer. Throughout his professional career usually referred to by his given name only, he is primarily known for co-founding the popular rock band X Japan, for which he plays drums and piano, along with writing most of the music....
   after ten years.
• March 25 — Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
   plays Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden
  
  Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
   for the 60th time to celebrate his 60th birthday. With the concert, John set the record for most performances by an artist at the venue. Longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin
  Bernie Taupin
  
  Bernie Taupin is an England lyricist, singer and poet, most famous for his collaboration with Elton John....
   made an appearance, as well as celebrities Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg
  
  Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
   and Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  
  Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
   and former President Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
  . John performed songs from his back catalogue, including "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
  Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
  
  Ballad of a Well-Known Gun is a song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It is the opening track off his third album, "Tumbleweed Connection" released in 1970....
  " and "Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers
  
  Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
  ", some of which, the band hadn't played in nearly 30 years.
• April
• April 7 — Soulster
  Soul music
  
  Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
   Joss Stone
  Joss Stone
  
  Joss Stone is an English born British soul music and contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and actor. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist....
  's third studio album Introducing Joss Stone
  Introducing Joss Stone
  
  Introducing Joss Stone is the third studio album by English soul music singer Joss Stone, released in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2007 by Relentless Records....
   debuts at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200
  Billboard 200
  
  The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
  , becoming the highest debut entry by a British female solo artist on the U.S. chart; this outdid the record previously held by Amy Winehouse
  Amy Winehouse
  
  Amy Jade Winehouse is an England singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul music, jazz, rock & roll, ska and rhythm and blues....
  's Back to Black
  Back to Black
  
  Back to Black is the second studio album by England soul music/Jazz music singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released in October 2006 in music on Island Records....
  , which had debuted at number seven on the tally the previous week.
• April 15 — Cluster
  Cluster (band)
  
  Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
   reunites for first concert since 1996
  1996 in music
  
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996....
  . A tour of Europe followed.
• April 17 — Arcturus
  Arcturus (band)
  
  Arcturus was an avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. In 1990, the band changed their name to Arcturus , likely after the Behenian fixed stars Arcturus....
   officially announced that they would be splitting up due to the fact that they were too busy with other matters to focus on progressing with the band.
• April 19 — Joey Jordison
  Joey Jordison
  
  Nathan Jonas Jordison , also known by his number #1 or Joey, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is a co-founder and the primary drummer for the Grammy Award-winning band Slipknot , as well as the guitarist and backup-vocalist for horror punk Supergroup Murderdolls....
   of Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
   becomes a Session Member of Korn
  Korn
  
  'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
  .
• April 22 — Patrick Wolf
  Patrick Wolf
  
  Patrick Wolf is an England singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, organ , Appalachian dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola, and violin....
   told fans on his message board that he was retiring from the music business. However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus
• April 23 — Bevan Davies
  Bevan Davies
  
  Bevan Davies is a hard rock drummer. He got his start with the hard rock/Heavy metal music band Still Rain from Fayetteville, North Carolina in December of 1989....
   replaces Will Hunt
  Will Hunt
  
  William Martin "Will" Hunt is a drummer who plays in the rock and metal genres. He is currently in the band Dark New Day. Hunt was in Skrape until 2004....
   due to his commitments of Dark New Day
  Dark New Day
  
  Dark New Day is an United States hard rock band that formed in 1995, disbanded, and re-formed in late 2004....
   & Vince Neil
  Vince Neil
  
  Vincent Neil Wharton is the lead singer for United States glam metal band M?tley Cr?e....
   as the other replacement drummer for Nick Oshiro
  Nick Oshiro
  
  Nick Oshiro is an United States musician, best known as the current drummer of the industrial metal band Static-X. He has previously played with the South African hard rock band Seether....
   of Static-X
  Static-X
  
  Static-X is an industrial metal band. Formed in 1994, they are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released five albums, their most recent being Cannibal , which was released on April 3, 2007....
  .
• April 27 – April 29 — Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
  Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
  
  The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival organized by Goldenvoice held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, California....
   in Coachella, CA
• May
• May 8 — The rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  
  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
   come up with Strength and Loyalty album since their last one in 2002.
• May 11 — Guitarist Chickn posted a message on MySpace
  MySpace
  
  MySpace is a social network service website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally....
  , confirming that D.I.
  D.I.
  
  D.I. is a Southern California Punk rock band featuring ex-The Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals. Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew , left the original Mike Ness crew....
   would finally release the long-awaited first reunion album On the Western Front
  On the Western Front
  
  On the Western Front is D.I.'s sixth full-length, which was released on August 14, 2007. It is the first proper studio album D.I. has released since their 1995 hiatus and 1997 reunion....
   on August 7. This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's State of Shock
  State of Shock
  
  "State of Shock" is a 1984 hit single by The Jackson 5 featuring frontman Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger."State of Shock" was the biggest hit from The Jacksons' Victory album, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs....
  .
• May 12 — The Eurovision Song Contest 2007
  Eurovision Song Contest 2007
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was won by Serbia and was held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from 10 May to 12 May....
   was held in Helsinki
  Helsinki
  
  Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
  , Finland. It was won by Serbia
  Serbia
  
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
  .
• May 15 — Minutes to Midnight
  Minutes to Midnight (album)
  
  Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American Rock music band Linkin Park that was released, depending on location, between May 9 and May 18, 2007....
   by Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  
  Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
   sales more than 600,000 copies in the USA and more than 1,000,000 worldwide and is the third most selling album in the first week.
• May 16 – May 20 — The European Festival of Youth Choirs
  European Festival of Youth Choirs
  
  The European Festival of Youth Choirs is a triennial international festival for youth choirs mainly from Europe. It will be held next time in 2010 in Basel....
   is currently being held in Basel
  Basel
  
  Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city . With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area , Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area....
  , Switzerland.
• May 19 — The Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
   radio station KROQ
  KROQ-FM
  
  KROQ-FM is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting on 106.7 Frequency Modulation to the greater Los Angeles area....
   airs the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast
  KROQ Weenie Roast
  
  Weenie Roast is a multi-artist alternative rock concert, presented annually by the Los Angeles, California, United States radio station KROQ, beginning in 1993....
  . Bands that played there were: Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  
  Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
  , Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  
  Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
  , Interpol
  Interpol
  
  The International Criminal Police Organization, better known by its Electrical telegraph Interpol, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation....
  , Queens of the Stone Age
  Queens of the Stone Age
  
  Queens of the Stone Age is a hard rock music band from Palm Desert, California, California, United States, formed in 1997.Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy music which Homme described as 'robot rock', saying that he "wanted to create a heavy...
  , 30 Seconds to Mars
  30 Seconds to Mars
  
  30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock music band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band features actor Jared Leto as vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter....
  , The Bravery
  The Bravery
  
  The Bravery is an United States Rock music band from City of New York that consists of Sam Endicott, John Conway, Anthony Burulcich, Michael Zakarin, and Mike Hindert....
  , Silversun Pickups
  Silversun Pickups
  
  Silversun Pickups is an United States indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, signed to Dangerbird Records, and headed by Brian Aubert. They released their debut Pikul EP in July of 2005, and their full length album Carnavas on July 26, 2006....
  , The Killers ? Incubus
  Incubus (band)
  
  Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
  , Korn
  Korn
  
  'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
  , Bad Religion
  Bad Religion
  
  Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
  , Rise Against
  Rise Against
  
  Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. Their current line-up consists of four members: Tim McIlrath , Joe Principe , Brandon Barnes , and Zach Blair ....
  , Tim Armstrong
  Tim Armstrong
  
  Timothy Lockwood Armstrong is an United States musician and songwriter best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid , Operation Ivy , Dance Hall Crashers, and the Transplants ....
  , Peter Bjorn and John
  Peter Bjorn and John
  
  Peter, Bjorn and John is a Sweden indie rock Musical ensemble, formed in Stockholm in 1999 and named after the first names of the band's current members: Peter Mor?n , Bj?rn Yttling and John Eriksson ....
  , Tiger Army
  Tiger Army
  
  Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band that was formed in 1996 in Berkeley, California. ...
  , and Plain White T's
  Plain White T's
  
  Plain White T's is a rock music band, originating from Villa Park, Illinois. They are best known for "Hey There Delilah", which charted high in many countries....
  .
• May 23 — Jordin Sparks
  Jordin Sparks
  
  Jordin Brianna Sparks is an American Pop music/contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and plus-size model. She rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol, which led to her reception of an American Music Award and 51st Grammy Awards nominations in 2008....
   of Arizona
  Arizona
  
  The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
   wins Season 6 of American Idol
  American Idol
  
  American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
  .
• May 25 – May 28 — Salzburg Festival
  Salzburg Festival
  
  The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
  
• May 26 – May 27 — Sasquatch! Music Festival
  Sasquatch! Music Festival
  
  Sasquatch! Music Festival is a music festival held annually at the The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. It is presented by the House of Blues....
  
