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| 1980
Bands formed
Aztec Camera Anti-Nowhere League Bad Religion Böhse Onkelz Bow Wow Wow Depeche Mode The Church Einstürzende Neubauten The Fixx Flux of Pink Indians A Flock of Seagulls Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Level 42 Meat Puppets Mercyful Fate Minor Threat Missing Persons Mission of Burma New Model Army Quarterflash R.E.M. Reagan Youth The Sisters of Mercy The Smithereens Soft Cell Tom Tom Club The Vandals Warumpi Band The Zorros
Bands disbanded
Seals & Crofts Bachman-Turner Overdrive break up (they reform periodically over the years) The Eagles break up (they reform in 1994) The Germs George Clinton dissolves Parliament-Funkadelic Horslips Gentle Giant The Buggles (Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes join Yes) The Tourists disband and become Eurythmics Boys Next Door disband and become The Birthday Party Wire disband (they reform in 1985) Joy Division Led Zeppelin[Later to reform in 2008 with Jason Bonham on drums (John Boham's son)
Events
January 1 - The year starts off with a strong disco backlash, which causes the majority of musicians to abandon the use of real instruments in an attempt to distant themselves from anything associated with disco. The decade will be dominated by electronically made music and numerous musicians who had played in disco orchestras find themselves without a job. Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and Elton John
January 1 The Melbourne Music scene explodes with independent bands, with various influences from US and UK Punk/New Wave. The Zorros audition Drummer Greg Pedley on new years day.
January 7 - At the age of 45, songwriter Larry Williams is found dead in his Los Angeles, California home of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators are never able to determine whether his death was a murder or suicide.
January 13 - The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Starship perform at a benefit concert at Oakland Coliseum for the people of Kampuchea.
January 16 - Paul McCartney is arrested in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. The remaining part of McCartney's tour had to be canceled.
January 25 - Paul McCartney is released from a Japanese jail and is kicked out of the country by Japanese authorities.
January - Daniel Amos and Randy Stonehill wrap up the first part of the Amos and Randy Tour in Toronto. Both artists are joined on stage by Larry Norman for an encore. The event makes the news on local television and newspapers.
January - The Buggles created their Music video for their song Living in the Plastic Age.
February 8 - David Bowie and his wife of nearly 10 years, Angie, file for divorce. Bowie gets custody of their 9 year old son, Zowie
February 14 - Lou Reed marries Sylvia Morales in New York City's Greenwich Village
February 19 - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, dies in London. Although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration of vomit as the cause of his death, the official cause was listed as "Acute alcohol poisoning" and "Death by Misadventure".
February 29 - Buddy Holly's trademark eyeglasses and the Big Bopper's wristwatch are "rediscovered" in old police files by the Mason City, Iowa Sheriff. Holly and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 along with singer Ritchie Valens.
March 1 - Patti Smith marries former MC5 member Fred Sonic Smith
March 3 - Sotheby's Auction house in London auctions off a Rivera Hotel, Las Vegas napkin signed by Elvis Presley for 500 pounds. Other items auctioned included four American dollar bills autographed by the Beatles, for 220 pounds and a collection of personal letters belonging to the Rolling Stones, also for 220 pounds
March 8-March 16 - Tbilisi Rock Festival (1980): the first state-sanctioned rock music festival in the Soviet Union.
March 14 - Record producer Quincy Jones receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
March 19 - Elvis Presley's autopsy is subpoenaed during the trial of Dr. George Nichopoulous, who would later be found guilty of overprescribing drugs to Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and other clients.
April 13 - The Broadway musical Grease closes its run of 3,388 performances, making it the longest running show on Broadway up until that time.
April 14 - A member of the New Jersey State assembly introduces a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song.
April 17 - As the "official guests of State", Bob Marley and the Wailers perform at Zimbabwe's Independence festival. Marley calls the event the "greatest honor of my life."
April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London.
May 18 - Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Macclesfield home. His death comes just days before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour.
June - Rock and Roll pioneer Bill Haley performs for the last time during a tour of South Africa. After this tour, his health deteriorates and he dies in February 1981. July 1980 marks the 25th anniversary of Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" reaching No. 1 on the American singles charts.
August 23 – The Heatwave festival near Toronto featured The B-52's, the Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and many others.
August 31 - Karen Carpenter marries Thomas Burris in their shortly-lived marriage of three years. "Because We Are in Love" is played at their wedding.
September 20 - Ozzy Osbourne's breakthrough debut album Blizzard of Ozz is released in the UK.
September 25 - Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham found dead at age 32.
November 21 - The Eagles' Don Henley is arrested when cocaine, Quaaludes, and marijuana were found in his hotel room after a nude 16 year old prostitute had drug-related seizures. Henley is also subsequently charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
December - Duran Duran signs with EMI after finalizing its lineup and touring as a support act for Hazel O'Connor.
December 4 - Led Zeppelin disbands after John Bonham dies.
December 8 - John Lennon is shot dead outside of his apartment building in New York City. | |
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| Albums released
