This is a summary of1999 in music in the United Kingdom.

• January – The filmHilary and Jackie, starringEmily Watson andJames Frain asJacqueline du Pré andDaniel Barenboim, is released.^[1]
• 3 January –Steps score their first number one in the UK singles chart with "Heartbeat / Tragedy".^[2]
• 7 January
  • After eight years of marriage,Rod Stewart and his wifeRachel Hunter announce they are separating.
  • Paul McCartney is present at his daughterHeather's latest launch event inGeorgia, United States.
• 10 February –Iron Maiden announces that singerBruce Dickinson and guitaristAdrian Smith have rejoined the band, while lead singerBlaze Bayley has left. This means the band now has three lead guitarists.^[3]
• 14 February –Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated seriesThe Simpsons
• 16 February –Belle & Sebastian win the British Breakthrough Award at theBrit Awards, leading to allegations that voting was rigged in their favour and thatSteps would have won. Fans of Belle & Sebastian argued that the band have a large student following, and felt that the award should be given in recognition of artistic merit, rather than popularity or CD sales.
• 25 February – The Quintet for trumpet and strings byPeter Maxwell Davies is performed for the first time in the Mitchell Hall,University of Aberdeen.
• 21 March – Irish girl groupB*Witched score a fourth consecutive number one in the UK singles chart with "Blame It on the Weatherman", thus becoming the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top and setting a new record that would be broken a year later byWestlife.
• 10 April – A charity tribute, theConcert for Linda McCartney, is held at theRoyal Albert Hall in London, hosted byEddie Izzard, with proceeds going to animal rights causes. Performers includePaul McCartney,Chrissie Hynde,Elvis Costello,Sinéad O'Connor, andTom Jones.^[4]
• 28 April –The Verve split for the second time. FrontmanRichard Ashcroft launches a solo career.
• 27 May – TheBritish Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors establishes its new fellowship, the first recipient beingMartin Gore.^[5][6]
• 7 June –S Club 7 release their debut single "Bring It All Back", which goes to number one in the UK singles chart.
• 27 June – The first performance ofTobias and the Angel, a one act church cantata byJonathan Dove, takes place at Christ Church,Highbury as part of the Almeida Festival, directed by Kate Brown.
• 28 August – FormerDexys Midnight Runners frontmanKevin Rowland is bottled offstage at theReading Festival, which saw him perform "The Greatest Love of All" whilst wearing a white dress.
• 29 August –Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs andPaul "Guigsy" McGuigan leaveOasis. They are replaced byColin "Gem" Archer, formerly ofHeavy Stereo andAndy Bell, formerly ofRide andHurricane#1.
• 18 September – The first performance ofCyril Rootham‘sThe Lady of Shalott, a setting ofTennyson’s poem for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra, takes place in the School Hall,Eton College, by the Broadheath Singers and the Windsor Sinfonia, conducted by Robert Tucker. Rootham wrote the piece circa 1909–1910, but it was not performed in his lifetime.
• 21 September –David Bowie releasesHours, his twenty-first studio album and the first by a major artist to be made legally available as an electronic download.^[7]
• 12 November – AtBristol Crown Court, former glam rock starGary Glitter is jailed for four months for downloadingchild pornography.^[8]
• 2 December –James MacMillan's Symphony No. 2 receives its premiere atAyr Town Hall by the Scottish Chamber Symphony, with the composer conducting.^[9]
• 30 December –George Harrison and his wifeOlivia fight off a knife attack by an intruder in hisFriar Park home.^[10]
• December –Alan McGee announces the dissolution ofCreation Records after 16 years. The final release for the label would bePrimal Scream's album "XTRMNTR", released in January 2000.

• Arthur Butterworth –Bubu for English horn, viola and harp, Op. 107
• Alun Hoddinott – Symphony No. 10
• Joe Jackson –Symphony No. 1
• James MacMillan,Symphony No. 2
• Julian Stewart Lindsay –Vox Dei
• Roger Smalley –Crepuscule, for piano quartet
• Raymond Yiu –Tranced^[11]

• David Blake –Scoring A Century^[12]
• Jonathan Dove –Tobias and the Angel

• 6 April –Mamma Mia!, with book byCatherine Johnson and songs byBjörn Ulvaeus andBenny Andersson, opens at thePrince Edward Theatre. It would later transfer to thePrince of Wales Theatre on 9 June 2004, continuing its run until September 2012, when it moved to theNovello Theatre.^[13]

• Topsy-Turvy, starringAllan Corduner as SirArthur Sullivan andJim Broadbent asW. S. Gilbert^[14]

• Michael Nyman –Wonderland^[15]
• Rachel Portman –The Cider House Rules^[16]

• Murray Gold –Queer as Folk^[17]

The 1999BRIT Awards winners were:^[18]

• Best soundtrack:Titanic
• British album:Manic Street Preachers –This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
• British breakthrough act:Belle & Sebastian
• British dance act:Fatboy Slim
• British female solo artist:Des'ree
• British group:Manic Street Preachers
• British male solo artist:Robbie Williams
• British single:Robbie Williams – "Angels"
• British video:Robbie Williams – "Millennium"
• International breakthrough act:Natalie Imbruglia
• International female:Natalie Imbruglia
• International group:The Corrs
• International male:Beck
• Outstanding contribution:Eurythmics

The 1999Mercury Music Prize was awarded toTalvin Singh –Ok.

The Record of the Year was awarded to "Flying Without Wings" byWestlife.

• 28 January –Hrvy, singer
• April –S1mba, rapper^[19]
• 4 April –Sheku Kanneh-Mason, award-winning cellist
• 9 December –Aitch, rapper^[20]

• 14 January –Bryn Jones, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, 37 (infection)^[21]
• 23 February –Ruth Gipps, composer, oboist, pianist and impresario, 78^[22]
• 2 March –Dusty Springfield, singer, 59 (breast cancer)
• 12 March –Yehudi Menuhin, violinist and musical director, 82
• 21 March –Ernie Wise, entertainer, 73^[23]
• 3 April –Lionel Bart, songwriter, 68 (cancer)
• 6 April –William Pleeth, cellist, 83
• 14 April –Anthony Newley, songwriter, actor and singer, 67
• 26 April –Adrian Borland, songwriter, 41
• 29 April –Perry Ford, singer, 65
• 30 April –Darrell Sweet, drummer, 51
• 18 May –Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeter, 78
• 19 May –James Blades, orchestral percussionist, 97^[24]
• 16 June –Screaming Lord Sutch, pop musician and politician, 58
• 12 July –Bill Owen, actor and songwriter, 85 (pancreatic cancer)^[25]
• 17 July –Kevin Wilkinson, drummer, 41
• 27 July –Amaryllis Fleming, cellist, 73
• 2 August –Eric Hope, pianist, 84
• 25 August –Rob Fisher, keyboard player, 42
• 17 September –Frankie Vaughan, singer, 71 (heart failure)
• 1 October –Lena Zavaroni, singer, 35 (pneumonia)^[26]
• 7 October –Deryck Guyler, actor and washboard player, 85^[27]
• 15 October –Josef Locke, tenor, 82^[28]
• 18 October –Tony Crombie, jazz drummer, pianist, composer and bandleader, 74
• 21 October –Queenie Ashton, singer and actress, 96
• 31 October –Howard Ferguson, composer and musicologist, 91
• 11 November –Thomas Pitfield, composer, artist and writer, 96^[29]
• 14 November –Minna Keal, composer, 90
• 7 December –Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter, 78^[30]

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