• May 30 – June 5 — The Peel Bay Festival Isle of Man
  Isle of Man
  
  The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....
   TT
  TT
  
  TT, Tt or tt may refer to:...
  
• June
• June 4 — Yoshiki announces that X Japan
  X Japan
  
  is a Japan band founded in 1982 by Toshi and Yoshiki . Originally named X , the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood ....
   would reunite for a new tour and a single.
• June 8 – June 10 — Download Festival
  Download Festival
  
  The Download Festival is a three day music festival held annually at Donington Park . It takes place at the end of spring, and is owned and managed by Live Nation....
  
• June 14 — Daft Punk
  Daft Punk
  
  Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . After Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house music movement in France, other artists such as Air , Cassius , and Dimitri from Paris began to receive a similar amount of attention....
   came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the French capital.
• June 22 – June 23 — Radio Expres Festival - the first music festival of Slovak radio station Rádio Expres
  Rádio Expres
  
  R?dio Expres is a Slovak radio that broadcasts from Bratislava, Slovak Republic. It was launched in 2000. It is the most listened radio in Slovakia....
  
• June 22 – June 25 — Glastonbury Festival
  Glastonbury Festival
  
  The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is one of the largest music and performing arts festivals in the world....
  
• June 28 — Spice Girls
  Spice Girls
  
  The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell....
   announce their reunion at the O2 in London in a press conference televised worldwide.
• June 29 – July 1 — Heineken Open'er Festival took place in Babie Doly military airport, Gdynia
  Gdynia
  
  Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport at Gdansk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdansk and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity...
  , Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
  , Björk
  Björk
  
  Bj?rk Gu?mundsd?ttir is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, actor and record producer, whose work includes seven solo albums and two film soundtracks....
  , Muse
  Muse
  
  File:Muse reading Louvre CA2220.jpgThe Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature and the arts....
  , The Roots
  The Roots
  
  The Roots is a Grammy award-winning United States hip hop music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals....
  , Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  
  Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  , Bloc Party
  Bloc Party
  
  Bloc Party are a UK indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong . Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Gang of Four and The Strokes....
  , LCD Soundsystem
  LCD Soundsystem
  
  LCD Soundsystem is the musical project of producer James Murphy , co-founder of dance-punk label DFA Records. The music of LCD Soundsystem is a mix of dance music and punk rock, along with elements of disco and other styles....
  , Groove Armada
  Groove Armada
  
  Groove Armada are a big beat duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay from England. They are now primarily based in London, and continue to produce and record music as well as hosting semi-regular club nights in London and an annual London festival under the Lovebox banner....
  , Dizzee Rascal
  Dizzee Rascal
  
  Dylan Mills , known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and a record producer. His music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional Hip hop music, grime and ragga, with extremely eclectic samples and more exotic styles....
  , Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier
  
  Laurent Garnier is a France techno music producer and disc jockey. Laurent Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span classic deep house and Detroit techno, the harder side of acid/trance music and jazzy tracks as well....
  , Crazy P, The Strike Boys, Freeform Five
  Freeform Five
  
  Freeform Five is London based Dj/producer/song-writer Anu Pillai. It was his much admired remix of Isolee?s ?Beau Mot Plage? in 1999 that alerted many to this production outfit....
  .
• July
• July 1 — The Concert for Diana
  Concert for Diana
  
  Concert for Diana was a concert held at the new Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday; 31 August that year brought the 10th anniversary of Death of Diana, Princess of Wales....
   in honour of Lady Diana's 46th birthday takes place in the Wembley Stadium
  Wembley Stadium
  
  The original Wembley Stadium was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007....
   in London. Performing acts included Duran Duran
  Duran Duran
  
  Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
  , Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  , Fergie, Joss Stone
  Joss Stone
  
  Joss Stone is an English born British soul music and contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and actor. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist....
  , Kanye West
  Kanye West
  
  Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  , Nelly Furtado
  Nelly Furtado
  
  Nelly Kim Furtado is a Grammy Award-winning Canada singer of Portuguese people ancestry. She is a singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress....
  , Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  , and Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  
  Sir Thomas John Woodward Officer of the British Empire , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, particularly noted for his powerful voice and wide vocal range....
  .
• July 7 — Live Earth
  Live Earth
  
  Live Earth is an annual event developed to combat global warming....
  , worldwide series of concerts to initiate action against global warming
  Global warming
  
  Global warming is the increase in the Instrumental temperature record of the Earth's near-surface air and the oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation....
  . Acts include: Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  
  Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
  , Kelly Clarkson
  Kelly Clarkson
  
  Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly-publicized American Idol of the television series American Idol in 2002....
  , Alicia Keys
  Alicia Keys
  
  Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American contemporary R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, pianist, cello and actor....
  , Kanye West
  Kanye West
  
  Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  , Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  
  Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  , Fall Out Boy
  Fall Out Boy
  
  Fall Out Boy is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of Patrick Stump , Joe Trohman , Pete Wentz , and Andy Hurley ....
  , Shakira
  Shakira
  
  Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....
  , John Mayer, Rihanna
  Rihanna
  
  Robyn Rihanna Fenty , known as Rihanna , is a Barbados singer, fashion model, and former beauty queen. She also serves as the cultural ambassador for Barbados....
  , Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
  , Duran Duran
  Duran Duran
  
  Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
  , Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  , Foo Fighters
  Foo Fighters
  
  Foo Fighters is an American Rock music band formed by singer/guitarist/drummer Dave Grohl in 1995. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994....
  , Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
  Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  , Black Eyed Peas, Spinal Tap
  Spinal tap
  
  Spinal tap can refer to:*Spinal tap, colloquial term for a lumbar puncture*Spinal Tap, a fictional hard rock band*This Is Spinal Tap, a mockumentary portraying the same band...
  , Jack Johnson
  Jack Johnson (musician)
  
  Jack Hody Johnson is a Hawaiian-born singer-songwriter, musician, filmmaker, and surfer who has achieved commercial success and a dedicated following, after the release of his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales in 2001....
  , Lenny Kravitz
  Lenny Kravitz
  
  Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....
  , Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
   as well as the reunited bands The Police
  The Police
  
  The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
  , Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  , The Smashing Pumpkins
  The Smashing Pumpkins
  
  The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
   and Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  .
• July 7 – July 8 — T In The Park
  T in the Park
  
  T in the Park is a major music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents....
  , Oxegen 2007
  Oxegen
  
  Oxegen is an annual music festival held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken. Now Ireland's biggest festival, it was previously called Witnness, which ran from 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness....
  