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton 21 at 33 - Elton John 80/81 - Pat Metheny 1980 - Gil Scott Heron A - Jethro Tull A Different Kind of Tension - The Buzzcocks A Musical Affair - Ashford and Simpson Absolutely - Madness Ace of Spades - Motörhead Acnalbasac Noom - Slapp Happy Adventures in Utopia - Utopia After Dark - Andy Gibb Against the Wind - Bob Seger Alibi - America All Shook Up - Cheap Trick Amar Como Jesus Amou - Jorge Ferreira Animal Magnetism - Scorpions Arc of a Diver - Steve Winwood Argybargy - Squeeze Army Life - The Exploited The Art of Walking - Pere Ubu Audio Visions - Kansas Authority Stealing - Fela Kuti Autoamerican - Blondie Autumn - George Winston Avoid Freud - Rough Trade Baby's Got a Gun - The Only Ones Back in Black - AC/DC Back On The Streets - Donnie Iris Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School - Warren Zevon Barry - Barry Manilow Bass Culture - Linton Kwesi Johnson Beat Crazy - Joe Jackson Beatin' the Odds - Molly Hatchet Bebe Le Strange - Heart The Beginning - Midnight Star Between a Hard Place and the Ground - Mike Bloomfield Bird Noises - Midnight Oil The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party The Black Album - The Damned Black Market Clash - The Clash Black Sea - XTC Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne (solo debut) Blue Angel - Blue Angel Blue Kentucky Girl - Emmylou Harris The Blues Brothers - Original Soundtrack Borderline - Ry Cooder Boy - U2 (debut) Boys Don't Cry - The Cure The Brains - The Brains British Steel - Judas Priest Brother Ray is at it Again - Ray Charles Bryan Adams - Bryan Adams Bunny Wailer Sings the Wailers - Bunny Wailer Burning Blue Soul - Matt Johnson Butcher Baby (EP) - Plasmatics Camellia III and Camellia IV - Ebiet G. Ade Cameosis - Cameo Carnaval - Spyro Gyra Caught You - Steel Pulse Chicago XIV - Chicago Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross Closer - Joy Division Clues - Robert Palmer Coal Miner's Daughter - Original Soundtrack Colassal Youth - Young Marble Giants Come Upstairs - Carly Simon Commercial Album - The Residents Common One - Van Morrison The Correct Use of Soap - Magazine Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar Crocodiles - Echo and the Bunnymen Cultosaurus Erectus - Blue Öyster Cult The Decline of Western CivilizationSoundtrack - Various Artists Deface the Music - Utopia Departure - Journey Diana - Diana Ross Dirty Mind - Prince Divine Madness - Bette Midler Doc at the Radar Station - Captain Beefheart Dome 1 - Dome Don't Fight It - Red Rider Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono Drama - Yes Drastic Measures - 7 Seconds Dream After Dream - Journey Dub Disco - Bunny Wailer Duke - Genesis Eagles Live - The Eagles Earth & Sky - Graham Nash East - Cold Chisel Eje Nlogba - King Sunny Ade Elephant Parts - Mike Nesmith Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones Empires and Dance - Simple Minds Empty Glass - Pete Townshend End of the Century - The Ramones The European Tour - John Coltrane Exploited Barmy Army - The Exploited Faces - Earth, Wind and Fire Fame - Original Soundtrack The First, the Best and the Last - Sham 69 Flash Gordon - Queen Flesh + Blood - Roxy Music Flush the Fashion - Alice Cooper The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards Framed - Asleep at the Wheel Freedom of Choice - Devo Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys Full Moon - Charlie Daniels Band Gap Band III - The Gap Band The Game - Queen The Game - Sham 69 Garden of Love - Rick James Gaucho - Steely Dan Gentlemen Take Polaroids - Japan Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello Give Me the Night - George Benson Glass House Rock - Greg Kihn Glass Houses - Billy Joel Go to Heaven - The Grateful Dead God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners - Robert Fripp Good News - Sweet Honey in the Rock Grace and Danger - John Martyn Greatest Hits - Kenny Rogers Grotesque (After the Gramme) - The Fall Group *** - The Circle Jerks (debut) Growing Up in Public - Lou Reed Guilty - Barbra Streisand Gyrate - Pylon Habibi Ana - Samir Al-Ajani Hail H.I.M. - Burning Spear Hanx - Stiff Little Fingers Happy Woman Blues - Lucinda Williams Hawks & Doves - Neil Young Head Games - Foreigner Head On - Samson Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits Heathen Earth - Throbbing Gristle Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath Hi-Infidelity - REO Speedwagon Hideaway - David Sanborn Hold Out - Jackson Browne Honeysuckle Rose - Willie Nelson Hot on the One - James Brown Hotter than July - Stevie Wonder Huey Lewis and the News - Huey Lewis & The News (debut) Humans - Bruce Cockburn Hypnotised - The Undertones I Am What I Am - George Jones I Believe - The Buzzcocks Ikite Itemo Iidesuka - Miyuki Nakajima Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (debut) Immer nur träumen - Die Flippers In Concert, Zurich October 28, 1979 - Chick Corea and Gary Burton In 'n' Out - Rick James In The Flat Fields - Bauhaus Inside Job - Dion DiMucci The Inside Story - Robben Ford INXS - INXS I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat I'm a Rebel - Accept It's What's Inside That Counts - Critical Mass IV - The Stranglers I've Got Something to Say - David Allan Coe Jack Rabbit! - Doug Dillard The Jazz Singer - Neil Diamond Jazziz- John Serry Jealous Again - Black Flag The Jealous Kind - Delbert McClinton Joe's Garage Acts II and III - Frank Zappa John Anderson - John Anderson Joy and Pain - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly Just Like That - Toots and the Maytals Just One Night - Eric Clapton Kaleidoscope - Siouxie and the Banshees Kano - Kano (debut) Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow Kilamanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes Killing Joke - Killing Joke Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants Keeping Our Love Warm - Captain & Tennille Lady T - Teena Marie Ladies Man - April Wine Laughter - Ian Dury and the Blockheads Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson Lightning to the Nations - Diamond Head Little Stevie Orbit - Steve Forbert Live At Last - Good Rats Live In Vienna - Cluster & Farnbauer Living Dub - Burning Spear LKJ in Dub - Linton Kwesi Johnson London Calling - The Clash (U.S. Release) The Long Riders - Ry Cooder Look Hear? - 10cc Looking at Bird - Archie Shepp Loonee Tunes! - Bad Manners The Lord Will Make a Way - Al Green Los Angeles - X Loud N" Clear - Sammy Hagar Love in Exile - Eddy Grant Love Lives Forever - Minnie Riperton Love Stinks - J. Geils Band Loverboy - Loverboy Maestra Vida: Primera Parte - Ruben Blades Maestra Vida: Segundo Parte - Ruben Blades Making Movies - Dire Straits McCartney II - Paul McCartney Me Myself I - Joan Armatrading Metal-rendez-vous - Krokus Mekons - The Mekons Merzbild Schwet - Nurse With Wound Metamatic - John Foxx Middle Man - Boz Scaggs Mondo Bongo - Boomtown Rats Monster - Herbie Hancock More George Thorogood and the Destroyers - George Thorogood and the Destroyers More Specials - The Specials Mr. Hands - Herbie Hancock Music of Many Colors - Fela Kuti with Roy Ayers My Babe - Roy Buchanan National Breakout - The Romantics Naughty - Chaka Khan Neutronica - Donovan Never Alone - Amy Grant Never Forever - Kate Bush New Hope for the Wretched - Plasmatics Night Passages - Weather Report Nothin' Matters And What If It Did - John Cougar Mellencamp Nurds - The Roches Off the Coast of Me - Kid Creole and the Coconuts Official Secrets Act - M On Through the Night - Def Leppard One Bad Habit - Michael Franks One for the Road - The Kinks One Trick Pony - Paul Simon Operation Radication - Yellowman Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Organisation - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Ori Mi Ja Fun Mi - King Sunny Ade Panorama - The Cars Paradise Theater - Styx Paris - Supertramp Paul Davis - Paul Davis People - James Brown Permanent Waves - Rush Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel Play - Magazine Play Me or Trade Me - Parlet Playing for Keeps - Eddie Money Pretenders - The Pretenders Progressions of Power - Triumph The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs Rarities - The Beatles Rastakraut Pasta - Moebius & Plank Ready an' Willin' - Whitesnake Real Eyes - Gil Scott Heron Real People - Chic Real to Real Cacophony - Simple Minds Reflections - Chet Atkins Remain in Light - Talking Heads Right or Wrong - Rosanne Cash The River - Bruce Springsteen Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway Rockabilly Blues - Johnny Cash Romance Dance - Kim Carnes The Romantics - The Romantics Roses in the Snow - Emmylou Harris Running for my Life - Judy Collins Sacred Songs - Daryl Hall San Antonio Blues - Willie Nelson with Ray Price Sandinista! - The Clash Saved - Bob Dylan Wheels of Steel - Saxon Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - David Bowie Scream Dream - Ted Nugent Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexy's Midnight Runners Second Edition - Public Image Limited Second Time Around - The Kinks Seconds of Pleasure - Rockpile Selbstportrait - Vol. II - Hans-Joachim Roedelius Selbstportrait Vol. III "Reise durch Arcadien" - Hans-Joachim Roedelius Seventeen Seconds - The Cure Shadows and Light - Joni Mitchell Signing Off - UB40 The Singles Album - UB40 Sinsemilla - Black Uhuru Ska 'n' B - Bad Manners Snakes and Ladders - Gerry Rafferty Snap Crackle and Bop - John Cooper Clarke Social Studies - Carla Bley Soldier - Iggy Pop Solo in Soho - Phil Lynott Something Better Change - D.O.A. Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps The S.O.S. Band - The S.O.S. Band Soul Syndrome - James Brown Sound Affects - The Jam Special Things - The Pointer Sisters Spellbound - Dennis Brown Stand in the Fire - Warren Zevon Stations of the Crass - Crass Stone Jam - Slave (band) Storm Windows - John Prine Strong Arm of the Law - Saxon Suicide - Suicide Super Trouper - ABBA Sweat Band - Sweat Band The Swing of Delight - Carlos Santana Take It Easy Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco Taking Liberties - Elvis Costello The Tale of the Tape - Billy Squier Tangerine Dream - Tangerine Dream Tennis - Chris Rea That's What You Get Babe - Kevin Ayers There and Back - Jeff Beck This Time - Al Jarreau Three Mantras - Cabaret Voltaire To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl - Nurse With Wound Tomcattin' - Blackfoot Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) - The Fall TP - Teddy Pendergrass Travelogue - The Human League Trilogy: Past Present Future - Frank Sinatra Triumph - The Jacksons Trombipulation - Parliament Truth Decay - T-Bone Burnett The Turn of a Friendly Card - Alan Parsons Project Two Bit Monsters - John Hiatt Ultra Wave - Bootsy Collins Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys Unmasked - Kiss The Up Escalator - Graham Parker Up-Front - The Fleshtones Uprising - Bob Marley and the Wailers Urban Cowboy Soundtrack - Various Artists Victims of the Fury - Robin Trower The Voice of America - Cabaret Voltaire Voices - Daryl Hall & John Oates The Wanderer - Donna Summer Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones Warm Thoughts - Smokey Robinson Water's Edge - Sweet We Are...Every One of Us - Sweet Honey in the Rock What's the Word - The Fabulous Thunderbirds When Two Worlds Collide - Jerry Lee Lewis Who's Been Talking - The Robert Cray Band Wild Planet - The B-52's Willie Nile - Willie Nile (debut) Women and Children First - Van Halen Xanadu (soundtrack by Olivia Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra) Yellow - Gang of Four Yesshows - Yes Your Cassette Pet - Bow Wow Wow Zapp - Zapp Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police Zydeco Gris Gris - Beausoleil | |
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| 1981
Bands formed
Agitpop Bananarama Bara~o Vermelho Bucks Fizz Fun Boy Three Great White Hunters & Collectors Metallica Mötley Crüe Pantera Slayer Sonic Youth Tita~s Wham! Pet Shop Boys
Bands disbanded
The Buzzcocks (they reform in 1989) Cluster (they reform in 1989) Josef K Generation X Good Rats Ian Dury and the Blockheads Toots & The Maytals (they reform in the early 90s) Klaatu Rockpile The Slits Wings MFSB Raydio Taveners Throbbing Gristle City Boy Luv' (they reform in 1989, 1993 and 2005) Steely Dan (They reform in 1993)
Events
January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith
February 14 - Billy Idol leaves the band Generation X to begin a solo career
February 15 - Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield is found dead in San Francisco. The cause of death was ruled an accidental drug overdose
March 14 - Suffering from bleeding ulcers, Eric Clapton is admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Clapton's 60 city tour of the US is canceled.
April 4- the Zorros record single "Too Young" at Richmond Recorders Melbourne Australia.
April 4 - British pop group Bucks Fizz win Eurovision Song Contest with "Making Your Mind Up"
April 7 - Former Who manager Kit Lambert dies after falling down a flight of stairs in his mother's home in London. Lambert managed the band between 1964 and 1967.
April 11 - Van Halen's lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen marries actress Valerie Bertinelli.
April 17 - Eric Clapton is released from St. Paul's Hospital in Minnesota following a month-long treatment for bleeding ulcers.
April 18 - Yes announces that they're breaking up. (They would however reunite frequently in years to come).
April 20 - The Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips is sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to drug possession charges. Phillips' sentence would be suspended after thirty days in exchange for 250 hours of community service.
April 22 - Eric Clapton is taken to the hospital suffering from bruised ribs and a lacerated shin, following a car accident in Seattle, Washington.
April 25 - Paul McCartney's backing band, Wings, breaks up
May 2 - Working as a local wedding singer 12 months previously, British vocalist Sheena Easton hits NO.1 in the US with "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
May 11 - The musical Cats begins its 8949 performance run on London's West End.
May 20 - Alice Cooper's daughter, Calico Cooper, is born.
August 1 - MTV debuts on cable television in the United States, playing music videos 24 hours a day.
August, UK - the success of Stars On 45 leads to a short-lived medley craze. The most successful imitator of the Stars On 45 format is, rather unexpectedly, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra whose "Hooked On Classics (Parts 1&2)" reaches number two in the charts.
August 23 - The Violent Femmes are discovered by members of The Pretenders busking outside the Milwaukee venue where The Pretenders will be playing, and invited to play a 10-minute acoustic set as a second opening act that night.
September 19 - Simon and Garfunkel perform a free reunion concert in New York City's Central Park attended by over 500,000 fans.
September 25 - The Rolling Stones open their US tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 18 - While sitting in Tom's Restaurant in New York City, Suzanne Vega composes the song "Tom's Diner".
The organ at the famous Heinävesi Church in Finland is renewed, using locks from the original organ.
Alice Cooper drastically changes his appearance, leaving behind his trademark make-up and donning a Military uniform.
Synth pop enjoys mainstream popularity in the UK, with groups such as Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Human League releasing hit singles and albums.
Menudo's golden era (1981-1985) begins in Latin America, parts of Europe and Asia.
