Despite the constant rumors of a reunion, which ironically started shortly after the breakup, little was heard regarding Soda, except for a TV special on El Ultimo Concierto (The Last Concert) produced by HBO and an MTV documentary titled Soda Stereo: La Leyenda (Soda Stereo: The Legend). Finally, in 2002…
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and the album was finally completed in 2002/2003 by Morley, Treece and Whaley, with Kevin Spacey on drums, as Charles had other commitments.
In 2002, the Stones released Forty Licks , a greatest hits double album, to mark forty years as a band. The collection contained four new songs recorded with the core band of Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood, Leavell, and Jones. The album has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. It…
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Arctic Monkeys were formed in mid-2002 by friends Alex Turner , Matt Helders , and Andy Nicholson (who left the band shortly after their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not , was released). Turner and Helders were neighbours and close friends, and they met Nicholson…
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The same year, Q magazine named the Rolling Stones one of the 50 Bands To See Before You Die.
The live album What You and I Have Been Through and the compilation Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics were both released in 2002.
Another live record and DVD A Long Day’s Night followed in 2002, both drawn from one concert in Chicago. This album also featured the Bloom, Roeser, Lanier, Miranda, Rondinelli lineup.
Guitarist/vocalist Charlie Marinkovich joined the band in 2002. Originally from Seattle, Marinkovich had played with Randy Hansen and others.
Yule subsequently toured with Lou Reed and played on the latter’s Sally Can’t Dance album, and Yule (at Reed’s request) also contributed guitar and bass tracks to Reed’s album Coney Island Baby , which can be heard in the Bonus Edition of the album (released in 2002). Yule became a…
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In 2002, the Argentine edition of the Rolling Stone magazine in partnership with MTV issued a list featuring Soda Stereo’s songs among the best 100 rock songs in Argentina .