Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

* The Cardinals ( rock band ), a group formed in 2003

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

Brandon Cruz left the band in May 2003 and was replaced by Jeff Penalty.

The band released a full length album in September 2003 entitled " Money Money 2020 " and then a live DVD, " Disease is Punishment ".

* In 2003, Danish rock band Blindstone recorded a song titled " By Grabthar's Hammer " for their album Manifesto.

* Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf

The set features the entire album recorded in its original running order during a tour of England by Lee in early 2003 in which he was backed by the band Baby Lemonade and string and horn ensembles.

* Lamentations ( Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003 ), a live DVD by Progressive metal band Opeth

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium.

* Kev Hopper, formerly the bass guitarist in the 1980s band Stump, made an album entitled Saurus in 2003 featuring six original saw tunes.

* Office of Strategic Influence ( album ), the 2003 debut album by the band OSI

* 1918 – Chubby Jackson, American jazz double-bassist and band leader ( d. 2003 )

For example, the intense backlash against country band the Dixie Chicks, for remarks critical of President George W. Bush onstage in London in 2003, was described by newspaper columnist Don Williams as the price for freely speaking political views disapproved by supporters of the Iraq War.

In 2003, a series of phone calls between band members resulted in some low-key rehearsals, and soon to a decision to reunite.

The band was one of a number of hometown favourites to play Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, also dubbed SARStock, at Downsview Park in Toronto on July 30, 2003, with an attendance of over half a million people.

" Another example of this bias was that the album Nevermind, by grunge band Nirvana, was given three stars in its original review, despite being placed at No. 17 in " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " list in 2003.

The band released The Photograph Kills EP in 1995 as well as three full length records, Gaslight ( 1998 ), Bastard Life or Clarity ( 2001 ) and Other Ways of Speaking ( 2003 ).

To date, the band has recorded seven studio albums: Tormented ( 1996 ), Dysfunction ( 1999 ), Break the Cycle ( 2001 ), 14 Shades of Grey ( 2003 ), Chapter V ( 2005 ), The Illusion of Progress ( 2008 ), and their self-titled album ( 2011 ).

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

Heavy metal band Slough Feg issued a Traveller based concept album, appropriately titled Traveller in 2003.

The band have since released two albums of original material with Paul McLoone: Get What You Need on 30 September 2003 and Dig Yourself Deep, on 15 October 2007.

* 2003: English soprano Sarah Brightman sampled " Un bel dì vedremo " in her song " It's a beautiful day ", included in her album Harem ; that song in turn was a cover of the 2000 song "" Ein schöner Tag " on the album Weltreise by the German band Schiller.

In June 2003, the U. S. Government announced that AES could be used to protect classified information:

In December 2003 Aston Martin announced it would return to motor racing in 2005.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

Robert Mugabe announced Zimbabwe's immediate withdrawal from the Commonwealth at the 2003 CHOGM, and Nigeria's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others on the first day of the 1995 CHOGM led to that country's suspension.

Begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003, Craig Venter announced the full Expedition on 4 March 2004.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

In 20 April 2003, chancellor Schröder announced massive labor market reforms, called Agenda 2010, that cut in unemployment benefits.

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

On 25 August 2004, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price announced his intention to move for the impeachment of Tony Blair for his role in involving Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

However, in 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin had ingested flavorless warfarin, a powerful rat poison that inhibits coagulation of the blood and which predisposes the victim to hemorrhagic stroke ( cerebral hemorrhage ).

* 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

By June 2003, the lower house of Parliament announced that President Akayev and two other " puppet " leaders of Kyrgyzstan, from the Soviet era, would be given lifetime immunity from prosecution, raising the prospect of Akayev finally stepping down.

In February 2003, Spacey announced that he was returning to London to become the artistic director of the Old Vic, one of the city's oldest theatres.

He then directed two films in his announced ' U. S. trilogy ': Dogville ( 2003 ), starring Nicole Kidman and Manderlay ( 2005 ), starring Bryce Dallas Howard in the same role – as Grace.

In 2003 Ravalomanana announced the Durban Vision, an initiative to more than triple the island's protected natural areas to over or 10 percent of Madagascar's land surface.

In July 2001, Epic Games announced that its upcoming game Unreal Tournament 2003 would include Matinee, a machinima production software utility.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

On August 2, 2003, scientists announced that the depletion of the ozone layer may be slowing down due to the international ban on CFCs.

In November, 2003, it was announced that pathological anatomists would be exhuming Petrarch's body from his casket in Arquà Petrarca, in order to verify 19th-century reports that he had stood 1. 83 meters ( about six feet ), which would have been tall for his period.

The creation of the Consultative Council in the early 1990s did not satisfy demands for political participation, and, in 2003, an annual National Dialogue Forum was announced that would allow selected professionals and intellectuals to publicly debate current national issues, within certain prescribed parameters.

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

In January 2003, SGI announced a variant of the SN platform called the Altix 3000 ( internally called SN-IA ).

On 7 October 2003 the South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen accused of killing Biko would not be prosecuted, because there was insufficient evidence, and because the time limit for prosecution had elapsed.

In May 2003 Bracks broke an election promise and announced that the proposed Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne's eastern suburbs would be a tollway rather than a freeway, as promised at the 2002 elections.