Brad Whitford leaves Aerosmith and is replaced by Rick Dufay
U2 appears on the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder, their first U.S. television appearance
Phil Collins releases his first solo album (although he won't leave the band Genesis until 1995)
Hal Willner "invents" the modern tribute album with Amacord Nino Rota | |
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| Albums released 1234 - Ronnie Wood 4 - Foreigner 7 - Madness 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs - Dolly Parton 81 Demo - Anthrax (band) Alles ist gut - D.A.F. Almost Blue - Elvis Costello Amarcord Nino Rota - Various artists Amy Grant In Concert - Amy Grant And Don't the Kids Just Love It - Television Personalities Another Day/Another Dollar - Gang of Four Another Ticket - Eric Clapton Anthem - Toyah Architecture and Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny As Far as Siam - Red Rider The Ascension - Glenn Branca Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! - Earthstar Bad Habits - Billy Field Bad Religion - Bad Religion Bad Reputation - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks Barbecue King - Jorma Kaukonen The Baron - Johnny Cash Beauty and the Beat - The Go Gos Behind the Gardens-Behind the Walls-Under the Trees - Andreas Vollenweider Being With You - Smokey Robinson Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks The Best of Blondie - Blondie The Best Of Minnie Riperton - Minnie Riperton Beyond the Valley of 1984 - Plasmatics The Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's Big City - Merle Haggard Black and White - The Pointer Sisters Black President - Fela Kuti The Blasters - The Blasters Block to Block - De Press Blythe Spirit - Arthur Blythe Bobby & the Midnites - Bobby and the Midnites The Border - Ry Cooder Border Wave - Doug Sahm, Sir Douglas Quintet Brasil (with Joa~o Gilberto, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia) - Caetano Veloso Breaker - Accept Breakin' Away - Al Jarreau Brown Rice and Kerosine - Redgum Buchenwald - Whitehouse Bucks Fizz - Bucks Fizz Burning Blue Soul - The The Butt Rockin' - The Fabulous Thunderbirds Captured - Journey The Catherine Wheel - David Byrne Chances Are - Bob Marley and the Wailers Changestwobowie - David Bowie Chariots of Fire - Vangelis The Chieftains 10 : Cotton-Eyed Joe - The Chieftains Circle of Love - Steve Miller Band Coconut Telegraph - Jimmy Buffett A Collection of Great Dance Songs - Pink Floyd The Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes Computer World - Kraftwerk Connections & Disconnections - Funkadelic Controversy - Prince Come an' Get It - Whitesnake Cool Night - Paul Davis Coup de Grace - Mink DeVille Coup de Tete - Kip Hanrahan Cowboy Jubilee - Riders in the Sky Cruisin' For a Bruisin' - Mike Bloomfield Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty - Felt Curiosum - Cluster Dad Loves His Work - James Taylor Damaged - Black Flag Dangerous Acquaintances - Marianne Faithfull Dare - Human League Dark Continent - Wall of Voodoo Dead Set - The Grateful Dead Deaf - You've Got Foetus On Your Breath The DeBarges - DeBarge Deceit - This Heat Dedicated to Peter Kürten - Whitehouse Dedication - Gary U.S. Bonds The Deep End - The Swimming Pool Qs Defunkt - Defunkt Denim and Leather - Saxon Deuce - Kurtis Blow Devo Live - Devo Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne Difficult to Cure - Rainbow Directions - Miles Davis Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC Discipline - King Crimson Don't Say No - Billy Squier Don't Stop - Billy Idol Drama of Exile - Nico Dreamtime - Tom Verlaine Duran Duran - Duran Duran Earthshaker - Y&T East Side Story - Squeeze El Loco - ZZ Top Electric Rendezvous - Al Di Meola Electronic Eden - The Brains Escape - Journey Escape Artist - Garland Jeffreys The Electric Spanking of War Babies - Funkadelic El Rayo X - David Lindley Exit...Stage Left (live album) - Rush Extended Play - The Pretenders Evangeline - Emmylou Harris Face Dances - The Who Face Value - Phil Collins Fair Warning - Van Halen Faith - The Cure Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys Fire of Love - The Gun Club Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Öyster Cult Fiyou on the Bayou - The Neville Brothers Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd. For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC For Those Who Think Young - Rough Trade The Fox - Elton John Freelancing - James Blood Ulmer Freetime - Spyro Gyra Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band French Record - Kate and Anna McGarrigle Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places - Kid Creole and the Coconuts Friday Night in San Francisco - John McLaughlin with Al Di Meola and Paco DeLucia From the Lion's Mouth - The Sound Frozen Alive! - Albert Collins Fuck 'Em if They Can't Take a Joke - The Dictators Generic Flipper - Flipper Get Lucky - Loverboy Ghost in the Machine - The Police Give the People What They Want - Jimmy Cliff Give the People What They Want - The Kinks Go for It - Shalamar The Golden Age of Wireless - Thomas Dolby Golden Down - Willie Nile Gonna Ball - The Stray Cats Gosh It's... - Bad Manners Gospel according to the meninblack- The Stranglers Great American Music - Good Rats Great gonzos: the Best Of Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent Handful Of Earth - Dick Gaughan Happy Birthday - Altered Images Hard N' Heavy - Anvil Hard Promises - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Hardware - Krokus Healing - Todd Rundgren Heaven Up Here - Echo and the Bunnymen Herbie Hancock Trio - Herbie Hancock Trio Here Comes the Night - David Johansen High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard Higher Plane - Al Green Hooligans - The Who Honi Soit - John Cale Hot! Live and Otherwise - Dionne Warwick I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts - The Waitresses I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Icehouse - Icehouse If I Should Love Again - Barry Manilow In Concert Volume Two - Amy Grant In God We Trust, Inc. - Dead Kennedys In Our Lifetime - Marvin Gaye In the Garden - Eurythmics In the Pocket - The Commodores Individuellos - La Düsseldorf Inner City Front - Bruce Cockburn The Innocent Age - Dan Fogelberg Insect and Individual Silenced - Nurse With Wound Intensities in 10 Cities (live) - Ted Nugent Invictus Means Unconquered - David Allan Coe It's Time To Love - Teddy Pendergrass It Must Be Magic - Teena Marie The Jacksons Live! - The Jacksons Jane Siberry - Jane Siberry Joy - The Minutemen (band) The Judgement of Paris - Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women Juice - Juice Newton Juju - Siouxie and the Banshees Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson Killers - Iron Maiden Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde King Cool - Donnie Iris Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X Kix - Kix Koo Koo - Debbie Harry Land Speed Record - Husker Du Law and Order - Lindsey Buckingham The League of Gentlemen - Robert Fripp with the League of Gentlemen Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics - Robert Fripp Let Them Eat Jellybeans - Various Artists from Alternative Tenticles Records Level 42 (debut) - Level 42 Little Lost Girls - The Runaways Live at Lyceum - Cabaret Voltaire Live in Tasmania - John Fahey Living in the Fast Lane - Mike Bloomfield Long Distance Voyager - Moody Blues The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards Love All the Hurt Away - Aretha Franklin Love Is Only Feeling - Donovan Lustwandel - Hans-Joachim Roedelius Made in America - The Carpenters Magic, Murder and the Weather - Magazine (band) Magic Window - Herbie Hancock Maiden Japan EP - Iron Maiden The Man with the Horn - Miles Davis Mark of the Mole - The Residents Mask - Bauhaus (band) Material - Moebius & Plank Mecca for Moderns - The Manhattan Transfer The Michael Schenker Group - The Michael Schenker Group Minor Threat and In My Eyes - Minor Threat Mistaken Identity - Kim Carnes The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath Modern Times - Jefferson Starship Month of Parturition (Ringetsu) - Miyuki Nakajima Movement - New Order Moving Pictures - Rush M.S.G. II - The Michael Schenker Group Mummy Dust - Bruce Cockburn Music from "The Elder" - Kiss My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - David Byrne & Brian Eno The Nature of the Beast - April Wine Never Too