• July 17 — Joe Payne
  Joe Payne
  
  Joseph "Joe" Payne was born in Tampa, Florida in 1984. He is a Heavy metal music bassist and guitarist. Joe Payne currently plays bass in the Heavy metal music band Divine Heresy along with ex-Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares, ex-Vital Remains and Hate Eternal drummer Tim Yeung....
   joins Divine Heresy
  Divine Heresy
  
  Divine Heresy is an United States Heavy metal music band formed by founder of Fear Factory, guitarist Dino Cazares. Although the band's origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially formed in 2006....
  .
• July 27 — Atom Willard leaves The Offspring
  The Offspring
  
  The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
   and is replaced by former Face to Face
  Face to Face (punk band)
  
  Face to Face is a punk rock/Melodic Hardcore band from Victorville, California, California formed in 1991 by frontman Trever Keith.Originally known as "Zero Tolerance", Keith had been the only constant member of the band during their years of touring and recording albums....
   and Saves the Day
  Saves the Day
  
  Saves the Day is an american band that was formed in 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey. They have released 6 studio albums, 4 EP's and a compilation album....
   drummer Pete Parada
  Pete Parada
  
  Pete Parada is an United States drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. Parada's drumming career began in 1996 when he joined Steel Prophet and recorded one album with them a year later....
  .
• August
• August 4 – August 11 — The Three Choirs Festival
  Three Choirs Festival
  
  The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival, held each August alternately at the cathedrals of the Three Counties, and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme....
   will be held at Gloucester
  Gloucester
  
  Gloucester is a city status in the United Kingdom, Non-metropolitan district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England region of England....
  .
• August 11 – August 12 — The eighth annual Summer Sonic Festival
  Summer Sonic Festival
  
  The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-days rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and near Tokyo. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Tokyo the following day and vice versa....
   was held. Bands that played there were: Arctic Monkeys
  Arctic Monkeys
  
  Arctic Monkeys are an England indie rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders ....
  , Avenged Sevenfold
  Avenged Sevenfold
  
  Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down ", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day ." The band's success followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
  , Bloc Party
  Bloc Party
  
  Bloc Party are a UK indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong . Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Gang of Four and The Strokes....
  , The Horrors
  The Horrors
  
  The Horrors are a British garage rock band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached #37 on the UK Charts, on 5 March 2007....
  , Interpol
  Interpol (band)
  
  Interpol are an American band formed in 1997 in New York City.The band's line-up is Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino ....
  , The Offspring
  The Offspring
  
  The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
  , Sum 41
  Sum 41
  
  Sum 41 is a Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble from Ajax, Ontario. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Cone McCaslin , and Steve Jocz ....
  , Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
   and We Are Scientists
  We Are Scientists
  
  We Are Scientists is an United States rock band, formed in 2000, featuring Keith Murray , Chris Cain and previously Michael Tapper . In their own words, the band creates "rock music of the thoughtful, sometimes epic, often loud, vaguely danceable, implicitly humanist variety"....
  .
• August 24 – August 26 — Carling Weekend—Reading and Leeds Festivals
  Reading and Leeds Festivals
  
  The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading, Berkshire and Leeds in the United Kingdom and are run by Festival Republic....
  
• August 31 – September 2 — Electric Picnic 2007
  Electric Picnic
  
  Electric Picnic is an annual Boutique Manufacturing arts and music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in the Republic of Ireland....
  
• August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August) — Bryn Terfel
  Bryn Terfel
  
  Bryn Terfel Jones Order of the British Empire is a Wales bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Leporello, but he has expanded his repertoire to include heavier roles, especially those by Richard Wagner....
  's Faenol Festival
  Faenol Festival
  
  The Faenol Festival is a music festival organised by Wales singer Bryn Terfel and held annually on the Vaynol , near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, north Wales....
  
• September
• September — Meegs Rascon of Glass Piñata states a possibility of a Coal Chamber
  Coal Chamber
  
  Coal Chamber was an United States nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992....
   reunion
  Reunion
  
  Reunion may refer to:...
  .
• September 3 — My Chemical Romance
  My Chemical Romance
  
  My Chemical Romance is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The band consists of five members that are Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar....
   lead singer, Gerard Way
  Gerard Way
  
  Gerard Arthur Way is an United States musician and comic book writer who has served as lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance since its formation in 2001....
  , marries Mindless Self Indulgence
  Mindless Self Indulgence
  
  Mindless Self Indulgence is an American electropunk band, formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including electronica, Punk rock and industrial metal....
   bassist, Lyn-Z, backstage at Projekt Revolution
  Projekt Revolution
  
  Projekt Revolution is a music festival hosted by Linkin Park, bringing artists of various different genres of music together. Linkin Park started Projekt Revolution in the year 2002 with just one stage....
   in Denver, Colorado
  Colorado
  
  The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
  
• September 4 — Small Faces and Don Arden
  Don Arden
  
  Don Arden was an English music management, agent and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath....
   plaque unveiled at 52-55 Carnaby Street
  Carnaby Street
  
  Carnaby Street is a Car-free zone shopping street in London, United Kingdom, located in the 'Carnaby' area within the Soho district, near Oxford Street, just to the east of Regent Street....
  , London, England
• September 8 — "Weird Al" Yankovic
  "Weird Al" Yankovic
  
  Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian and satire. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts....
   performs his 1,000th live show at Idaho Falls, Idaho
  Idaho Falls, Idaho
  
  Idaho Falls is the county seat and largest city of Bonneville County, Idaho, Idaho, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the population of Idaho Falls was 50,730, with a metro population of 119,396....
  .
• September 9 — Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica
  
  Sonata Arctica is a Finland power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. Their later works contain some elements typical of progressive metal....
   will play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
• September 9 — Britney Spears
  Britney Spears
  
  'Britney Jean Spears' is a Grammy Awards-winning American pop music singer, dancer, actress, and glamour model.Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#199...
   opened the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards
  2007 MTV Video Music Awards
  
  The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, honoring the best music videos from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, took place September 9, in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Palms....
   held in the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• September 12 – October 1 — Prague Autumn International Music Festival
  Prague Autumn International Music Festival
  
  Prague Autumn International Music Festival is the second largest classical music festival in Prague held annually in September. It is organised under the auspices of V?clav Klaus, president of the Czech republic and is co-produced by the City of Prague....
  
• September 20 – September 23 — 4th annual Decibel Festival
  Decibel Festival
  
  Decibel Festival is a four-day annual music and arts festival started in 2003 in Seattle. Decibel is dedicated to live electronic music, visual...
  , Seattle
• September 22 – September 29 — 35th North Wales International Music Festival
  North Wales International Music Festival
  
  The North Wales International Music Festival is a classical music festival founded by William Mathias in 1972 and held annually in the town of St Asaph, Wales....
   will be held at St Asaph
  St Asaph
  
  St Asaph is a town on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales. In the United Kingdom Census 2001 it had a population of 3,491.The town of St Asaph is surrounded by countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd....
  .
• September 24 — Patrick Watson
  Patrick Watson (band)
  
  Patrick Watson is the name of the Canadian indie rock band that consists of Patrick Watson , Simon Angell, Robbie Kuster, and Mishka Stein. Their blend of cabaret pop and indie rock has been compared to Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley....
  's album Close to Paradise
  Close to Paradise
  
  Close to Paradise is the second album by Patrick Watson , released on September 26, 2006. On September 24, 2007, the album won the Polaris Music Prize, after reaching the finals alongside such other albums as Neon Bible , Ashtray Rock , Woke Myself Up , and The Reminder ....
   wins the Canadian Polaris Music Prize
  Polaris Music Prize
  
  The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canada album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label....
   for 2007.
• September 25 - Keyshia Cole
  Keyshia Cole
  
  Keyshia Cole is a Grammy-nominated American Contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, and record producer known for her soulful voice. Cole cites singers Mary J....
   released her sophomore album, Just like You (Keyshia Cole album)
  Just like You (Keyshia Cole album)
  
  Just Like You is the second studio album by United States Contemporary R&B singer Keyshia Cole, It was released first on July 8, 2007, but pushed back to the second released was on August 7, 2007 and then pushed back to the last release date on September 25, 2007 on Geffen Records....
  , and The Cheetah Girls' EP album, TCG
  TCG (album)
  
  TCG is the official debut studio album of The Cheetah Girls . The album was released on Hollywood Records on September 25, 2007....
   was released.

