rock

2002
The Rolling Stones Forty Licks

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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DDT (band) released double album Yedinochestvo

In 2002 and 2003 DDT released a double album called Yedinochestvo (Solitude), which was even more experimental than Mir nomer nol . After the following tour, Vadim Kurilev, the band’s guitarist and bassist from its original Saint Petersburg lineup, left the group to begin a solo career. One of Kurilev’s…
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Mando Diao release of their debut album

The release of their debut album Bring ‘Em In in 2002, and of their first single ” Sheepdog ” made the band popular in Sweden; the 1960s and 1970s music style and sound as well as the singers´ voices were soon seen as the “typical” Mando Diao sound by their…
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Blue Ă–yster Cult Another live record and DVD A Long Day’s Night followed in 2002, both

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.

Fishbone Live in Amsterdam

This was later complemented by a live CD/DVD, Live in Amsterdam , containing most of their hits and filmed at the 2002 Cannabis Cup Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands .

Nirvana (band) reached a settlement

The day before the case was set to go to trial in October 2002, Love, Novoselic, and Grohl announced that they had reached a settlement.

2001
Uriah Heep (band) The band released The Legend Continues DVD and then toured the UK. A

The band released The Legend Continues DVD and then toured the UK. A reunion gig with Ken Hensley and John Lawton took place in London on 7 December 2001 in the course of the Magicians Birthday Party , which since then became a tradition, even though Hensley never actually joined…
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Gorillaz released the single

On 7 December 2001 the band released the single ” 911 “, a collaboration with the hip-hop group D12 (without Eminem ) and the singer Terry Hall of the Specials about the September 11 attacks .

Metallica Hetfield left rehab

Hetfield left rehab on December 4, 2001,

AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip Live release

released on 4 December 2001.