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- Pearl Jam played the first show of the North American leg of their Binaural Tour in Virginia Beach.
- They played a free protest concert in Los Angeles across the street from Staples Center, where the Democratic National Convention was being held. After the concert, police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of 9,000 people after the event turned violent.
- Bon Jovi played the final concert at the historic Wembley Stadium before its demolition.
- At the Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festival in England, performers included Oasis, Primal Scream, Foo Fighters, The Bluetones, Muse, Eminem, Beck, Stereophonics, Blink 182, Slipknot, Placebo, Pulp, Rage Against The Machine, Gomez, Limp Bizkit, Embrace and The Wannadies.
- Black Sabbath, Linkin Park, Slipknot and Marilyn Manson performed at Ozzfest at the PNC Bank Arts Centre in New Jersey.
- Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted performed live with EchoBrain for the first time.
- The Backstreet Boys resumed their Black & Blue World Tour 2001, which had been interrupted on July 9 after A.J. McLean entered a treatment center.
- Performers at the Carling Weekend Reading/Leeds festival included Travis, Eminem, Eels, Green Day, Marilyn Manson, Supergrass, PJ Harvey, Manic Street Preachers, Weezer, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cult, Frank Black, The Strokes, Ash, Stephen Malkmus, Mercury Rev and others. A three-day ticket cost £80.
- Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nelly Furtado were the headline acts at the V2001 festival in Hylands Park in Chelmsford, England.
- Thousands more fans than expected arrived for a free System Of A Down concert in a Los Angeles parking lot. Authorities prevented the band from performing, riots followed, the group’s equipment was destroyed and six people were arrested. The concert was intended to celebrate the release of the album Toxicity the following day.
- Britney Spears performed her new single "I'm A Slave 4 U" at the MTV Video Music Awards, appearing on stage with a snake.
- Michael Jackson performed the first of two concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York as part of celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of his career. After an eleven-year break, he returned to the stage in the US together with the Jackson Five. The celebration also featured Eminem, Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight, Britney Spears, Destiny’s Child, Slash and 'N Sync. Footage from the concerts was edited and broadcast by CBS as a special on November 13.
- After a 37-year absence, Bob Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival, performing a two-hour, 19-song set.
- Diana Ross canceled the remaining dates of her summer North American concert tour. No reason for the cancellation was announced.
- Mobile Graceland began its journey through 31 cities in Memphis.
- The Rolling Stones began their 40th anniversary Licks Tour with a concert at FleetCenter in Boston. The best seats cost $224, and during the more than 100 concerts on the tour, the group performed for more than 2.5 million fans.
- A concert celebrating the start of the NFL season was held in New York City, featuring Eve, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Enrique Iglesias and Joey Fatone.
- Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors performed together for the first time as "The Doors of the 21st Century", with singer Ian Astbury and drummer Stewart Copeland. The concert took place as part of the Harley-Davidson Open Road Tour at California Speedway in Fontana.
- Frankie Miller returned to Glasgow for a benefit concert at Barrowlands, with proceeds going to the Drake Music Project. The concert featured, among others, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Nazareth, Gallagher & Lyle, Hamish Stuart, Brian Robertson, Ray Wilson and Joe Walsh. Miller was present at the concert but could no longer perform because of the brain hemorrhage he suffered in 1994.
- Robbie Williams performed at Knebworth and sang “Back for Good” with Mark Owen during the show.
- Roger Daltrey performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in a production of “My Fair Lady.”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled their tour after a doctor advised guitarist Gary Rossington to rest because of serious health problems.
- Dick Peterson of The Kingsmen joined 753 other guitarists to play „Louie Louie“ together at a charity event in Tacoma, Washington.
- Britney Spears and Madonna kissed during the opening performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Madonna then kissed Christina Aguilera, but the director switched the shot to Justin Timberlake in the audience.
- At the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Athens, Björk performed “Oceania” in a giant dress whose fabric unfolded to approximately 10,000 feet and covered the area for spectators, onto which a world map was then projected.
- At the Coventry festival in Vermont, they performed what they described as their final concert. The group reunited in 2009.
- At the British Carling Weekend festival in Reading and Leeds, Green Day, The Darkness, The White Stripes, Morrissey, The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, 50 Cent, The Streets, The Vines, Soulwax, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Offspring, Ash, Placebo and Lostprophets performed.
- The Rolling Stones held a surprise warm-up concert at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto ahead of the A Bigger Bang tour. Tickets cost $10 and the club had a capacity of approximately 1,000 people.
- On the day Phil Lynott would have celebrated his 56th birthday, a concert was held in Dublin featuring Thin Lizzy members Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy's original lead guitarist, and Gary Moore shared lead vocals and guitar on the famous song “Whiskey In The Jar”.
- Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age collapsed from exhaustion during a concert in Hamburg, Germany.
- Drake made his professional debut with a thirty-minute performance at Kool Haus in Toronto, opening for Ice Cube. He earned $100 for it.
- The Rolling Stones played the first of two concerts at Twickenham Stadium as part of the A Bigger Bang tour. Feeder and The Charlatans also performed.
- Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco and The Subways performed on the first day of the three-day Reading Festival in Leeds and Reading, England.
- The Rolling Stones performed at Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England, as part of their “A Bigger Bang” world tour. The legendary rock band played on a notoriously rainy night, but the wet weather did not reduce the energy of the crowd on the stadium floor.
- Laura Marling performed alongside Crystal Castles and Mystery Jets at the first Underage Festival in Victoria Park, London. The festival was open exclusively to attendees aged 13 to 17.
- Amy Winehouse canceled two scheduled performances in Hamburg, where she was due to open for The Rolling Stones. She cited exhaustion as the reason; Starsailor replaced her.
- On the first day of the British Carling Weekend Reading Festival in Leeds and Reading, performers included Kings of Leon, Razorlight and Jimmy Eat World.
- The Rolling Stones concluded their two-year A Bigger Bang World Tour with the final concert at London's O2 Arena. The tour became the highest-grossing rock tour up to that time, with gross revenues of $558 million.
- The Police played the first UK concert of their reunion tour, performing for two nights at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England.
- The Police zakončili své reunionové turné koncertem v Madison Square Garden v New Yorku. Šlo o jejich první turné od roku 1986, mělo celkem 151 vystoupení a podle zdroje bylo třetím nejvýdělečnějším turné všech dob.
- Madonna launched her Sticky & Sweet Tour at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, in support of the album “Hard Candy”. It was her first tour as part of her partnership with Live Nation and, after being extended into 2009, became the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, with 85 concerts in 32 countries grossing approximately $408 million and attracting more than 3.5 million fans. The tour surpassed the previous record Madonna had set with her Confessions Tour in 2006.
- Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page performed at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics at the National Stadium, where they performed the Led Zeppelin classic „Whole Lotta Love“ together.