September 2005 in Music History

Events in Music

Video Music Awards

Sep 1 22nd MTV Video Music Awards: Green Day, Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West win

Music Single

Sep 15 "Be Without You" single released by Mary J. Blige (Billboard Song of the Year 2006, Grammy Award Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2005)

Hall of Fame

Sep 17 Diana DeGarmo receives the Horizon Award at the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame Awards ceremony

Farm Aid Concert

Sep 18 Farm Aid 18 held in Tinley Park, Illinois; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Buddy Guy, Emmylou Harris, James McMurtry, Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, John Mayer, Kathleen Edwards, Kenny Chesney, Susan Tedeschi, Widespread Panic, and Wilco

Weddings in Music

Peter Andre

Sep 10 Glamour model Katie Price (27) weds 90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (32) in Highclere Castle, Hampshire

Sep 10 "The Yardbirds" rock guitarist Jeff Beck (61) weds Sandra Cash in Tunbridge Wells, England
Sep 17 Country music singer Terri Clark (37) weds her tour manager Greg Kaczor at a resort on Lake Louise in Calgary, Canada
Sep 24 "30 Minute Meals" TV host Rachael Ray (37) weds "The Cringe" lead singer John Cusimano in Montalcino, Italy
Sep 26 Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver (66) weds Wanda Lynn Canady in Corsicana, Texas

Deaths in Music

Sep 1 R. L. Burnside, American blues musician (Deep Blues), dies at 78 (b. 1926)
Sep 7 Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer Marianne), dies at 72
Sep 10 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues singer (Mary is Fine), dies at 81
Sep 14 Robert Wise, American Academy Award-winning film director (The Day the Earth Stood Still; West Side Story; The Sound Of Music), dies of heat failure at 91
Sep 16 Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), Canadian composer, dies at 83
Sep 16 Constance Moore, American singer and actress (Buck Rogers; Show Business; Atlantic City), dies at 85
Sep 17 Alfred Reed, American composer, dies at 84
Sep 25 Georges Arvanitas, French jazz pianist and organist, dies at 74