Late- Status Quo Never Too Much - Luther Vandross New Chapter - Aswad New Traditionalists - Devo Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports - Nick Mason Nightclubbing - Grace Jones Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) - Billy Ocean Nightwalker - Gino Vannelli Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band No Sleep 'til Hammersmith - Motörhead Non-Stop! - James Brown Non-stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell October - U2 Odyshape - The Raincoats Of Skins and Heart - The Church Offramp - Pat Metheny One Night at Budokan - The Michael Schenker Group Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo Only Jesus - Dion DiMucci Original Sufferhead - Fela Kuti Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing - Ronnie Milsap Paradise Theater - Styx (band) Parlez-Nous a Boire - Beausoleil Party - Iggy Pop Party Mix - The B-52s Passage - William Ackerman Penis Envy - Crass Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17 Performance - Ashford and Simpson Physical - Olivia Newton-John Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones Place Without a Postcard - Midnight Oil Play Me Out - Helen Reddy Playing With A Different *** - The Au Pairs Pleasant Dreams - The Ramones The Plimsouls - The Plimsouls Point of Entry - Judas Priest Positive Touch - The Undertones The Post - Bobby Womack Power of Love - Arlo Guthrie Prayers On Fire - The Birthday Party Precious Time - Pat Benatar Pretenders II - The Pretenders Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates Psychedelic Jungle - The Cramps Public Service - Bad Religion The Punch Line - The Minutemen (band) Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited (debut) Quarterflash - Quarterflash Quiero Ser - Menudo Rage in Eden - Ultravox Rainbow Stew / Live at Anaheim Stadium - Merle Haggard Raise - Earth, Wind & Fire Re-ac-tor - Neil Young Reckoning - The Grateful Dead Red - Black Uhuru Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire Reflections - Gil Scott Heron Restless Eyes - Janis Ian Rit - Lee Ritenour Rock 'n' Groove - Bunny Wailer Rock 'n' Roll Adult - Garland Jeffreys Rock Till You Drop - Raven Rockihnroll - Greg Kihn Band Roman Gods - The Fleshtones Round Trip - The Knack Seduzir - Djavan See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang,Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! - Bow Wow Wow Send Me a Lullaby - The Go Betweens Seven Year Itch - Rosanne Cash Shake It Up - The Cars Share Your Love - Kenny Rogers She Shot Me Down - Frank Sinatra Shock Tactics - Samson Shot of Love - Bob Dylan Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa Signals, Calls and Marches - Mission of Burma Slates - The Fall Solid Gold - Gang of Four (band) Something Special - Kool and the Gang Somewhere in England - George Harrison Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Willie Nelson Songs for the Mama That Tried - Merle Haggard Songs in the Attic - Billy Joel Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call - Simple Minds Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash - The Replacements (debut) Sound Affects - The Jam Speak & Spell - Depeche Mode Special Forces - Alice Cooper Stahlwerksinfonie - Die Krupps Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar Standing Together - Midnight Star Stands for Decibels - The DB's Stars on Long Play - Stars on 45 Stray Cats - The Stray Cats Step by Step - Eddie Rabbit Still-Joy Division Street Songs - Rick James Strictly Personal - The Romantics Take It Off - Chic Take My Time - Sheena Easton Take No Prisoners - Molly Hatchet Talk Talk Talk - Psychedelic Furs Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones Teddy Boys Don't Knit - Vivian Stanshall Temporary Music - Material Ten Out of 10 - 10cc There Goes the Neighborhood - Joe Walsh There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - B.B. King This Heat - Deceit Three Quartets - Chick Corea Time - Electric Light Orchestra The Time - The Time Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley - Bunny Wailer Tin Drum - Japan Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa Tokyo....Live - Al Green Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club Tongue Twisters - Shoes (band) Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe Too Late the Hero - John Entwistle Torch - Carly Simon Trio - Trio Trombipulation - Parliament Trust - Elvis Costello & the Attractions Turn Back - Toto Underneath the Colours - INXS The Unknown Kurt Weill - Teresa Stratas The Visitors - ABBA Voyeur' - David Sanborn Waiata - Split Enz Walking Under Ladders - Joan Armatrading Wanted Dread and Alive - Peter Tosh Was - Was (Not Was) Welcome to Hell - Venom Wenn Der Südwind Weht - Hans-Joachim Roedelius Wha'ppen? - The English Beat What Cha Gonna Do For Me - Chaka Khan What's THIS For...! - Killing Joke When Two Worlds Collide - Jerry Lee Lewis White Lace & Black Leather - Helix Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross Wild-Eyed Southern Boys - .38 Special Wild Gift - X (U.S. band) Wild Things - The Creatures Word of Mouth - Jaco Pastorius Wünsche fliegen übers Meer - Die Flippers Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield World of Stone - Hunters and Collectors You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa You Want It You Got It - Bryan Adams You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With - Laurie Anderson,William S. Burroughs and John Giorno Zebop! - Santana | |
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| 1982
Bands formed
Cinderella Culture Club The Smiths Seona Dancing Eight Seconds Faith No More Napalm Death Armored Saint Skinny Puppy Nitzer Ebb Alien *** Fiend The Pogues D.I. Soda Stereo a-Ha Beat Happening Big Black The Celibate Rifles Del Amitri Everything But The Girl James Kajagoogoo Public Enemy Flesh for Lulu Ratt Swans Suicidal Tendencies The Toasters They Might Be Giants X Japan
Bands disbanded
ABBA Adam And The Ants Bad Company (they reform in 1986) Blondie (they reform in 1997) The Doobie Brothers (they reform in 1988) The Eagles (they reform in 1994) Hotel The Jam The Only Ones The Average White Band (they reform in 1989) The Teardrop Explodes Japan The Skids
Events
January 15 – K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
January 17 – Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home
January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live bat thrown at him during a performance.
January 21 – B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
February 13 – A 300 pound (136 kg) gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 weeks later in a dry river bed.
February 20 – Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui
March 4 – Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin
March 5 – Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California
March 18 – Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down
March 19 – Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
March 28 – In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon
March 29 – Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory", which will remain at #1 for 7 weeks
March 31 – The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up
April 15 – Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
April – Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman
April 26 – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
May 26 – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Aberdeen, Scotland.
August 17 – In Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany began the first mass production of the compact disc.
September 7 – The musical Cats begins its 18 year run on Broadway
September 22 – The Who begin their only formally-announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
November – Most successful group of the 70s Abba release their final two singles "Under Attack" followed by the re-release of 1977's "Thank You For The Music". But a split is never officially announced.
December 1 – Thriller is released by superstar Michael Jackson and goes on to be greatest selling album of all time, with 104 million units sold worldwide
The first compact discs appear in music stores in Asia.
A benefit concert takes place in Downey, California to replace the guitars belonging to Daniel Amos which were stolen early in the year. Performers included Tom Howard, Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.
