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See also:

• 2003 in music (UK)
• Record labels established in 2003

Events

• January - following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested. The tapes have been used for bootleg releases for years.
• January 13 - The Who guitarist, Pete Townshend, is arrested by Scotland Yard on suspicion of possessing and making indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute such images, after pornographic images are found on his home computer. [Inaccurate, needs going through by someone familiar with case]
• January 15 - 2003 CDNOW Readers' Poll for all albums and new talent of 2002.
• February 3 - Legendary record producer Phil Spector is arrested for investigation of homicide after the body of actress Lana Clarkson is found at his home in Alhambra, California. Police responded to the 911 phone call from one of Spector's neighbors and discovered Clarkson's body who was suffering from a gun shot wound. Clarkson pronounced dead at the scene.
• February 8 - Avril Lavigne scores her third #1 single "I'm With You", and make her the second artist in history of having three consecutive #1 songs of a debut album at the Billboard Mainstream Top 40.
• February 20 - The Station nightclub fire: Fire engulfs a Rhode Island nightclub during a fireworks display which was part of the performance by rock band Great White. The fire quickly spreads across the ceiling, filling the building with thick, black smoke, killing 100 people and injuring 160 others as audience members rush for the exits. Many people were missing for some time, including Great White guitarist Ty Longley, who was later confirmed to be dead.
• February 23 - New York City is the site of The 45th Annual Grammy Awards, featuring Nickelback, No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Beyonce, and other performers.
• February 27 - Othar Turner, one of the last remaining and most well-known African-American fife-and-drum musicians, dies at the age of 93 in Gravel Springs, Mississippi. Fife-and-drum bands were a significant influence of early blues.
• March 3 - Avril Lavigne kick off her first headlining tour the "Try To Shut Me Up Tour".
• March 10 - Johnny Cash is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee to undergo treatment for pneumonia.
• March 24
  • Meteora by Linkin Park debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart.
  • Ex-Neighbours star, Delta Goodrem releases debut album Innocent Eyes which became a monster smash hit of 2003 and included the releases of the new singles Born to Try & Lost Without You.
• April 1 - Dozens of fans walk out during a Pearl Jam concert when lead singer Eddie Vedder made anti-war comments and insulting remarks about U.S. President George W. Bush. Other audience members booed and shouted at Vedder telling him to "shut up." Vedder attempted to calm the crowd by adding "just to clarify... we support the troops."
• April 8 - Godsmack releases their third studio album Faceless.
• April 21 - S Club announce live on stage at London's Docklands Arena that they've decided to split up after five years together. Their final single, "Say Goodbye", enters the chart at #2 a month after the announcement. Rachel Stevens from the group launched her successful solo career shortly afterwards with the song Sweet Dreams My LA Ex.
• May 12 - Keane releases their third single, Everybody's Changing by the label Fierce Panda
• May 24
  • Turkish singer Sertab Erener wins the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Riga, Latvia, with the song "Everyway That I Can". It is the last time that the contest is a one-night event.
  • After a 40-year wait, Russian fans of The Beatles finally get to see former Beatle Paul McCartney perform on their soil, on the Red Square in Moscow.
• June - Alexander Kuoppala quit Children of Bodom.
  • David Del Tredici's Wondrous the Merge for string quartet and narrator, based on a homoerotic poem by James Broughton, makes its controversial debut at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
• June 4 - Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera kicked off their summer Justified & Stripped tour.
• June 14 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 11th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes, and Pete Yorn.
• Alice Cooper begins production of his 26th album. It is a departure from the heavy metal sound of previous albums and is more influenced by his albums of the '70s.
• June 22 - Nick Oshiro replaces Ken Jay after 30 Auditions in Static-X.
• June 27 - June 29 - Glastonbury Festival, U.K., headline acts included David Gray, R.E.M., Primal Scream, Morcheeba, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Lamb, Macy Gray, Feeder, Manic Street Preachers, Moby, and Doves. The weather is mostly dry and the festival deemed a success from both a security and entertainment viewpoint by Michael Eavis.
• July - A-Teens and many others perform at the Stockholm Pride
• July 2 - Delta Goodrem is diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease.
