24 July:BENJAMIN FLORES Jr. aka LIL' P-NUT = American child actor and rap artist
Timeline of Musical Events in 2002
3 February: U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI. U2's performance becomes a tribute to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack.
13 February: Jennifer Lopez becomes the first singer to have a remix album, J to tha L-O!: The Remixes, debut at number one, selling over 156,000 copies.
7 March: Burton C. Bell leaves Fear Factory after falling out with Dino Cazares. Fear Factory soon disband.
12 March: Silverchair withdraw from the Gone South festival in Australia after Daniel Johns contracts reactive arthritis.
24 March: Takahiro Nishikawa leaves Dreams Come True.
5 April: Lead singer, Layne Staley of Alice in Chains was found dead in his condo of an apparent drug overdose.
23 April: Avril Lavigne released "Complicated", her first single.
25 April: Lisa Lopes, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and member of the R&B girl group TLC, better known by her stage name Left Eye, dies in a car accident in La Ceiba, Honduras. She was the sole fatality of eight people in the vehicle, a Mitsubishi Montero Sport that she was driving.
28 May: American Rapper Eminem Releases The Eminem Show one of the decade's most popular albums it goes on to sale more 8 million copies in the U.S.
June: Graham Coxon leaves Blur during Think Tank's recording sessions, after tensions with the others members mainly due to its alleged alcohol problems and its disagreement about the choice of Fatboy Slim as producer. Coxon only contributed in one song, Battery in your legs. He was later "replaced" on tour by Simon Tong, former guitarist of The Verve.
5 June: U.S. soul and R&B singer R. Kelly, is charged with 21 counts of having sexual intercourse with a minor after a videotape allegedly showing him engaged in sexual acts with an underage girl is broadcast on the internet.
15 June: The Los Angeles, California, USA radio station KROQ-FM airs the 10th Annual Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Hoobastank, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, Moby, New Found Glory, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, The Strokes, System of a Down, Unwritten Law, The Vines, The Violent Femmes and Rob Zombie.
19 June: Hikaru Utada releases the album Deep River, which sold 2,350,170 copies in a week, debuting at number 1 on the weekly, monthly, and annual Oricon album chart. This would be her third time at number 1 on the year-end rankings of that particular chart, a record for any Japanese musical act or worldwide.
30 June: The Glastonbury Festival features headline acts Coldplay, Garbage, Stereophonics, Orbital, Roger Waters, Rod Stewart, and Air.
27 July:AVRIL LAVIGNE debut single "Complicated" went to #1 for 8 weeks.
4 September:KELLY CLARKSON was crowned the first winner of the television talent contest, American Idol.
11 September: Marie Fredriksson of Roxette is injured in a domestic accident, leading to the discovery of a brain tumor.
28 September: A stretch of Tennessee State Route 19 is officially named for Tina Turner, who was born and raised in nearby Nutbush, Tennessee.
2 October: Christina Aguilera releases her controversial music video for "Dirrty", the lead single from her second album Stripped.
13 October: The fifth Terrastock festival is held in Boston, USA.
24 October: Mikey "Bug" Cox is fired from Coal Chamber after disputes with other members about his drug addiction.
26 October:
Avril Lavigne gets her second number one hit "Sk8er Boi".
Christina Aguilera releases her controversial second studio album Stripped, and debuts #2 on the Billboard 200, selling 330,000 copies in its first week. Stripped is the first studio album in three years since Christina Aguilera (1999).
30 October: Jam Master Jay is shot dead at a studio in Queens. Run-D.M.C. disbands
29 November: Concert For George is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, as a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his death, under the musical direction of friend Eric Clapton. Performers included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar, and Billy Preston. The event benefitted the Material World Charitable Foundation.
30 November: British girl group Girls Aloud is formed on the reality television show Popstars: The Rivals.
2 December: Peter Garrett leaves Midnight Oil.
Also in 2002
The Area 2 Festival features headline acts Moby, David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Ash, and Blue Man Group.
Peter Tägtgren, Quits, Lock Up. The Band then Hires, Tomas Lindberg.
Michael Jackson performs Dangerous on TV.
Classical Music completed in 2002
KALEVI AHO
Flute Concerto
LEONARDO BALADA
Passacaglia for Orchestra
DEREK BOURGEOIS
Symphony No. 9
GEORGE CRUMB
Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music) for piano
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartet No. 1
PHILIP GLASS
Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra
PATRICK HAWES
Blue in Blue
TOLGA KASHIF
Queen Symphony
THEO LOEVENDIE
Clarinet Concerto
JOHN SERRY Sr.
American Rhapsody (Piano Transcription)
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Europa-Gruss (revised version, for minimum ensemble)
Strahlen ("Rays"), for a percussionist and ten-channel sound recording
Operas completed in 2002
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Der Riese vom Steinfeld
STEVE REICH
Three Tales
MICHEL VAN DER AA
One
Musical Theatre in 2002
BOMBAY DREAMS
London production
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
London production
HAIRSPRAY
Broadway production opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on August 15
MOVIN' OUT
Broadway production
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS: The Musical
Broadway production opened on March 14 at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 109 performances and 18 previews
TABOO
London production opened January 29
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Broadway production
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Last edited: 27th May 2017