Madonna signs on to Warner Bros. Records and both Sire Records
Janet Jackson releases first recording
Caution and Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the birth of a distinctively Chicago sound in hip hop music
Lee Aaron's solo career begins
Ronnie James Dio leaves Black Sabbath for solo career
Wendy O. Williams leaves the Plasmatics for a solo career | |
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| Albums released
Thriller – Michael Jackson (greatest selling album of all time) 1+9+8+2 – Status Quo 1999 – Prince 2x45 – Cabaret Voltaire A Broken Frame – Depeche Mode A Kiss In The Dreamhouse – Siouxsie And The Banshees Age To Age – Amy Grant Album - Generic Flipper – Flipper All Four One – The Motels Ambient 4: On Land – Brian Eno American Fool – John Cougar Mellencamp Another Day/Another Dollar – Gang of Four The Anvil – Visage Are You Ready – Bucks Fizz Asia – Asia Avalon – Roxy Music Bad Brains – Bad Brains Bean Spill – The Minutemen Beat – King Crimson Beautiful Vision – Van Morrison Before a Word Is Said – Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins Big Science – Laurie Anderson Black Metal – Venom Black Tiger – Y&T Blackout – Scorpions The Blue Mask – Lou Reed Bobbie Sue – The Oak Ridge Boys Branigan – Laura Branigan The Broadsword and the Beast – Jethro Tull Business as Usual – Men at Work Chicago 16 – Chicago Chris Rea – Chris Rea Christ – The Album – Crass Chronic Town EP – R.E.M. Circus Animals – Cold Chisel Coda – Led Zeppelin Combat Rock – The Clash Complete Madness – Madness (greatest hits) Computer Games – George Clinton Creatures of the Night – Kiss Damaged – Black Flag Dawn Patrol – Night Ranger Death Wish II – Jimmy Page The Distance – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Diver Down – Van Halen Donna Summer – Donna Summer The Dreaming – Kate Bush D.S. al Coda – National Health The Early Tapes/Strategy – Level 42 Eddie Murphy – Eddie Murphy (Debut) English Settlement – XTC Enter K – Peter Hammill Entrave et Etouffement – Entrave et Etouffement Everything Falls Apart – Hüsker Dü "…Famous Last Words…" – Supertramp Fast Women & Slow Horses – Dr. Feelgood Five Miles Out – Mike Oldfield Flex Your Head – Various Artists Flieg' Vogel flieg' – Hans-Joachim Roedelius Forever Now – The Psychedelic Furs Forging Ahead – Bad Manners Friend or Foe – Adam Ant Gap Band IV – The Gap Band Garista – :$OVIET:FRANCE: Garlands – Cocteau Twins Get Nervous – Pat Benatar The Gift – The Jam Groovy Decay – Robyn Hitchcock H2O – Daryl Hall & John Oates Hello, I Must Be Going! – Phil Collins Hérésie – Virgin Prunes Hex Enduction Hour – The Fall The High and the Mighty – Donnie Iris Homotopy to Marie – Nurse With Wound Hot Space – Queen Hour Live – Toots & the Maytals How Could Hell Be Any Worse? – Bad Religion (debut full-length) Humans Only – Earthstar The Hunter – Blondie (final studio album until early 1999) I Paralyze – Cher Identity Crisis – Sweet (final album) If I Die, I Die – Virgin Prunes Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello & the Attractions In My Eyes – Minor Threat Iron Fist – Motörhead It's Alright (I See Rainbows) – Yoko Ono It's Hard – The Who Junkyard – The Birthday Party (final album) Kansuigyo – Miyuki Nakajima Keep On Doing – The Roches Kenny G – Kenny G (debut) Kissing to Be Clever – Culture Club La Folie – The Stranglers Langkah Berikutnya (and then Tokoh-Tokoh) – Ebiet G. Ade Le Disque d'Or du Mundial '82 – Dalida (compilation) The Lee Aaron Project – Lee Aaron Leichenschrei – SPK Lexicon of Love – ABC Live Evil – Black Sabbath Living My Life – Grace Jones Love over Gold – Dire Straits Love Will Turn You Around – Kenny Rogers Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (debut) Mesopotamia – The B-52's Metal on Metal – Anvil Miami – The Gun Club Midnight Love – Marvin Gaye Milo Goes to College – The Descendents Mirage – Fleetwood Mac Mommy's Little Monster – Social Distortion Mondialement Vôtre – Dalida Music for a New Society – John Cale Naked – *** Gang Children Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen New Britain – Whitehouse Night and Day – Joe Jackson The Nightfly – Donald Fagen Nona – Nona Hendryx Nothing Can Stop Us – Robert Wyatt Nothing to Fear – Oingo Boingo Now and Forever – Air Supply Now Then ... – Stiff Little Fingers Nugent – Ted Nugent The Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden Nylon Curtain – Billy Joel Offene Türen – Hans-Joachim Roedelius Oh No!, It's Devo – Devo On Land – Brian Eno One To One – Carole King The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away-William Bootsy Collins One Vice At A Time – Krokus Only Theatre of Pain – Christian Death (debut) Oriental Beat – Hanoi Rocks Original Musiquarium – Greatest Hits – Stevie Wonder The Party's Over – Talk Talk Peter Gabriel also known as Security – Peter Gabriel Pictures at Eleven – Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut) Picture This – Huey Lewis & The News Pornography – The Cure Power Play – April Wine Prairie Serenade – Riders in the Sky Private Audition – Heart Psychopathia Sexualis – Whitehouse The Pursuit of Accidents – Level 42 The Record – Fear Revelations – Killing Joke Rio – Duran Duran The Rise & Fall – Madness Rock in a Hard Place – Aerosmith Room To Live – The Fall Rough Diamonds – Bad Company Ruff Cuts EP – Twisted Sister Saints & Sinners – Whitesnake Screaming for Vengeance – Judas Priest Send Me A Lullaby – The Go-Betweens Shabooh Shoobah – Inxs Shoot out the Lights – Richard and Linda Thompson Signals – Rush Silk Electric – Diana Ross The Singles: The First Ten Years – ABBA The Sky's Gone Out – Bauhaus Sleepwalking – Gerry Rafferty Somewhere in Afrika – Manfred Mann's Earth Band Songs of the Free – Gang of Four Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth Speak of the Devil – Ozzy Osbourne (Live) Spécial Dalida – Dalida Stink – The Replacements Straight Between the Eyes – Rainbow Sweets From a Stranger – Squeeze Tenebrae – Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli (Goblin) There For No One To See – Grand Prix The Golden Age of Wireless – Thomas Dolby Three Lock Box – Sammy Hagar Time and Tide – Split Enz Timepieces: Best of Eric Clapton – Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979) Too Fast for Love – Mötley Crüe (debut re-release) Too-Rye-Ay – Dexys Midnight Runners Toto IV – Toto Tough – Kurtis Blow Trance – Chris and Cosey Troops Of Tomorrow – The Exploited Tug of War – Paul McCartney The Tunes of Two Cities – The Residents Under the Big Black Sun – X Under The Blade – Twisted Sister (debut album) Underwater Kites – The Modern Art (debut) (untitled) – an untitled album by :$OVIET:FRANCE: Upstairs at Eric's – Yazoo Vs – Mission of Burma Wasted Youth – Girl What Time Is It? – The Time White Eagle – Tangerine Dream Zapp II – Zapp Zipper Catches Skin – Alice Cooper | |
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| 1983
Bands formed
A-Ha Alisa ANTiSEEN Alphaville Bon Jovi Bronski Beat Death Dinosaur Jr. The Dust Brothers The Flaming Lips Mayhem Megadeth NOFX NEON CROSS Phish Red Box Red Hot Chili Peppers Run-D.M.C. Samhain Soul Asylum Testament
Bands disbanded
Bauhaus Blondie Budgie Minor Threat The Misfits Mission of Burma Roxy Music Wall of Voodoo (reformed in 1985) The Who (reunions throughout the late 1980s and 1990s)
Events
Publication of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff.
February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York
Diana Ross performed in Central Park in the pouring rain
Highest point of the 1981–1985 Menuditis and Menudomania all over Latin America.