• July 30 - The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Guess Who, and others headline a benefit concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to prove that the city is safe from SARS. With 450 000 spectators, it is the largest concert in Canadian history.
• June 25 - Beyoncé releases her No.1 debut solo album "Dangerously In Love", which earned her 5 grammys in a single night. It also spawned two No.1 singles in the US and has sold 11 million copies to date.
• August 19 - Jessica Simpson releases her third studio album In This Skin. The album would later go triple platinum in the U.S. and would produce the hit single "With You".
• August 28 - Madonna sparks media controversy by kissing popstars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. The situation even ignited a quick war of words between Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera over the kiss.
• September - Cryptopsy, Fires Martin Lacroix.
• September 22 - Max Cavalera & Gloria Cavalera fire Marcello D. Rapp causing Roy Mayorga & Mike Doling to protest against this and leave the band Soulfly. This causes a whole new Lineup Change.
• September 23 - Limp Bizkit release Results May Vary their first album in 3 years and their 4th album overall.
• October 4 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's The Rising Tour concludes after 120 shows over 14 months, with record-setting sales in U.S. stadiums during the summer and early autumn.
• October 5 - Marco Aro, Quits, The Haunted
• October 16 - Simon & Garfunkel begin their "Old Friends" U.S. reunion tour, twenty years after their 1983 world tour.
• October 20 - Britney Spears releases the first single, Me against the Music Ft. Madonna, off the upcoming album In the Zone, marketed as a comeback single in the US which went on to be an international success reaching top three in several countries.
• October 21 -
  • Delta Goodrem wins 7 ARIA Awards and defeats Amiel's "Lovesong" for and a Gold ARIA for Single of the Year, Born to Try. ARIAs host Rove McManus announced that John Farnham will raise the very loud speakers to 1985/1986's "You're the Voice" after being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
  • Singer/Songwriter Elliott Smith commits suicide at the age of 34
• October 30 - Steve O'Rourke, the manager for Pink Floyd passes away from a Stroke at age 63. In tribute, the legal incarnation of the band reunited to perform at his funeral.
• November - Cryptopsy, Rehires Lord Worm.
• November 3 - Avril Lavigne lauch her first DVD My World (DVD).
• November 5 - Evanescence lead guitarist and founding member Ben Moody leaves the band on their first world tour.
• November 7 - Steve Kmak aka "Fuzz" is fired from Disturbed because Disturbed wasn't totally clicking — personally or musically with him as well as his reported Dave's bad personality, wanting Steve out causing fricition.
• November 11 - Dream Theater releases their seventh studio album titled Train of Thought, widely regarded as their heaviest album to date.
• November 14 - Although Byron Stroud had been with Fear Factory for a month before hand, it wasn't until this date that he became an official member.
• November 18 - Britney Spears releases In the Zone, she breaks her own record from being the first female artist to have 3 albums in #1 to being the first female artist to have 4 albums in #1 consecutively.
• November 18 - Blink-182 releases 7th, and final self-titled album
• November 18 - Michael Jackson released the album Number ones, which included Jackson singles that reached #1 in charts around the world.
• November 19 - On Australian Idol, hosts Andrew G and James Mathison announced the winner and went to Guy Sebastian. He won the prize to BMG Australia and won a studio album, Just As I Am. Sebastian is beaten by Shannon Noll to make it the Monster Winner. He also won the prize single titled Angels Brought Me Here released in December 2003 as an end of decade Christmas present.
• November 21 - Korn releases their sixth studio album Take a Look in the Mirror. It is the last album that features the original lineup of Korn
• November 22 - The band, Five Iron Frenzy, plays its last show at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver.
• November 30 - Michael Jackson is arrested on charges of child molestation
• December 6 - P-Funk founder George Clinton is arrested and charged with drug possession in Tallahassee, Florida.
• December 13/14 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 14th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas show with AFI, Blink-182, Brand New, Chevelle, The Distillers, Jane's Addiction, Jet, KoЯn, Linkin Park, The Offspring, P.O.D., Pennywise, Puddle of Mudd, Rancid, Staind, 311, Thrice and Trapt.
• December 30/31 - The New Year's Eve Falls Festival in Australia, traditionally held in Lorne, Victoria, holds events in both Lorne and Marion Bay, Tasmania at the same time. The same artists perform at both events, alternating between the two venues each night.

Undated

• Skinny Puppy reunites
• Lemon Demon releases "Clown Circus", his first album, and "Live from the Haunted Candle Shop", his second album, on MP3.com.
• Ken Jay leaves Static-X because of musical/political differences.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 2003

Bands reformed

• The Stooges
• Backstreet Boys (Started recording following year)

Bands disbanded

• Alpinestars
• Bis
• Carissa's Wierd
• BBMak
• Bee Gees
• Box Car Racer
• The Buzzhorn
• Coal Chamber
• Crazy Town (reform in 2007)
• Desaparecidos
• The Dismemberment Plan
• Downthesun
• Earthsuit
• Five Iron Frenzy
• I Mother Earth
• The Headstones
• Jets to Brazil
• Kill II This
• Lighthouse Family
• Mansun
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (reform in 2007)
• Pantera
• Pitchshifter
• Reef
• Rollins Band
• S Club
• Smokey & Miho
• Suede
• Stone Temple Pilots (reform in 2008)
• TLC
• Transatlantic (reform in 2008)
• The Watchmen
• Zen Guerrilla
• Zwan

Albums released

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December

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• As the Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
• For Stars and Moon - Angie Aparo
• Arcade Fire (EP) - Arcade Fire
• Bayside/Name Taken Split - Bayside / Name Taken
• Prime Time - Bell, Book & Candle
• Try Honesty / Living in the Shadows - Billy Talent
• Blitzen Trapper - Blitzen Trapper
• Freedom Band - Delinquent Habits
• Snowfield Demo EP - Editors (as Snowfield)
• To Madagascar and Back EP/DVD - Flickerstick
• 25 Miles to Kissimmee - Fools Garden
• Saturday Rock Action EP - Hawk Nelson
• My First Time - Look What I Did
• Louis XIV - Louis XIV
• E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals - The Matches (as The Locals)
• Frengers - Mew
• Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded - Pitchshifter
• Still Electric - Primitive Radio Gods
• Under the Tray - Reggie and the Full Effect
• The Sauce - Eddie Spaghetti
• The Concept EP - The Spill Canvas
• For All the Drugs in the World - Sponge
• Silence Is Easy - Starsailor
• All Got Our Runnins EP - The Streets
• Strawberry Bubblegum - 10cc
• The Sunday Best EP - This Providence
• Throw the Fight (EP) - Throw the Fight
• Velvet Lined Shell - Toyah
• Hunted EP - Year of the Rabbit

Top 5 albums of Billboard year

1. Beyoncé - Dangerously in Love
2. 50 cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
3. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
4. Shania Twain - Up!
5. Dixie Chicks - Home

Top 10 Selling Albums Of the Year

1. Come Away with Me – Norah Jones
2. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
3. Meteora - Linkin Park
4. Life For Rent - Dido
5. Dangerously In Love - Beyonce
6. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
7. Fallen - Evanescence
8. In The Zone - Britney Spears
9. Let Go - Avril Lavigne
10. One Heart - Celine Dion

Top hits on record

• '2+2=5 - Radiohead
• "Addicted" - Simple Plan
• "Angels or Devils" - Dishwalla
• "All I Have" - Jennifer Lopez
• "American Life" - Madonna
• "Angel" - Amanda Perez
• "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - Jet
• "Are You Ready For Love?" (re-mix) - Elton John
• "Baby Boy" - Beyoncé featuring Sean Paul
• "Beautiful" - Christina Aguilera
• "The Beautiful Occupation" - Travis
• "Be Mine" - David Gray
• "Behind Blue Eyes" - Limp Bizkit
• "Bottom of a Bottle" - Smile Empty Soul
• "The Boys of Summer" - Ataris
• "Born to Try" - Delta Goodrem
• "Breathe" - Blu Cantrell
• "Bring Me to Life" - Evanescence
• "California" - Phantom Planet
• "Cannonball" - Damien Rice
• "Can't Hold Us Down" - Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim
• "Cassé" - Nolwenn Leroy
• "Chihuahua" - DJ Bobo
• "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" - The Darkness
• "Clocks" - Coldplay
• "C'mon C'mon" - Sheryl Crow
• "COLORS - Hikaru Utada
• "Come Clean" - Hilary Duff
• "Come Over" - Aaliyah
• "Crazy in Love" - Beyoncé Knowles
• "Cry Me A River" - Justin Timberlake
• "Did My Time" - KoЯn
• "Don't Look Back into the Sun" - The Libertines
• "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones (held over from 2002)
• "Don't Steal Our Sun" - The Thrills
• "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" - Dannii Minogue
• "Entre Nous" - Chimène Badi
• "Everyway That I Can" - Sertab Erener
• "Faint" - Linkin Park
• "Fan" - Pascal Obispo
• "Feel" - Robbie Williams
• "Feeling This" - Blink-182
• "Feel Good Time" - Pink
• "Fighter" - Christina Aguilera
• "Forever and for Always" - Shania Twain
• "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" - Coldplay
• "Go to Sleep" - Radiohead
• "Growing on Me" - The Darkness
• "Girls & Boys" - Good Charlotte
• "Headstrong" - Trapt
• "Hold On"- Good Charlotte
• "Hey Oh" - Tragédie
• "Hey Ya!" - OutKast
• "Hurt" - Johnny Cash
• "I Begin to Wonder" - Dannii Minogue
• "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" - The Darkness
• "I'm With You" - Avril Lavigne
• "In Da Club" - 50 Cent
• "Innocent Eyes" - Delta Goodrem
• "Into the West" - Annie Lennox
• "Intuition" - Jewel
• "Invisible" - Clay Aiken
• "It's My Life" - No Doubt
• "It's Showtime!!" - B'z
• "Je voulais te dire que je t'attends" - Jonatan Cerrada
• "Just Because" - Jane's Addiction
• "Just the Way I'm Feeling" - Feeder
• "L'Orange" - Star Academy 3
• "Laisse parler les gens" - Jocelyne Labylle and Cheela featuring Jacob Desvarieux and Passi
• "Laura" - Scissor Sisters
• "Le Frunkp" - Alphonse Brown
• "Like a Stone" - Audioslave
• "Lonely Day" - Phantom Planet
• "Losing Grip" - Avril Lavigne
• "Lost Without You" - Delta Goodrem
• "Love at First Sight" - Kylie Minogue
• "Mad World" - Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
• "Ma Liberté de penser" - Florent Pagny
• "Maybe Tomorrow" - Stereophonics
• "Me Against the Music" - Britney Spears featuring Madonna
• "Me Myself and I" - Beyoncé
• "Ménage à Trois" - Alcazar
• "Miss Independent" - Kelly Clarkson
• "Milkshake" - Kelis
• "Minerva" - Deftones
• "Molly's Chambers" - Kings of Leon
• "Mueve el Ombligo" - Christell
• "My Love Is Like...Wo" - Mýa
• "Never Leave You" - Lumidee
• "No Good Advice" - Girls Aloud
• "Not a Sinner Nor a Saint" - Alcazar
• "Not Me, Not I" - Delta Goodrem
• "Novocaine" - Alice Cooper
• "Numb" - Linkin Park
• "One Horse Town" - The Thrills
• "One More Chance" - Michael Jackson
• "Ourselves" - Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Out of Time" - Blur
• "Papi chulo... (te traigo el mmmm...)" - Lorna
• "Paris-Latino" - Star Academy France
• "Perfect" - Simple Plan
• "P.I.M.P." - 50 Cent
• "Pump It Up" - Joe Budden
• "Right Thurr" - Chingy
• "Remember" - Disturbed
• "Rock wit U (Awww Baby)" - Ashanti
• "Rock Your Body" - Justin Timberlake
• "Rollover DJ" - Jet
• "Save Yourself/Genie in a Bottle" - Speedway
• "Say You Will" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
• "Sing For The Moment" - Eminem
• "Shake Ya Tailfeather" - Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
• "So Yesterday" - Hilary Duff
• "Somewhere I Belong" - Linkin Park
• "Songbird" - Oasis
• "Spitting Games" - Snow Patrol
• "St. Anger" - Metallica
• "Stacy's Mom" - Fountains of Wayne
• "Stupid Girl" - Cold
• "Summer Jam" - The Underdog Project and Sunclub
• "Sur un air latino" - Lorie
• "Swing, Swing" - All American Rejects
• "The Anthem" - Good Charlotte
• "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" - Jason Mraz
• "The Voice Within" - Christina Aguilera
• "The Way You Move" - OutKast & Sleepy Brown
• "There There" - Radiohead
• "Times Like These" - Foo Fighters
• "Trouble" - Pink
• "Universally Speaking" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Unwell" - Matchbox Twenty
• "We Used To Be Friends" - Dandy Warhols
• "What Do You Want From Me?" - Alice Cooper
• "Where Is the Love?" - Black Eyed Peas
• "White Flag" - Dido
• "Will You" - P.O.D.
• "The Wreckoning" - Boomkat
• "Why Can't I?" - Liz Phair
• "Why Not?" - Hilary Duff
• "You Said No" - Busted

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2003 (USA)

Acclaimed Music

AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 2003

1. Elephant — The White Stripes
2. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below — OutKast
3. Boy in da Corner — Dizzee Rascal
4. Hail to the Thief — Radiohead
5. Chutes Too Narrow — The Shins
6. Think Tank — Blur
7. Permission to Land — The Darkness
8. De-Loused in the Comatorium — The Mars Volta
9. You Are Free — Cat Power
10. Room on Fire — The Strokes
11. Echoes — The Rapture
12. Fever to Tell — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Rounds — Four Tet
14. It Still Moves — My Morning Jacket
15. Up in Flames — Manitoba

AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 2003

1. "Hey Ya!" — OutKast
2. "Crazy in Love" — Beyoncé
3. "Seven Nation Army" — The White Stripes
4. "Toxic" — Britney Spears
5. "Milkshake" — Kelis
6. "In Da Club" — 50 Cent
7. "99 Problems" — Jay-Z
8. "Maps" — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. "Out of Time" — Blur
10. "Move Your Feet" — Junior Senior
11. "Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story)" — !!!
12. "I Luv U" — Dizzee Rascal
13. "Ignition (Remix)" — R. Kelly
14. "Such Great Heights — The Postal Service
15. "12:51" — The Strokes

Classical music

• Leonardo Balada - Ebony Fantasies (Cantata for Choir and Orchestra)
• George Crumb
  • A Journey Beyond Time for soprano, percussion quartet and piano.
  • Otherworldly Resonances for two pianos
  • River of Life for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
• Mario Davidovsky - Duo Capriccioso for piano and violin
• Andrew Glover- The Death of Angels: A Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
• Haflidi Hallgrímsson - Cello Concerto
• György Ligeti - Hamburg Concerto for solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra with 4 obligato Natural Horns (1998-99, 2003)
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Naxos Quartet No. 2
  • Naxos Quartet No. 3
• Alexander Raskatov - The Last Freedom

Opera

• Deborah Drattell - Nicholas and Alexandra
• Osvaldo Golijov - Ainadamar
• Michael Nyman - Man and Boy: Dada
• Krzysztof Penderecki - Ubu Rex
• Rachel Portman - The Little Prince

Musical theater

• Avenue Q Broadway production
• Bounce
• The Boy from Oz Broadway production
• Fame On 42nd Street opened at the Little Shubert Theatre on November 11 and ran for 264 performances
• The Full Monty Melbourne production
• Jerry Springer - The Opera London production
• Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat London revival
• Never Gonna Dance Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 4 and ran for 84 performances
• Showtune, a Jerry Herman musical revue, off-Broadway production
• Taboo Broadway production opened November 13 and ran for 103 performances.
• Thoroughly Modern Millie London production
• Tonight's The Night London production
• Wicked Broadway production opened at the George Gershwin Theatre on October 30.

Musical film

• Brother Bear Animated feature
• Camp
• Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
• The Jungle Book 2 animated feature
• The Singing Detective
• The Cheetah Girls A Disney Channel Original Movie the first musical film by Disney Channel bringing in over 84 million viewers.
• From Justin to Kelly

Births

• October 28 - Beatrice Millie McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. The McCartneys fooled the press into publishing misleading details about the birth.

Deaths

• January 1 - Giorgio Gaber (63), actor, singer-songwriter
• January 8 - Ron Goodwin (77), composer and conductor
• January 11 - Mickey Finn (55), bongo player and T.Rex sideman
• January 12 - Maurice Gibb (53), Bee Gees singer and bassist; cardiac arrest
• January 15 - Doris Fisher (87), singer-songwriter
• January 23 - Nell Carter (54), singer and actress; heart disease
• February 1 - Mongo Santamaría (80), Latin jazz percussionist
• February 2 - Lou Harrison (85), composer
• February 19 - Johnny Paycheck (65), country singer
• February 20 - Ty Longley (31), guitarist for Great White; fire accident
• February 23 - Howie Epstein (47), bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• March 3
  • Hank Ballard (74), R&B singer; throat cancer
  • Malcolm Williamson (71), composer
• March 8 - Adam Faith (62), singer, actor; heart attack
• April 1 - Leslie Cheung (46), actor, musician; suicide
• April 2 - Edwin Starr (61), soul singer; heart attack
• April 6 - Babatunde Olatunji (75), drummer; diabetes
• April 13 - Alex Baroni (35), singer; Accident
• April 15 - Little Eva (59), singer; cervical cancer
• April 17 - Earl King (69), blues musician
• April 19 - Conrad Leonard (104), composer and pianist
• April 21 - Nina Simone (70), singer and pianist
• April 22 - Felice Bryant (77), Hall of Fame songwriter
• May 11 - Noel Redding (57), bassist of The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• May 15 - June Carter Cash (73), musician and singer
• May 27 - Luciano Berio (77), composer
• May 30 - Mickie Most (64), record producer; mesothelioma
• June 6 - Dave Rowberry (63), The Animals
• July 1 - Herbie Mann (73), jazz flautist; prostate cancer
• July 4
  • André Claveau (87), singer
  • Barry White (58), singer and record producer; renal failure
• July 5 - Bebu Silvetti (59), pianist, composer, arranger and record producer; respiratory failure
• July 6 - Buddy Ebsen (95), actor and singer
• July 7 - Izhak Graziani (79), conductor
• July 12 - Benny Carter (95), jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader; bronchitis
• July 16 - Celia Cruz (77), salsa singer; brain tumor
• July 17 - Rosalyn Tureck (88), pianist
• July 25 - Erik Braunn, Iron Butterfly
• July 26 - Richard Wayne Dirksen (81), organist and choirmaster
• July 27 - Bob Hope (100), actor, comedian and singer
• July 30 - Sam Philips (80)
• August 2 - Don Estelle (70), actor and singer
• August 5 - Tite Curet Alonso (77), songwriter; heart attack
• August 8 - Julius Baker (87), flautist
• August 9 - Gregory Hines (58), actor, singer and dancer
• August 10 - Carmita Jiménez, singer
• August 13 - Ed Townsend (74), singer-songwriter
• August 21 - Wesley Willis (40), novelty musician
• August 23 - Imperio Argentina (96), singer and actress
• September 4
  • Lola Bobesco (82), violinist
  • Tibor Varga (82), violinist and conductor
• September 5 - Gisele MacKenzie (76), singer
• September 7 - Warren Zevon (56), rock and roll singer; mesothelioma
• September 12 - Johnny Cash (71), country and rock 'n roll singer
• September 14 - John Serry, Sr. (88) concert accordionist, organist, composer, arranger
• September 19 - Slim Dusty (76), country singer
• September 26 - Robert Palmer (54), singer; heart attack
• September 27 - Donald O'Connor (78), actor, singer and dancer; congestive heart failure
• October 5 - Denis Quilley (75), actor and singer; liver cancer
• October 10 - Eugene Istomin (77), pianist; liver cancer
• October 21 - Elliott Smith (34), singer-songwriter
• October 23 - Tony Capstick (59), comedian, actor and musician
• October 24 - Rosie Nix Adams, singer-songwriter
• October 29 - Franco Corelli (82), operatic tenor
• November 5 - Bobby Hatfield (63), The Righteous Brothers
• November 12 - Tony Thompson (48), drummer for Chic; kidney cancer
• November 14 - Gene Anthony Ray (41), actor and dancer
• November 15 - Dorothy Loudon (70), actress and singer
• November 17
  • Arthur Conley (57), soul singer; intestinal cancer
  • Don Gibson (75), country musician
• November 18 - Michael Kamen (55), composer, conductor and musician; heart attack
• November 26 - Soulja Slim (26), rapper; homicide
• November 28 - Zekra (?), Iconic Tunisian Singer, homicide
• December 8 - Rubén González (84), pianist
• December 16 - Gary Stewart (58), country singer; suicide
• December 22 - Dave Dudley (75), country singer; heart attack
• December 27 - Vestal Goodman (74), gospel singer; influenza complications
• December 30 - Anita Mui (40), Hong Kong pop queen

Awards

Miscellaneous

• Leonard Cohen is made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honour.

ARIA Music Awards

• ARIA Music Awards of 2003

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2003

Mercury Music Prize

• Boy in Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal wins.

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

External links

For a more detailed list of hits or albums by month, see http://www.pauseandplay.com/cdfront.htm