• October
• Placebo's
  Placebo (band)
  
  Placebo are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in London in 1994, consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released five studio albums, six Extended plays and twenty-seven singles....
   drummer Steve Hewitt
  Steve Hewitt
  
  Steve Hewitt was the drummer for the band Placebo between mid-1996 and October 2007. He was born in Northwich, Cheshire, England. Prior to joining Placebo, Hewitt was a member of various bands such as Electric Crayons, K-Klass, The Mystic Deckchairs, Boo Radleys and Breed....
   left the band, citing "personal and musical differences" as the cause of the split.
• October 1 - Jonny Greenwood
  Jonny Greenwood
  
  Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of England alternative rock Band Radiohead....
  , the guitarist of Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
   announces on the band's site that they will release the new album In Rainbows
  In Rainbows
  
  In Rainbows is the seventh album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007....
   in ten days, which consumers could pay whatever price they wanted for.
• October 4 — Fred Mascherino
  Fred Mascherino
  
  Frederick Paul Mascherino is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and back-up/co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday....
   announces his departure from Taking Back Sunday
  Taking Back Sunday
  
  Taking Back Sunday is an United States Rock music band from Amityville, New York, Long Island, New York, New York, formed in 1999. The current members are vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and back-up vocalist Matthew Fazzi, guitarist Eddie Reyes, drummer Mark O'Connell, and bassist Matt Rubano....
  , to pursue his solo career called The Color Fred
  The Color Fred
  
  The Color Fred is a band headed by former Taking Back Sunday guitarist and backup singer Fred Mascherino. The band got their name by a poll taken on the internet and The Color Fred was declared the fans favorite name....
  .
• October 9 - Hard rock band Alter Bridge
  Alter Bridge
  
  Alter Bridge is an United States post-grunge/alternative metal band based in Orlando, Florida, Florida . The band was formed in 2004 by Mark Tremonti , Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips , all former members of Creed , with Myles Kennedy , formerly of The Mayfield Four....
   releases their sophomore album Blackbird
  Blackbird (album)
  
  Blackbird is the second album of rock band Alter Bridge. The album was released on October 9, 2007. The first single, "Rise Today", was released on July 30, 2007....
  . They are currently on tour in support of the release.
• Godsmack
  Godsmack
  
  Godsmack is an American heavy metal music band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band comprises founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill and drummer Shannon Larkin....
   goes on Hiatus.
• October 18 — X Japan official site announces that the band will perform the song "I.V." (main theme of Saw IV
  Saw IV
  
  Saw IV is the fourth installment in the Saw . The film was released in Australia on October 25, 2007, and in the United States on October 26, 2007....
  ) on October 22.
• October 22 — X Japan performs for the first time in ten years and announces a concert in Tokyo in spring, followed by a world tour.
• October 27 — Interpol
  Interpol (band)
  
  Interpol are an American band formed in 1997 in New York City.The band's line-up is Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino ....
  , Yo La Tengo
  Yo La Tengo
  
  Yo La Tengo is an United States indie rock band based in Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey. With more than 15 albums released since their formation in 1984, they have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene....
  , The Whitest Boy Alive
  The Whitest Boy Alive
  
  The Whitest Boy Alive is a musical group based in Berlin. The band comprises singer/guitarist Erlend ?ye, who is also a member of the band Kings of Convenience, bassist Marcin ?z, drummer Sebastian Maschat, and Daniel Nentwig on Rhodes piano and Crumar....
  , The Horrors
  The Horrors
  
  The Horrors are a British garage rock band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached #37 on the UK Charts, on 5 March 2007....
  , TeddyBears
  Teddybears
  
  Teddybears is a Sweden band formed in 1991, known for mixing pop, rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, punk and many other genres.History...
   and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
• October 27 — 10th Annual electronic dance music festival Monster massive
  Monster massive
  
  Monster Massive is an annual electronic music festival held the weekend of, or the weekend prior to Halloween night. The festival is Halloween themed and many of the attendees dress in costume....
  , held at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
  Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
  
  The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multipurpose sports arena in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park ....
  .
• October 23 — Carrie Underwood
  Carrie Underwood
  
  Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the American Idol of American Idol, and has become a Music recording sales certification#List of international sales certification thresholds recording artist and a multiple Grammy Award winner....
   released her sophomore album Carnival Ride
  Carnival Ride
  
  Carnival Ride is the second studio album from American country pop artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States on October 23, 2007....
  . To this date, the album has gone 3 times platinum.
• October 30 — The Backstreet Boys sixth studio album Unbreakable
  Unbreakable (Backstreet Boys album)
  
  Unbreakable is the Backstreet Boys' sixth studio album. It was released on October 24, 2007 in Japan and October 30 in the United States by Jive Records....
    that without Kevin Richardson
  Kevin Richardson
  
  Kevin Richardson is the name of:* Kevin Richardson , former member of the Backstreet Boys* Kevin Richardson , English former soccer player* Kevin Richardson , college running back...
   , who made the decision to pursue other interests, and this album would include various music styles, combining their earlier late-1990s sound with their more recent guitar-driven pop rock sound.
• October 30 — Britney Spears
  Britney Spears
  
  'Britney Jean Spears' is a Grammy Awards-winning American pop music singer, dancer, actress, and glamour model.Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#199...
   releases her highly anticipated fifth studio album Blackout.

• November
• November 1 — The MTV Europe Music Awards 2007
  MTV Europe Music Awards 2007
  
  The MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 took place on November 1, 2007 in Munich, Germany at the Olympiahalle. Nominations of the world were announced on September 2007....
   takes place at the Olympiahalle
  Olympiahalle
  
  Olympiahalle is a multi-purpose arena in Munich, Germany, part of the Olympiapark, Munich and close to the Olympiastadion Olympic Stadium, Munich....
   in Munich
  Munich
  
  Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
  , Germany
• November 2 — Drummer of death metal band Decapitated, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, dies at 23 due to complications after automobile accident in Russia.
• November 7 — Sevendust
  Sevendust
  
  Sevendust is an American hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. They were originally signed to TVT Records, but then released their fifth album with Winedark Records in the US, and Roadrunner Records overseas....
   announces they will head into the studio by the end of November to work on their 7th studio album entiled The 7th Chapter and gave a release date being March 4, 2008.
• November 10 — Powerman 5000
  Powerman 5000
  
  Powerman 5000 is a Boston-based rock music band formed in 1991. Frontman Spider One is the younger brother of Rob Zombie....
   goes on Hiatus.
• November 11 — American popstar Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  's Box Set album Hung Up: The Album Collection hits stores worldwide. Also, Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  
  Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
   releases her first album since she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer
  Breast cancer
  
  Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the Cell of the breast in women and men. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer after lung cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer death....
   in May 2005, X
  X (Kylie Minogue album)
  
  X is a 2007 album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is her tenth studio album release, her first release since 2004's greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie, and her first studio album since 2003's Body Language....
  , which features the first two singles "2 Hearts
  2 Hearts
  
  "2 Hearts" is a pop rock song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her tenth studio album, X . The song is a cover version of a track originally recorded by Kish Mauve, who also record producer Minogue's version....
  " and "Promises," which both debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts.
• November 12 — OneRepublic
  OneRepublic
  
  OneRepublic is a Grammy-nominated United States rock band formed in Colorado. After a few years of moderate success, they have drawn mainstream attention with the release of their singles "Apologize ," and "Stop and Stare"....
   breaks Top 40 Radio Airplay record with "Apologize".
• November 20 — OneRepublic
  OneRepublic
  
  OneRepublic is a Grammy-nominated United States rock band formed in Colorado. After a few years of moderate success, they have drawn mainstream attention with the release of their singles "Apologize ," and "Stop and Stare"....
   releases their debut album, 'Dreaming Out Loud
  Dreaming Out Loud (OneRepublic album)
  
  Dreaming Out Loud is the debut album by American rock band OneRepublic. It was produced by Greg Wells, with two songs produced by singer Ryan Tedder, and was engineered and mixed by Joe Zook....
  .
• November 24 — Hawthorne Heights
  Hawthorne Heights
  
  Hawthorne Heights is an United States Emo#Third wave band formed in Dayton, Ohio in June, 2001. Their line-up currently consists of vocalist and guitarist JT Woodruff, lead guitarist Micah Carli, bassist and vocalist Matt Ridenour and drummer Eron Bucciarelli....
   guitarist/backing vocalist Casey Calvert dies in his sleep at 26.
• November 25 — Natalie Gauci
  Natalie Gauci
  
  Natalie Gauci is an Australian singer of Italy and Malta descent. Gauci undertook music tuition at the Victorian College of the Arts, forming her own band in which she played gigs around Melbourne, while also working as a music teacher....
   became the winner of Australian Idol 2007 at the Sydney Opera House
  Sydney Opera House
  
