1999 in music
list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1999.
Events
January
- After eight years of marriage, musician husband Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.
- Paul McCartney attends the launch of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia.
- Britney Spears releases her debut album, ...Baby One More Time, which would go on to sell 23 million copies. The album hits number one on the charts. The title track and first single released from the album, also hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999.
- Fredrik Johansson is fired from Dark Tranquillity.
Music of the United Kingdom (1990s)
Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music. Electronic rock bands like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers began to achieve a high profile. Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which led to the commercial success of Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis; followed by a stream of post-Britpop bands like Travis and Feeder.
Rock
Madchester
The independent rock scene that had developed in Manchester in the second half of the 1980s, based in The Haçienda nightclub and around Factory Records, dubbed Madchester, came to national prominence at the end of the decade, with the Happy Mondays, the Inspiral Carpets, and Stone Roses charting late in 1989. The scene became the centre of media attention for independent rock in the early 1990s, with bands like World of Twist, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, The High, Northside, Paris Angels, and Intastella also gaining national attention. The period of dominance was relatively short lived with The Stone Roses beginning to retreat from public performance while engaged in contractual disputes, the Happy Mondays having difficulty in producing a second album and Factory Records going bankrupt in 1992. Local bands catching the tail-end of Madchester, such as The Mock Turtles, became part of a wider baggy scene. The music press in the UK began to place more focus on shoegazing bands from the south of England and bands emerging through US grunge.
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Trinity Cross
by: Nana Mizukithe prologue snatches away everything along with the
scenery before us as the pure white feathers falls now
flying away without even hearing the last words into
this uncertain sky with nowhere to go
the special color that blocks my heart, sometimes a
shadow, sometimes a dream, and sometimes love
when the shard of memories become important, they
change into small courage
and overlap in the silhouette
if the prayers will become an unseen wind and reach the
nape of your neck
I feel that I can overcome the pain and lies and the
regret left behind so
believe, the many radiance that appears when you close
your eyes
the proof of eternity is this Trinity Cross
even if there's no song that will echo forever, this
feeling will never fade
the pain I carried without knowing it, sometimes
darkness, sometimes rain, and sometimes love
the important feeling
that was similar to the warmth notifying me that every
scene is wonderful now
with a strong force that can be called as an oath I
felt that 'I want to protect you'
I feel that I can cope with the sins and punishment and
the regret from sadness so
believe, even if the sudden wind makes you uneasy
the proof of eternity is this Trinity Cross
I wonder why? I feel far from time to time. although
I'm very close.
feeling painful by wanting to convey more words than
to an endless tomorrow
the pure white feathers fall now and become the veil
that covers the two of us
I feel that I will never get lost again in the morning
and night and the regret of reminiscence
believe, the many radiance that appears when you close
your eyes