* MV Celebrity Mercury, a cruise ship built in 1997

He received the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for his participation in " Mission Impertinent " ( San Jose Mercury News West Magazine, November 16, 1997 ).

In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997.

In January 1997, Queen performed " The Show Must Go On " live with Elton John and the Berjart Ballet in Paris on a night in which Freddie Mercury was remembered, and it marked the last performance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire.

Hanson's popularity exploded during the summer of 1997, and Mercury Records released Hanson's first documentary Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere and their Christmas album Snowed In in the wake of their success.

Ford Motor Company had the Lorain Assembly Plant in the city, mostly known for assembling the Ford Econoline ( E-series ) van, Ford Torino and Mercury Montego, and beginning in 1975 the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar ( through 1997 ); the plant ceased all production on December 14, 2005 because the UAW and Ford management were unable to come to terms on a new contract.

At the onset of the WNBA in 1997, she went to the Phoenix Mercury, for whom she played in the Finals in 1998, losing to the Houston Comets.

She averaged 4. 6 points and 4. 0 assists per game with the Mercury ; her highest scoring average in one season being 12. 1 points per game in 1997.

In 1997, Colangelo's team in the Women's National Basketball Association, the Phoenix Mercury, began playing.

Bhatia's success has earned him widespread acclaim ; the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson named him ' Entrepreneur of the Year 1997 ', MIT chose him as one of 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on technology and awarded ' TR100 ', San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine selected him as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs of 1998 and Upside magazine's list of top trend setters in the New Economy named him ' Elite 100 '.

Although Mercury was not the first nameplate to introduce a SUV ( following the Range Rover and the Oldsmobile Bravada ), the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was among one of the first to popularize luxury SUVs.

Freddie Mercury had died in November 1991, nearly a decade before this version's release and John Deacon also retired from public life in 1997 three years before it.

1995 – 1997 Mercury Mystique

In 1997, PolyGram, looking to cut costs in anticipation of a merger with a competitor, consolidated all of its Nashville operations under the Mercury name.

In 1997, he was imprisoned the same year he received four Brit Awards nominations, Mercury Prize nomination, an MTV Europe Music Awards nomination, and five Music of Black Origin Awards ( MOBO ) nominations as the single Return of the Mack began to climb its way to # 2 on the American Billboard charts receiving platinum status en-route.

* African Soul-The Very Best Of ( 1997 ) Mercury

On May 6, 1997, the band released their first major studio album, Middle of Nowhere, with Mercury Records.

Their breakthrough album, Tip, was released on Mercury Records in Canada in 1997 and re-released by Windup Records in the United States in 1998.

In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom ( via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C & W in 1997 ).

In 1997, Mercury was merged with three cable operators in the UK ( Vidéotron, Nynex, and Bell Cablemedia and renamed Cable & Wireless Communications.

Their debut album New Forms won the Mercury Music Prize in 1997.

* " Earth Pioneers " ( Talkin ' Loud / Mercury Records, 1997 )

Before starting work on the album, the band toured with Full Cycle DJs Krust and Die ( in fact, their band with Roni Size, Reprazent, won the Mercury Prize in 1997 and thus put the kibosh on a notion to have them produce )-- and by a scattershot approach to production: Tchad Blake ( Soul C's Ruby Vroom, Latin Playboys, Sheryl Crow ) Pat Dillett ( They Might Be Giants, Doveman, Mary J. Blige ), and British drum and bass DJ Optical ( Goldie, Grooverider, Ed Rush.

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century ( 1997 )

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century ( 1997 )

* 1997 – Max Records, American actor

In 1997, after many years of hard work, Berry released a solo album called Second Wave on One Way Records.

Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.

* Legion Records, started in 1997 by Michael Brosnan under the name Goatboy Records then changed to Goatboy Farms Recordings

( WordSound Records, later reissued by Tommy Boy / Warner Bros. Records in 1997 with bonus cuts )

* Mount Everest ( Creation Records, 1997 )

Alright ", " On the Line " and " Holiday Inn " ( Creation Records, 1997 )

In 1994 James Sedares conducted a re-recording of the score performed by The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra ( which also included a suite from Bernstein's score for The Hallelujah Trail, issued by Koch Records ; Bernstein himself conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a performance released by RCA in 1997, but the original film soundtrack was not released until the following year by Rykodisc ( Varèse Sarabande reissued this album in 2004 ).

Interscope Records released Transister's self-titled debut in the US in 1997 ; UK and international distribution was handled by Virgin Records.

In September 1997, Rising Records released a remixed, re-sequenced Among Us, a CD by Simon Townshend, younger brother of the Who's Pete Townshend.

In 2010, Bill Hurd's Rubettes covered the 1997 Thorpe composition ' Where the Angels Fear to Tread ' on their album ' 21st Century Rock ' n ' Roll ' on ' Angel Air Records '.

The previously Top Secret document was finally declassified 33 years later and made public on 18 November 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board.

This Strange Engine was released in 1997 with little promotion from their new label Castle Records, and the band could not afford to make tour stops in the United States.

Hot Rod Circuit formed in Montgomery in 1997 under the name Antidote, but achieved success with Vagrant Records after moving to Connecticut.

* Bruder, Harold, Liner Notes, Maurice Renaud: The Complete Gramophone Recordings 1901 – 1908, Marston Records, 1997.

By this time, the music videos and concert specials that the channel ran since the 1997 rebrand were dropped, citing the inability to receive a stake in revenue from the artists ' CD sales and lack of exclusivity for the videos ; soon after, the channel began to incorporate music videos from songs featured in Disney's feature films and performed by artists on Radio Disney and signed by Disney's in-house record companies Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records.

In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums.

The band signed a recording contract with Big Cat Records in 1997, and released Available In All Colours the following year.

A posthumous compilation album of singles and live tracks entitled " Exhibit A " was released on Kustomized Records in 1997.