During the week of the album’s release, manager Phil Harvey quit the band, having struggled with the pressure that came with the band’s early success, and went on to travel across South America and study in Australia.
The Who played concerts in the UK in early 2002 in preparation for a full US tour. On 27 June, the day before the first date, Entwistle, 57, was found dead of a heart attack at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Cocaine was a contributing factor.
On 27 June, the day before the first date, Entwistle, 57, was found dead of a heart attack at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Cocaine was a contributing factor.
Coldplay toured from 19 June 2002 to 8 September 2003 for the Rush of Blood to the Head Tour .
concerted work started in June 2002, with the sessions moving to Marrakesh , Morocco soon after, and then to Devon back in the UK.
The concerts held in Paris at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy were filmed and later released in May 2002 as a live DVD entitled One Night in Paris .
In April 2002, a DVD of some of Motörhead’s performances from the 1970s and 1980s along with some stock footage of the band was released as The Best of Motörhead . Two weeks earlier, the Hammered album was released and supported by the “Hammered” tour, which kicked off in the…
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In April and May 2002 the band embarked on a low-key UK tour, which was initially planned to be secret and promoted under the pseudonym The Masons. The band played short ten song sets on the tour, one half old songs and the other half new songs set to appear…
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In March 2002 and with no sign of new material, it was claimed that the delay in the new album being finished was due to Chad’s injuring his hand after falling into a fire grate, keeping him from playing for four to five months, but confirmed that the band had…
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In March 2002, Osbourne’s Emmy -winning reality show The Osbournes debuted on MTV , and quickly became a worldwide hit.