  The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Denmark architect J?rn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour....
  , beating Matt Corby
  Matt Corby
  
  Matthew John "Matt" Corby is an Australian singer, who was the runner-up to Natalie Gauci on the fifth season of Australian Idol in 2007.. His surname comes from the United Kingdom town of Corby....
   for the title. Instead of being Number 1, Gauci's winning single "Here I Am
  Here I Am (Natalie Gauci song)
  
  "Here I Am" is the debut single for 2007 Australian Idol winner Natalie Gauci, written by Lindy Robbins and Tom Leonard. This single was performed by the final two contestants - Gauci and Matt Corby - during the penultimate episode of Australian Idol 2007....
  " will now debut at Number 2 to enter the Australian Idol record which marked the very first Australian Idol single not making it to Number 1. On that week The Number 1 single was Timbaland
  Timbaland
  
  Timothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapping, and singer. Timbaland has produced albums and singles for a number of artists from the mid-1990s to the present day....
   with OneRepublic
  OneRepublic
  
  OneRepublic is a Grammy-nominated United States rock band formed in Colorado. After a few years of moderate success, they have drawn mainstream attention with the release of their singles "Apologize ," and "Stop and Stare"....
   with "Apologize
  Apologize (song)
  
  "Apologize" is a song written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder for the band's 2007 debut album Dreaming Out Loud . According to the band's MySpace site, the song "explores the personal pain of multiple relationships gone awry and the necessity of moving on"....
  " coupled with Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  's "Hung Up
  Hung Up
  
  "Hung Up" is a Pop music song written by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , Stuart Price, Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus, and produced by Madonna and Price....
  " staying at #1 for the record-breaking 7 week run.
• November 27 — Harmonia
  Harmonia (band)
  
  Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster and later included British ambient music artist Brian Eno....
   reunited for their first concert since 1976
  1976 in music
  
  Events...
   in Berlin.

• Lera Auerbach
  Lera Auerbach
  
  Lera Auerbach is one of the most widely performed composers of her generation.She was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural Mountains bordering Siberia....
   - Symphony No. 1 "Chimera"
• Nigel Hess
  Nigel Hess
  
  Nigel Hess is a British composer best known for his television, theatre and film soundtracks, including the theme tunes to Wycliffe , Dangerfield , Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Ladies in Lavender....
   - Piano Concerto
• Mohammed Fairouz - Symphonic Aphorisms

• Unsuk Chin
  Unsuk Chin
  
  Unsuk Chin is a female Korean composer of european classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Sch?nberg Prize in 2005....
   - Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (opera)
  
  Alice in Wonderland is a 2007 operatic adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll....
  
• Ryan Conarro, William Todd Hunt - Arctic Magic Flute
  Arctic Magic Flute
  
  Arctic Magic Flute is an adaptation, sung in English, of Mozart opera The Magic Flute by Ryan Conarro, Joyce Parry Moore and William Todd Hunt, setting the action in northern Alaska at an unspecified post-apocalyptic future date....
  
• Victor Davies
  Victor Davies
  
  Victor Albert Davies is an award winning Canadian composer, pianist, and Conducting....
   - Transit of Venus
  Transit of Venus (opera)
  
  Transit of Venus is an opera in three acts by Victor Davies. The English language libretto is by Canada playwright Maureen Hunter based on her Transit of Venus first produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in November 1992 in Canada....
  
• Anthony Davis
  Anthony Davis (composer)
  
  Anthony Davis , better known as Tony Davis, is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music....
   - Wakonda's Dream
  Wakonda's Dream
  
  Wakonda's Dream is an English-language opera written by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa. It premiered March 7, 2007 at Omaha, Nebraska's Orpheum Theatre ....
  
• Jonathan Dove
  Jonathan Dove
  
  Jonathan Dove is a United Kingdom composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera , including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Richard Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen for CBTO....
   - The Adventures of Pinocchio
  The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera)
  
  This article is about the Jonathan Dove opera. For the Carlo Collodi novel see: The Adventures of Pinocchio. For other works with this title see: The Adventures of Pinocchio ...
  
• Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  
  Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
   - Appomattox
  Appomattox (opera)
  
  Appomattox is an opera in English language based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton....
  
• Ricky Ian Gordon
  Ricky Ian Gordon
  
  Ricky Ian Gordon is an American Musical theatre composer and lyricist....
   - The Grapes of Wrath
  The Grapes of Wrath (opera)
  
  The Grapes of Wrath is an opera in three acts composed by Ricky Ian Gordon to a libretto by Michael Korie based on John Steinbeck?s 1939 The Grapes of Wrath....
  
• Hans Werner Henze
  Hans Werner Henze
  
  Hans Werner Henze is a German composing well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality....
   - Phaedra
  Phaedra (opera)
  
  Phaedra is a 'concert opera' in two-acts by Hans Werner Henze. Its first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera on . The work is a co-commission and co-production with the Berliner Festspiele, La Monnaie, Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main and the Vienna Festival....
  
• James MacMillan - The Sacrifice
  The Sacrifice (opera)
  
  The Sacrifice is an opera in three acts composed by James MacMillan with a libretto by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts based on the Branwen story of the Welsh language Mythology collection, the Mabinogion....
  
• Richard Mills
  Richard Mills
  
  Richard John Mills Order of Australia, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian Conducting and composer .He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria....
   - The Love of the Nightingale
  The Love of the Nightingale (opera)
  
  The Love of the Nightingale is an opera in two acts by Richard Mills. The libretto by Timberlake Wertenbaker is based on her play of the The Love of the Nightingale....
  
• Fabio Vacchi
  Fabio Vacchi
  
  Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna, Italy....
   - Teneke
  Teneke
  
  Teneke is an opera in three acts by Italian people composer Fabio Vacchi.Franco Marcoaldi adapted the Italian language libretto from the Teneke by the Turkish people author Yasar Kemal published in 1955....
  

• Mohammed Fairouz - Bonsai Journal

• The musical, Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (musical)
  
  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 Tony Award?winning Musical theatre thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a libretto by Hugh Wheeler....
  , was adapted as a major motion picture (under the title Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) by Tim Burton
  Tim Burton
  
  Tim Burton is an award-winning Film Director and Film Producer. Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton and Jean Erickson....
   featuring Johnny Depp
  Johnny Depp
  
  Johnny Depp is an American actor known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Edward Scissorhands....
  , Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  
  Helena Bonham Carter is an Academy Award-nominated England actor. Bonham Carter made her screen debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane ....
  , Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  
  Christopher Frank Carandini Lee Order of the British Empire, Venerable Order of Saint John is an award-winning England actor and singer. He initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Film Productions films....
  , Alan Rickman
  Alan Rickman
  
  Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning England film, television and Theatre actor....
   and Sacha Baron Cohen
  Sacha Baron Cohen
  
  Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is a UK comedian, writer and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G , Borat Sagdiyev , and Bruno ....
   in key roles. It was released December 21, 2007.

• Hairspray
  Hairspray (2007 film)
  
  Hairspray is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United States musical film produced by Craig Zadan/Neil Meron Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema....
  - an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, itself adapted from John Waters' 1988 comedy film. It was released July 20, 2007.

• Across the Universe
  Across the Universe (film)
  
  Across the Universe is a 2007 musical film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007....
  a musical which tells a love story during war times, using adapted versions of music from The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  . It was widely released October 12, 2007.

• The film Once
  Once (film)
  
  Once is a 2007 in film Republic of Ireland musical film written and directed by John Carney . Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Mark?ta Irglov? as struggling musicians....
  a self proclaimed modern-musical is released. It would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Song for the song Falling Slowly
  Falling Slowly
  
  "Falling Slowly" is an Academy Award-winning song, written and performed by personal and professional partners Glen Hansard and Mark?ta Irglov?....
  