ZTT Records founded
The UK singles chart starts to use electronic terminals in selected stores to gather sales information. The old "sales diary" method will be gradually phased out over the next few years
19 August : Radio Caroline broadcasts from MV Ross Revenge with a new mast
Steve, Bob and Rich (soon to become The Rainmakers) release demos for Mercury Records
The Police's Synchronicity was their final release together before breaking up, and was enormously popular, including one of their more popular songs, "Every Breath You Take"
Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) was their breakthrough success, and included their signature tune, the title track
Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil was their breakthrough, and included "Looks That Kill", though they would go on to greater popular and critical success in the later part of the decade after recovering from the shock of member Vince Neil's near-fatal car accident
Nena releases 99 Luftballons and its English version, 99 Red Balloons, generating her fame in the English-speaking world
Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones was his first album for Island Records, and the first in a series of three thematically and stylistically linked albums that established him as a critical darling and cult favorite
New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies was the second since forming from the ashes of Joy Division (after the suicide of Ian Curtis) and the first to achieve critical or popular success, as it was a stylistically innovative mix of synth vocals and dance-heavy beats. In some countries included the best-selling 12" record of all time, "Blue Monday"
Duran Duran scored hits from three separate albums in this year (Rio, the reissue of Duran Duran, and Seven and the Ragged Tiger)
Merle Haggard began a run of chart success in this year, which continued for about two years. His duet album with Willie Nelson, Pancho & Lefty, was an enormous critical and popular success and did much to revitalize the careers of both entertainers, especially with the hit title track
Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood was more popular than any blues album since the late 1960s, and did much to establish country-blues as a commercially viable genre
George Strait's Right or Wrong sold extremely well, and was a pivotal album in the development of the honky tonk revival during the rest of the decade.
Now That's What I Call Music! off the long-running compilation series in the UK
Metallica and Slayer kicked off the thrash metal era with Kill 'Em All and Show No Mercy.
R.E.M's first full-length album Murmur was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year.
The Carpenters' Voice of the Heart was released after Karen Carpenter's untimely death which contains material from some of her last recording sessions, as well as previously unreleased tracks from sessions over the years.
The Depeche Mode single Everything Counts achieve a great popularity and is considered the first industrial Pop music. | |
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| Albums released 1st - Streets 90125 - Yes A Christmas Album - Amy Grant A Volar - Menudo Ageless Medley EP - Amy Grant Ain't It Good To Be Free - Bo Diddley Alive She Cried - The Doors All For One - Raven (band) All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers American Made - The Oak Ridge Boys Another Perfect Day - Motörhead Ark - The Animals Assault Attack - Michael Schenker Group At War With Satan - Venom (band) Back to Back - Status Quo Back to the Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks Balls to the Wall - Accept Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne Before Hollywood - The Go Between Behind the Scenes - Reba McEntire Believer - Chic Bent Out of Shape - Rainbow Branigan 2 - Laura Branigan Break Out - The Pointer Sisters Breaking the Chain - Dokken Built to Destroy - The Michael Schenker Group Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat - Minutemen (band) Canterbury - Diamond Head Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie Cargo - Men at Work Colour by Numbers - Culture Club Confrontation - Bob Marley and the Wailers Confusion Is *** - Sonic Youth Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode The Crossing - Big Country Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams DaDa - Alice Cooper Dagger and Guitar - Sort Sol Dazzle Ships - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Dancing for Mental Health - Will Powers (actually Lynn Goldsmith) Deep Sea Skiving - Bananarama Deliver - Oak Ridge Boys Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain - Kevin Ayers Dreamgirls - Original Broadway Cast Album Electric Universe - Earth, Wind & Fire Eliminator - ZZ Top Europe - Europe The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect - Todd Rundgren Everywhere at Once - The Plimsouls Even the Strong Get Lonely - Tammy Wynette Eyes That See in the Dark - Kenny Rogers Fall In a Hole - The Fall Fastway - Fastway Faster Than the Speed of Night - Bonnie Tyler Feel My Soul - Jennifer Holliday Feline - The Stranglers The Final Cut - Pink Floyd The First Flower - Play Dead Flashdance (soundtrack) - Various Artists Flick of the Switch - AC/DC Forged in Fire - Anvil Fortune 410 - Donnie Iris Frontiers - Journey Genesis - Genesis G Force - Kenny G Good Love & Heartbreak - Tammy Wynette Hand of Kindness - Richard Thompson Head over Heels - Cocteau Twins Headhunter - Krokus Heart to Heart - Merle Haggard Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon Hello Big Man - Carly Simon Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera Hootenanny - The Replacements Holy Diver - Dio The Hurting - Tears for Fears (debut) I Put Away My Idols - Dion DiMucci Ich halt zu Dir - Die Flippers Imagination - Helen Reddy In Heat - The Romantics Inarticulate Speech of the Heart - Van Morrison Into Glory Ride - Manowar Into the Unknown - Bad Religion Japanese Whispers - The Cure Johnny 99 - Johnny Cash Kill 'Em All - Metallica (Debut) Klass - Bad Manners The Kitchen Tapes - The Raincoats Labour of Love - UB40 Legendary Hearts - Lou Reed Lesson Well Learned EP - Armored Saint Let's Dance - David Bowie Let's Start A War (Said Maggie One Day) - The Exploited Lick It Up - Kiss Life - Thin Lizzy Live Evil - Black Sabbath Live From Earth - Pat Benatar Lost in the Feeling - Conway Twitty The Luxury Gap - Heaven 17 Madness - Madness (US only compilation) Madonna - Madonna Mean Streak - Y&T Merry Twistmas - Conway Twitty Metal Circus - Hüsker Dü Metal Health - Quiet Riot (American debut) Metal Magic - Pantera (Debut) Michael Bolton - Michael Bolton Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion Murmur - R.E.M. (full length debut) Neruda - Red Rider Never Surrender - Triumph Next Position Please - Cheap Trick No Parlez - Paul Young No Parole from Rock & Roll - Alcatrazz No Rest For The Wicked - Helix Offramp - The Pat Metheny Group Oriental Towers - The Modern Art Out For Blood - Lita Ford (solo debut) Outside Inside - The Tubes Pancho & Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson Peace Thru Vandalism - The Vandals Perverted by Language - The Fall Pictures - Atlanta Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney Platinum Blonde - Platinum Blonde (debut EP) The Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order Powerlight - Earth, Wind & Fire The Principle of Moments - Robert Plant Privilege - Ivor Cutler Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello & the Attractions Pyromania - Def Leppard Q-Feel - Q-Feel Queensry"che - Queensry"che Ratt EP - Ratt The Revölution by Night - Blue Öyster Cult Riding with the King - John Hiatt Right or Wrong - George Strait Rock 'n' Soul, Part 1 - Hall & Oates Samurai - Grand Prix Script for a Jester's Tear - Marillion Secret Messages - Electric Light Orchestra Self-Destruction Blues Hanoi Rocks Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer Shine On - George Jones Shout at the Devil - Mötley Crüe Show No Mercy - Slayer (debut) Sound Elixir - Nazareth Southern Death Cult EP - Southern Death Cult (first release by the band to eventually be known as The Cult) Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads Sports - Huey Lewis & The News Standing in the Light - Level 42 Star People - Miles Davis Steeler - Steeler (Yngwie Malmsteen & Ron Keel's 1st band, This band's only release) Subterranean Jungle - The Ramones Subject: Aldo Nova - Aldo Nova Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (debut) Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits Synchronicity - The Police Take It to the Limit - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson Take it to the River - Willie Nelson Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard Thunder and Lightning - Thin Lizzy Too Low for Zero - Elton John Touch - Eurythmics Tougher than Leather - Willie Nelson Travels - The Pat Metheny Group Treeless Plain - The Triffids Trouble in Paradise - Randy Newman Urban Dance Floor Guerillas - P-Funk All Stars Under A Blood Red Sky - U2 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (debut) Walk into Light - Ian Anderson War - U2 The Waterboys - The Waterboys (debut) Water Sign - Chris Rea Waylon & Company - Waylon Jennings We Are One - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly We've Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers Weeds & Water - Riders in the Sky "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Weird Al" Yankovic "What Makes a Man Start Fires?" - Minutemen What's Funk? - Grand Funk Windows in the Jungle - 10cc With Sympathy - Ministry (Debut) Without a Song - Willie Nelson Works - Pink Floyd Works - Status Quo Yes Sir, I Will - Crass Yentl (soundtrack) - Barbra Streisand Yokan (Hunch) - Miyuki Nakajima You Can't Stop Rock and Roll - Twisted Sister You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish - George Clinton Zebra - Zebra (band) Zeichnungen des Patienten O. 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| 1984
Bands formed
Big Audio Dynamite The Black Crowes Blind Guardian Celtic Frost Deep Purple (reformed) The Cult Fine Young Cannibals Glass Tiger Green River Helloween Hothouse Flowers The Offspring Soundgarden KMFDM Sepultura
Bands disbanded
Altered Images Any Trouble Brotherhood Of Man (they reunite in 1986) Crass Earth, Wind & Fire Foghat Gang of Four King Crimson (they reunite in 1994) Mission of Burma Naked Eyes Orange Juice The Raincoats Poco Rainbow (they reunite in 1993) Soft Cell Status Quo (they reunite the following year for Live Aid and stay together) The Stray Cats (they reunite in 1986, then periodically over the years) Styx (they reunite in 1995) Tommy Tutone
Events
January 21 - "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40. January 27 - Michael Jackson's scalp is burnt during the filming of a Pepsi commercial and he remains calm. Around this time, Jackson also releases the final single from his monstrous Thriller album "Thriller". At the time, the music video is considered to be the greatest ever created. February - After a successful recovery from the scalp burns, Michael is nominated for twelve Grammy awards and wins eight, breaking the record for the most Grammy Awards won in a single year. He wins seven for the critically acclaimed album Thriller and the other for a song featured in the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. February 14 - Elton John marries studio engineer Renate Blauel. Also Joe Perry and Brad Whitford Attend an Aerosmith concert and re-join the band and embark on their reunion tour "Back In The Saddle" later in the year. February 16 - Jerry Lee Lewis surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion. Lewis is later acquitted. February 29 - KMFDM's first live performance. March 1 - Sting plays his last concerts with The Police at the end of the Synchronicity tour; the band takes a "pause" after the tour and only play a few special events together after this, until 2007, when they would organize a reunion tour. Alice Cooper leaves the music industry, after touring continuously for over ten years. He would return in 1986. April 1 - In Los Angeles, California, Marvin Gaye is shot and killed during an argument with his father. May 1 - Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, files for bankruptcy in the United States. May 1 - Tipper Gore forms the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in response to the "filth" she hears on her daughter's Prince album Purple Rain. May 2 - Lionel Richie's hit "Hello" becomes Motown's first ever UK million selling single. May 5 - The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde marries Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr. June 16-August 11 - Frankie Goes to Hollywood spend nine weeks at the top of the UK singles chart with "Two Tribes". July 1 - During his performance at the first ever Cornerstone Festival in Grayslake, Illinois, Steve Taylor jumps off the stage, breaking his ankle. Taylor hopped back on stage and finished his show. The next few shows on Taylor's tour were performed from a wheel chair. August 31 - Canadian music video channel MuchMusic debuts. The first video played is Rush's "The Enemy Within". September 14 - The first annual MTV Video Music Awards are held in New York City. September 14 - At the VMAs, Madonna causes controversy during her performance of her hit single "Like a Virgin" when she rolls around on the stage, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and grinds her crotch against her veil. October 1 - The Jesus and Mary Chain release their first single, "Upside Down". October 19 - A-Ha's career begins with the release of the "Take On Me" single in the UK. December 1 - Frankie Goes to Hollywood become the first act to take their first three singles to the UK #1 position since Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1963, when "The Power of Love" tops the chart. December 3 - Bob Geldof and Band Aid release the single "Do They Know It's Christmas". December 8 - Mötley Crüe member Vince Neil is involved in a serious car accident. He was drunk at the time, and Razzle (Nicholas Dingley) of Hanoi Rocks was killed in the accident. December 31 - Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car wreck. He was in the hospital until the next year (1985). Mantronix forms. Menudo and Menudomania reach Asia. Ricky Martin substitutes Ricky Melendez in the group. Soundgarden forms. UK singles sales this year are the second highest ever, after 1978. Styx breaks up. | |
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| Albums released '74 Jailbreak EP - AC/DC 1984 - Ebiet G. Ade About Face - David Gilmour Agent Provocateur - Foreigner All Fired Up - Fastway All Over The Place - The Bangles All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks Animal Grace - April Wine Animalize - Kiss (band) Arena(Live Album) - Duran Duran The Art of Defense - Nona Hendryx The Ascension - Glenn Branca Aural Sculpture - The Stranglers Back and Forth - Skinny Puppy Balls to the Wall - Accept Bananarama - Bananarama Begegnungen - Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank Beverly Hills Cop (soundtrack) - Various Artists Bewitched - Andy Summers & Robert Fripp Big Bam Boom - Hall & Oates The Blitz (album) - Krokus (band) Body & Soul - Joe Jackson Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs Breaking Curfew - Red Rider Breaking Hearts - Elton John Building the Perfect Beast - Don Henley Burning Oil - Skeletal Family Burn the Witches - Warlocks (band) Cats Without Claws - Donna Summer Caught In The Act - Styx Centipede - Rebbie Jackson Chicago 17 - Chicago Climate of Hunter - Scott Walker Condition Critical - Quiet Riot Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Dali - Dalida A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg - Scattered Order Dancing on the Edge - Lita Ford Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest Deia...Vu - Kevin Ayers Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung Double Nickels on the Dime - The Minutemen Dream Street (album) - Janet Jackson Dreamtime - Death Cult (Band name was later changed to The Cult) E2-E4 - Manuel Göttsching Eden - Everything But The Girl Eyes Of Innocence - Miami Sound Machine First Strike - Def Leppard Fistful of Metal - Anthrax The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby Forever Young - Alphaville Fried - Julian Cope From Her to Eternity - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds From the Promised Land - Play Dead From the Promised Land (remix) - Play Dead Give Em' The Axe EP - Lizzy Borden Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney The Glamorous Life - Sheila E. Gone Fishin' - Flipper Grace Under Pressure - Rush Great White (band) - Great White (band) Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam (debut) Hajimemashite (How Do You Do) - Miyuki Nakajima Hard To Hold - Rick Springfield Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths Haunting the Chapel EP - Slayer Heart Don't Lie - LaToya Jackson Heartbeat City - The Cars High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard (re-Release) The Honeydrippers: Volume One - Robert Plant Horizen - Jade Warrior How Will the Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos Hyaena - Siouxsie and the Banshees I Often Dream of Trains - