60 YEARS OF THE ROCK ERA. This update: 1997.

60 YEARS OF

ROCK

(1955-2015)

1997

 
   

 

    
   

-Daft Punk releases its debut album.

-Notorious B.I.G. is shot dead. 

-The Spice Girls become the 1st act to score 4 #1 singles in a row on the UK chart.

-Paul McCartney is knighted.

-Katrina & The Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with "Love Shine A Light". 

-Michael Jackson's 'Blood on the Dance Floor' becomes the best selling remix album ever, selling 15 million. 

-Fleetwood Mac re-united for live album 'The Dance'. 

-Notorious B.I.G. becomes the 1st artist to score 2 posthumous US chart #1 singles.

-Elton John performs "Candle in the Wind" with new lyrics at Princess Diana's funeral.

-The Rolling Stones benefit from the success of The Verve's "Bittersweet Sympathy".

-Bill Berry leaves R.E.M.

-The Spice Girls part ways with Simon Fuller.

-Gary Glitter is arrested for possession of child pornography.
-INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence is found dead.

        

   
     
 
  

Despite changing technologies, Elton John demonstrated the power of a song when he performed a new version of "Candle In The Wind" at the funeral of his friend Princess Diana. The charity single was a lengthy #1 single across the grieving globe. The re-written song was later declared the best selling single of all-time. Blur explored lo-fi with its self-titled album in 1997. The Spice Girls' worldwide invasion continued. Radiohead wowed with new album 'OK Computer'.