• Curtains (Music: John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
   Lyrics: Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   Book: Rupert Holmes
  Rupert Holmes
  
  Rupert Holmes is an United States-United Kingdom composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author of plays, novels and stories. He is best known for his number one pop hit "Escape " in 1979, his Tony Award winning musical Drood and his more recent Broadway theatre musical Curtains ....
  ) Broadway production opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
  Al Hirschfeld Theatre
  
  The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 302 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect G....
   on March 22

• Miss Marie Lloyd - Queen of The Music Hall
  Miss Marie Lloyd - Queen of The Music Hall
  
  Miss Marie Lloyd - Queen of The Music Hall, was a one-off BBC drama. Produced by Hat Trick Productions, it was first shown on BBC Four in 2007....
  starring Jessie Wallace
  Jessie Wallace
  
  Jessie Wallace is an English actress....
   and Richard Armitage
  Richard Armitage (actor)
  
  Richard Armitage is an England actor....
  

• High School Musical 2 starring Zac Efron
  Zac Efron
  
  Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron is an American actor and singer. He began acting in the early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his roles in the List of Disney Channel Original Movies High School Musical, the The WB Television Network series Summerland , and the film version of the Broadway theatre mus...
  , Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale
  Ashley Tisdale
  
  Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress, singer, and television producer. Tisdale's first major role started in 2005 with Disney's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Maddie Fitzpatrick and she next played Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical ....
   premiered on the Disney Channel
  Disney Channel
  
  Disney Channel is a cable television television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming....
  , it went on to become one of the most successful television movies ever.

Deaths

January

• January 1—Del Reeves
  Del Reeves
  
  Franklin Delano "Del" Reeves was a country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty-type songs of the 1960s. He became one of the most successful male country singers of the 1960s....
  , American country singer, 74
• January 6—Pete Kleinow, American gutairist (Flying Burrito Brothers), 72
• January 8—Mercedes Murciano, Cuban singer Miami Sound Machine, 49.
• January 13—Michael Brecker
  Michael Brecker
  
  Michael Leonard Brecker was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane,"[1] he won 15 Grammys as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007....
  , American jazz saxophorist, 57
• January 16—Thornton "Pookie" Hudson, American singer (The Spaniels
  The Spaniels
  
  The Spaniels were an United States rhythm and blues doo-wop group, best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight".They have been called the first successful Midwestern United States R&B group....
  ), 73
• January 17—Uwe Nettlebeck, German producer and multi-instrumentalist (Faust
  Faust (band)
  
  Faust is a Germany krautrock band, originally comprising Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Herv? P?ron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter W?sthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner....
  ), 67
• January 18—Brent Liles
  Brent Liles
  
  Brent Harrold Liles RIP was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981 - 1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange from 1985 - 1992. He left Social Distortion on New Year's Eve 1984, with the band's drummer Derek O'Brien ....
  , American punk bassist (Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  
  Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
  ), 43
• January 19—Denny Doherty
  Denny Doherty
  
  Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canada singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas....
  , Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas
  
  The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and ten hit singles....
  ), 66
• January 22—Disco D
  Disco D
  
  David Aaron Shayman, better known by his stage name Disco D , was an United States record producer and composer. He rose from being a teenage DJ prodigy in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he helped DJ Godfather popularize the Detroit electronic music called "Ghettotech," to being a pioneer of the burgeoning mobile music art form....
  , an American music producer and composer, 26
• January 28—Karel Svoboda
  Karel Svoboda
  
  Karel Svoboda was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s....
  , composer, 68
• January 31—Kirka Babitzin
  Kirka Babitzin
  
  Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin was one of Finland's most famous popular musicians....
  , Finnish singer, 56

February

• February 1—Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti
  
  Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
  , composer, 95
• February 4—Ilya Kormiltsev
  Ilya Kormiltsev
  
  Ilya Valer'yevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius , one of most popular rock bands in Soviet Union and, later, Russia....
  , Russian songwriter, 47
• February 6
• Billy Henderson
  Billy Henderson
  
  William "Billy" Henderson was an England professional football . He was born in Whitburn, South Tyneside, County Durham.Billy Henderson, a Defender , began his career with his local side Whitburn F.C....
  , American vocalist (The Spinners
  The Spinners (U.S. band)
  
  The Spinners are a Detroit, Michigan, Michigan-based soul music vocal group , and most popular during the 1970s. The group still tours . The band is also listed occasionally as The Motown Spinners, or The Detroit Spinners....
  ), 67
• Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  , American singer, 93
• February 8—Joe Hunter
  Joe Hunter (musician)
  
  Joseph Edward Hunter Born in Jackson, Tennessee was an African-American musician, known for his recording session work as a pianist in Motown Records' in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers....
  , American pianist (The Funk Brothers
  The Funk Brothers
  
  The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles, California....
  ), 79
• February 15—Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
  , American songwriter, 92
• February 18—John "Bam Bam" Lane, American drummer (Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  ), 76
• February 19—Janet Blair
  Janet Blair
  
  Janet Blair was an United States film and television actor....
  , American actress and singer, 85
• February 23
• Donnie Brooks
  Donnie Brooks
  
  Donnie Brooks was an United States pop music singer. Brooks has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.Born in Dallas, Texas, Texas, Abohosh moved to Ventura, California, California in his teens, where he was adoption by his Stepfamily and took the name John Faircloth....
  , American pop singer, 71
• Ian Wallace
  Ian Wallace (drummer)
  
  Ian Russell Wallace was a rock music and jazz music drummer, best known as a member of progressive rock band , King Crimson from 1971-1972.Wallace formed his first band, The Jaguars, at school, before going on to join The Warriors with Jon Anderson in his pre-Yes days....
  , British drummer (King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
  ), 60
• February 28—Billy Thorpe
  Billy Thorpe
  
  Billy Thorpe, Order of Australia was a renowned England-born Australian Rock music. He earned great success in the 1960s and 1970s as the lead singer of rock band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs....
  , British-born Australian rock performer, 60

March

• March 7—Frigyes Hidas
  Frigyes Hidas
  
  Frigyes Hidas was a Hungary composer.Hidas studied musical composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with J?nos Visky. After his studies, he was the musical director of the National Theater in Budapest from 1951 to 1966 and also held the same role at the city's Operetta Theater from 1974 to 1979....
  , Hungarian composer, 88
• March 9—Brad Delp
  Brad Delp
  
  Bradley E. Delp was an United States musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock music band Boston . Delp is also known for his extremely high range, and is often cited as a key influence in the rock music vocal scene....
  , American singer (Boston
  Boston (band)
  
  Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
  ), 55
• March 19—Luther Ingram
  Luther Ingram
  
  ###Luther Ingram was an Rhythm and blues and Soul music singing and songwriter....
  , American singer, 69

April

• April 5—Mark St. John
  Mark St. John
  
  Mark Leslie Norton better known as Mark St. John was a guitarist best known for his work with the Musical ensemble#Rock and pop bands Kiss ....
  , American guitarist (Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  , White Tiger
  White Tiger (Band)
  
  White Tiger was an United States of America glam metal band....
  ), 51
• April 9—Egon Bondy
  Egon Bondy
  
  Egon Bondy, born Zbynek Fi?er, was a Czechs philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground .In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group....
  , Czech songwriter (Plastic People of the Universe), 77
• April 10—Dakota Staton
  Dakota Staton
  
  Dakota Staton , also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period, was an United States jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No....
  , American jazz vocalist, 74
• April 14—Don Ho
  Don Ho
  
  Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho , was a Hawaiian and traditional pop music musician and singer and entertainer....
  , Hawaiian musician, 76
• April 17—Kitty Carlisle, American singer, 96
• April 20-Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill
  
  Andrew Hill was an United States jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one the most important progenitors of Free jazz piano, though he is considered more mainstream jazz than Cecil Taylor, who is two years older than Hill....
  , American jazz pianist, 75
• April 25—Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer 69
• April 26—San Fadyl, American drummer (The Ladybug Transistor
  The Ladybug Transistor
  
  The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective.Started in 1995 by Gary Olson, Edward Powers and Javier Villegas, the band quickly released Marlborough Farms on Park N' Ride records, adding and subtracting a couple members and going on an international tour....
  ), 31
• April 27—Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Rostropovich
  
  Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , , known to close friends as ?Slava,? was a Russians cellist and conducting....
  , Russian cellist and conductor, 80
• April 30
• Zola Taylor
  Zola Taylor
  
  Zola Taylor, born Zoletta Lynn Taylor was an American singer. She was the only female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles....
  , American vocalist (The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  ), 69
• Grégory Lemarchal, French singer, 23

May

• May 6—Ðorde Novkovic
  Ðorde Novkovic
  
  ?orde Novkovic was a prolific songwriter who was known for his work in SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia. He is also known as the father of popular singer Boris Novkovic....
  , Croatian songwriter, 63
• May 20—Ben Weisman
  Ben Weisman
  
  Ben Weisman was an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Presley.A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ben Weisman was one of Elvis Presley's chief songwriters throughout the 1960s....
  , American pianist, 95
• May 27—Izumi Sakai
  Izumi Sakai
  
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  , Japanese singer (Zard
  Zard
  
  was a Japanese pop group. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on the group while others joined and left regularly....
  ), 40

June

• June 1—Tony Thompson
  Tony Thompson (singer)
  
  Tony Ulysses Thompson was an American R&B/soul singer and the lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five....
  , American singer (Hi-Five
  Hi-Five
  
  Hi-Five is an American R&B quintet based out of Waco, Texas who had a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in the early 1990s with "I Like the Way ". Hi-Five was formed in 1990, and consisted of the late Tony Thompson , Roderick "Pooh" Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley....
  ), 36
• June 2—John Pyke, American drummer (Ra Ra Riot
  Ra Ra Riot
  
  Ra Ra Riot is an United States of America indie rock band from Syracuse, New York, consisting of vocalist Wes Miles, bass guitar Mathieu Santos, guitarist Milo Bonacci, cello Alexandra Lawn, and violinist Rebecca Zeller....
  ), 23
• June 4—Freddie Scott
  Freddie Scott
  
  Freddie Scott was a solo musician who began his career as a songwriter for Colpix Records, along with Carole King and Gerry Goffin.Scott sound recording and reproduction the chart-topper hit "Hey, Girl", which reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 listings, and went on to chart a string of other Billboard Hot 100 single between 1963 and 1...
  , American singer, 74
• June 8—Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher
  
  Nellie Lutcher was an African-American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who achieved prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s.She was most recognizable for her distinctive voice, particularly her phrasing and exaggerated pronunciation, and was credited as an influence by Nina Simone among others....
  , American jazz and pop singer and pianist, 94
• June 18—Hank Medress
  Hank Medress
  
  Hank Medress was an American singer and record producer....
  , American singer (The Tokens
  The Tokens
  
  The Tokens are an United States male doo-wop human voice band from Brooklyn, New York. They are best-known for their chart-topper 1961 single , "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" ....
  ), 67
• June 24—Natasja
  Natasja Saad
  
  Natasja Saad , also known as Lil T, Little T and Natasja, was a Denmark rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular U.S....
  , Danish reggae singer, 33
• June 29—George McCorkle
  George McCorkle
  
  George McCorkle was a founding member and guitarist for the Marshall Tucker Band. He wrote "Fire on the Mountain" which was the band's first top 40 hit in the United States in 1975....
  , American guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band
  Marshall Tucker Band
  
  The Marshall Tucker Band is an United States Southern rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina, South Carolina.The band formed in 1972 with founding members Doug Gray , George McCorkle , Paul Riddle , Jerry Eubanks , and brothers Toy Caldwell and Tommy Caldwell ....
  ), 60

July

• July 2—Hy Zaret
  Hy Zaret
  
  Hy Zaret was an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century....
  , American lyricist, 98
• July 3—Boots Randolph
  Boots Randolph
  
  Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an United States musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax." Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career....
  , American saxophonist, 80
• July 4—Bill Pinkney
  Bill Pinkney
  
  Bill Pinkney was an United States performer and singer. Pinkney is often incorrectly said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters, who achieved international fame with numerous hit records....
  , American vocalist (The Drifters
  The Drifters
  
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
  ), 81.
• July 5—George Melly
  George Melly
  
  Alan George Heywood Melly was an England jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism....
  , British Jazz vocalist, 80.
• July 8—Jindrich Feld
  Jindrich Feld
  
  Jindrich Feld was a Czechs composing of classical music....
  , Czech composer, 82
• July 11—Rod Lauren
  Rod Lauren
  
  Rod Lauren was an American actor and singer.As an actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. amongst others during the 1960s....
  , American singer, 67
• July 15—Kelly Johnson, British guitarist (Girlschool
  Girlschool
  
  Girlschool are a long-running United Kingdom all-female Heavy metal music band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were inspirational for many succeeding female bands....
  ), 49
• July 23—Ron Miller
  Ron Miller (songwriter)
  
  Ronald Norman Miller was an United States popular songwriter and record producer, who attained many Top 10 hits with ballads written for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s....
  , American songwriter and producer, 74
• July 29—Trevor Hudson, American bassist (Bottom of the Hudson
  Bottom of the Hudson
  
  General Info Bottom of the Hudson is an indie band from Brooklyn, New York. They are signed with Absolutely Kosher Records and debuted in 2003 with their album, The Omaha Record....
  ), 27

August

• August 4—Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood
  
  Lee Hazlewood was an United States country music and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties....
  , American singer and songwriter, 78
• August 10—Anthony Wilson
  Anthony Wilson
  
  Anthony Wilson is a jazz guitarist and composer. He is the son of bandleader Gerald Wilson....
  , British record executive (Factory Records
  Factory Records
  
  Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 in music, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark....
  ), 57
• August 12—Merv Griffin
  Merv Griffin
  
  Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an United States television host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway theatre....
  , American singer, television producer and land developer, 82
• August 16—Max Roach
  Max Roach
  
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
  , American jazz drummer, 83

September

• September 3 - Carter Albrecht
  Carter Albrecht
  
  Jeffrey Carter Albrecht was an United States musician perhaps best known for his keyboard and guitar work in Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He was shot and killed by his girlfriend's neighbor early in the morning on 3 September 2007....
  , American keyboardist (Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians), 34
• September 6—Luciano Pavarotti
  Luciano Pavarotti
  
  Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
  , Italian tenor, 71
• September 9 - Hughie Thomasson
  Hughie Thomasson
  
  Hugh Edward Thomasson, Jr. was an American guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of The Outlaws and as a guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd....
  , American guitarist, 55
• September 10 - Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician, 31
• September 11
• Willie Tee
  Willie Tee
  
  Willie Tee was a keyboardist, songwriter, singer, producer and notable early architect of New Orleans funk and soul, who helped shape the sound of New Orleans for more than four decades....
  , American singer/songwriter, 63
• Joe Zawinul
  Joe Zawinul
  
  Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrians jazz keyboard instrument and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of Rock music and world music....
  , Austrian keyboardist (Weather Report
  Weather Report
  
  Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  ), 75
• September 12 - Bobby Byrd
  Bobby Byrd
  
  Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd was an African American funk/soul music/Rhythm and blues/gospel music musician, songwriter and record producer....
  , American soul singer, 73
• September 15 - Aldemaro Romero
  Aldemaro Romero
  
  Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Carabobo State....
  , Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, 79
• September 25 — Patrick Bourque, American bassist (Emerson Drive
  Emerson Drive
  
  Emerson Drive is a Canadian country music band which started out in Grande Prairie, Alberta in 1995 as 12 Gauge. The band is composed of Brad Mates , David Pichette , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , and Dale Wallace ....
  ), 29

October

• October 9 - Jacqueline "Lady Jaye" Breyer, British experimental musician (Psychic TV
  Psychic TV
  
  Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music. The band was formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and video director Peter Christopherson with Alex Fergusson , musician and producer ....
  ), 38
• October 16 - Toše Proeski
  Toše Proeski
  
  Todor "To?e" Proeski was a famous Ethnic Macedonians pop singer. He was popular across the entire Balkans and further north, and locally he was considered a top act of the Music of the Republic of Macedonia....
  , Macedonian singer, 26
• October 17 - Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  
  Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
  , American singer, 76
• October 18 - Lucky Dube
  Lucky Dube
  
  Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu language, English language and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist....
  , South African reggae musician, 43
• October 20 - Paul Raven
  Paul Raven
  
  Paul Vincent Raven was a rock bassist best known for his work in the seminal punk/goth/metal/electronic group Killing Joke. He later played in the alternative rock/industrial rock bands Prong and Ministry ....
  , British bassist (Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  ) 46
• October 24 - Petr Eben
  Petr Eben
  
  Petr Eben was one of the most distinguished composers in the Czech Republic....
  , Czech composer, 78
• October 28 - Porter Wagoner
  Porter Wagoner
  
  Porter Wayne Wagoner was an United States country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suit and Manuel Cuevas suits and blond Pompadour , Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show....
  , American country singer, 80
• October 30 - Robert Goulet
  Robert Goulet
  
  Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
  , American singer, 73

November

• November 2 - Witold Kieltyka
  Witold Kieltyka
  
  Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka was a Polish musician, the drummer and percussionist for the technical death metal band Decapitated, and younger brother of the musician Waclaw Kieltyka....
  , Polish drummer (Decapitated
  Decapitated
  
  Decapitated is a technical death metal band from Poland.They formed in 1996 in Krosno in southern Poland, when all the members were still attending music school....
  ), 23
• November 6 - Hank Thompson
  Hank Thompson (music)
  
  Henry William "Hank" Thompson was a country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades. He sold over 60 million records worldwide.Thompson's musical style, characterized as Honky tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, gravelly baritone vocals....
  , American country singer and guitarist, 82
• November 12 - Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, Swiss singer, 90
• November 16 - Grethe Kausland
  Grethe Kausland
  
  Grethe Kausland was a Norway singer, performer and actress. As a child star she was one of Norway's most popular singers , and she participated in several films as a child....
  , Norweigen singer, 60
• November 19
• Paul Brodie
  Paul Brodie
  
  Paul Brodie was a Canada saxophonist. In 1994, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, for having "shown true mastery of his art through his ability to reach all ages with his music." ...
  , Canadian saxophonist, 73
• Kevin DuBrow
  Kevin DuBrow
  
  Kevin DuBrow was an United States rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy metal music band Quiet Riot from 1973 until his death in 2007....
  , American singer, (Quiet Riot
  Quiet Riot
  
  Quiet Riot was an United States Heavy metal music band whose 1983 US Festival appearance helped to solidify metal's image. They are best known for their hit singles "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health ." They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the name Mach 1....
  ), 52
• Wiera Gran
  Wiera Gran
  
  Wiera Gran was a Polish singer and actress. She was also known as Vera Gran and Mariol.One of the most talented and mysterious Polish singers endowed with an unparalleled timbre of voice....
  , Polish singer, 91
• November 20 - Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American jazz musician, 100
• November 23 - Frank Guarrera
  Frank Guarrera
  
  Frank Guarrera was an Italian-American lyric baritone who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera....
  , American singer, 83
• November 24 - Casey Calvert, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights
  Hawthorne Heights
  
  Hawthorne Heights is an United States Emo#Third wave band formed in Dayton, Ohio in June, 2001. Their line-up currently consists of vocalist and guitarist JT Woodruff, lead guitarist Micah Carli, bassist and vocalist Matt Ridenour and drummer Eron Bucciarelli....
  ) 26
• November 27 - Cecil Payne
  Cecil Payne
  
  Cecil Payne was a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, NY. Payne also played the alto saxophone and flute. He played with other jazz greats, in particular Dizzy Gillespie and Randy Weston, in addition to his solo work as bandleader....
  , American saxophonist, 84
• November 28
• Fred Chichin
  Fred Chichin
  
  Fr?d?ric "Fred" Chichin was a French musician and songwriter. He was born in Clichy, France.He was the lead member of the band Les Rita Mitsouko, along with Catherine Ringer, whom he met in 1979....
  , French musician, (Les Rita Mitsouko
  Les Rita Mitsouko
  
  Les Rita Mitsouko was a French pop rock group formed by guitarist Fred Chichin and singer Catherine Ringer. The duo first performed as Rita Mitsouko at Gibus Club, Paris in 1980....
  ), 53
• Ashley Titus
  Ashley Titus
  
  Ashley Titus , better known as Mr Fat, was a South African rapping, musician and television presenter.Titus was born in Bonteheuwel, Cape Flats, South Africa....
  , South African rapper, 37
• November 29 - Jim Nesbitt
  Jim Nesbitt
  
  Jim Nesbitt was a country music singer. He had his first hit with "Please Mr. Kennedy" in 1961. It was released on Dot Records and became a number one hit on the Billboard charts....
  , American country singer, 75
• November 30 - Patrick Mason, American bassist Arsonists Get All the Girls
  Arsonists Get All the Girls
  
  Arsonists Get All the Girls is a five-piece Experimental music deathcore band from Santa Cruz, California. Their music mixes deathcore, grindcore, jazz, melodic death metal, circus music, electronic music, hardcore punk, ska, ambient and many others into a single song at times, but for the most part, they include their use of keyboards and sy...
  , 21

December

• December 3 - Sergio Gomez
  Sergio Gómez
  
  Paulo Sergio G?mez S?nchez , better known as Sergio G?mez, was a Mexico singer who was the founder and lead vocalist of the duranguense group K-Paz de la Sierra....
  , Mexican singer (K-Paz de la Sierra
  K-Paz de la Sierra
  
  K-Paz de la Sierra is a Duranguense band that was formed in the United States by Mexico natives. Some of their hits include "Mi Credo", "Volver?", "Con Olor A Hierba", "Pero Te Vas A Arrepentir", "Procuro olvidarte" , "Y Aqu? Estoy", and many others....
  ), 34
• December 4 - Pimp C
  Pimp C
  
  Chad Butler , better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an United States rapper and record producer. He was one half of the influential hip-hop group UGK....
  , American rapper (UGK
  UGK
  
  UGK was a hip hop music act from Port Arthur, Texas formed in 1987 by the late Chad "Pimp C" Butler. He then joined with Bernard "Bun B" Freeman who became his longtime partner....
  ), 33
• December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries....
  , German avant-garde
  Avant-garde
  
  Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
   composer, 79
• December 12 - Ike Turner
  Ike Turner
  
  Ike Wister Turner was an United States musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer. His first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "First rock and roll record" ever....
  , American guitarist, 76
• December 16
• Dan Fogelberg
  Dan Fogelberg
  
  Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an United States singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk music, pop music, European classical music, jazz, and bluegrass music....
  , American singer/guitarist, 56
• Harald Genzmer
  Harald Genzmer
  
  Harald Genzmer was a German composer of contemporary classical music....
  , German composer and teacher, 98
• December 21 - Ruth Wallis
  Ruth Wallis
  
  Ruth Wallis was a novelty cabaret singer....
  , American singer, 87
• December 22 - Joe Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers
  Ames Brothers
  
  The Ames Brothers were a singing quartet from Malden, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, who were particularly famous in the 1950s for their traditional pop music chart-topper....
  ), 88
• December 23 - Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  , Canadian jazz pianist, 82
• Evan Ferrell, American bassist (Rogue Wave
  Rogue Wave (band)
  
  Rogue Wave is an indie rock band from Oakland, California, , and headed by Zach Schwartz who created the band after losing his job in the Dot-com company bust....
  ), 33
• December 25 - Pat Kirkwood, English actress and singer, 86
• December 26 - Joe Dolan
  Joe Dolan
  
  Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan was an Republic of Ireland singer of easy listening songs....
  , Irish singer, 68

See also

• 2007 in country music
  2007 in country music
  
  This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 2007....
  
• 2007 in British music
  2007 in British music
  
  This is a summary of the year 2007 in British music. It was the first year of digital downloads being fully integrated into the charts, leading to many songs not given physical releases to enter the chart on download sales alone....
  
• 2007 in hip hop
  2007 in hip hop
  
  2007, the year in hiphop....
  
• 2007 in heavy metal music
  2007 in heavy metal music
  
  This is a timeline documenting the events of Heavy Metal music in the year 2007....
  
• List of albums released in 2007
  List of albums released in 2007
  
  January...
  
• Timeline of musical events