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This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2015 in music.
Specific locations
- African music
- American music
- Australian music
- Brazilian music
- British music
- Canadian music
- Chinese music
- Danish music
- European music (Continental Europe)
- Finnish music
- French music
- German music
- Icelandic music
- Indian music
- Irish music
- Japanese music
- Malaysian music
- Mongolian music
- North Korean music
- Norwegian music
- Philippine music
- Polynesian music
- South Korean music
- Swedish music
- Taiwanese music
- Vietnamese music
- World music
Specific genres
Albums released
Awards
Bands formed
See Category:Musical groups established in 2015
Bands reformed
- 13th Floor Elevators
- The Academy Is...
- A-ha
- Aiden
- Alexisonfire
- Armor for Sleep
- At the Drive-In
- Bay City Rollers
- The Black Eyed Peas
- Black Grape
- The Bluetones
- Brooks & Dunn
- Busted
- The Corrs
- Daphne and Celeste
- Dashboard Confessional
- Digable Planets
- Disturbed
- Evanescence
- Faithless
- Good Charlotte
- LCD Soundsystem
- Lush
- The Matches
- Pist.On
- The Promise Ring
- Rainbow
- Royal Trux
- Savatage
- Simply Red
- The Starting Line
- Supertramp
- Symphony Number One
- Thrice
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Underoath
- Ween
Bands disbanded
- 3 Inches of Blood
- Avi Buffalo
- The Black Crowes
- Bloodhound Gang
- Burzum
- California Breed
- Cali Swag District
- CBS Orchestra
- Cobra Starship
- Device
- Eastern Conference Champions
- Erase Errata
- Flesh for Lulu
- Framing Hanley
- Funeral For a Friend
- Goodbye to Gravity
- G.R.L.
- I, the Breather
- James Last Orchestra
- Kill Hannah
- Klaxons
- Maybeshewill
- Mean Creek
- MellowHype
- Mötley Crüe
- Motörhead
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Noah and the Whale
- Obits
- Odd Future
- The Replacements
- Rise to Remain
- The Rosso Sisters
- Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts
- Sleeper Agent
- Stereo Kicks
- Tangerine Dream
- Texas in July
- The Weakerthans
Deaths
- 1 – Matthew Cogley (30), British musician and songwriter (Failsafe).[1]
- 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer.[2]
- 22 – Joan Hinde (81), British trumpet player.
- 27 – Margot Moir (55), Scottish-born Australian singer (The Moir Sisters).[3]
- 29 – Danny McCulloch (69), British bassist (Eric Burdon & The Animals).
- 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage).[4]
- 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter.[5]
- 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.[6]
- 21 – Jørgen Ingmann, (89), Danish guitarist.[7]
- 1 – Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum).[8]
- 3 – Andrew Porter (86), British organist, music critic, and opera director[9]
- 10 – Ronald Hambleton (97), English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star).[10]
- 13 – Ronnie Carroll (80), Northern Irish singer.
- 17 – Brian Couzens (86), British music industry executive (Chandos Records).[11]
- 14 – B.B. King (89), American blues guitarist.[12]
- 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist.[13]
- 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter.[14]
- 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.[15]
- 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist.[16]
- 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress.[17]
- 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player.[18]
- 1 Val Doonican (88), Irish-born singer. Edward Greenfield (86), British music critic and broadcaster.[19]
- 13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them, Thin Lizzy).[20]
- 22 Daron Norwood (49), American country music singer Eddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point).
- 1 – Cilla Black (72), British singer and presenter.
- 12 – John Scott (59), British organist and choirmaster.[21]
- 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters, The Verve, Snow Patrol), (lung cancer)[22]
- 29 – Phil Woods (83), American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.[23]
- 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.[24]
- 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer.[25]
- 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (92).[26]
- 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer (74).[27]
- 3 – Scott Weiland (48), American musician, singer and songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy)
- 28 – Ian Kilmister (Lemmy) (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Rockin' Vickers and Headcat)
- 30 – Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer.
- 31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).[28]
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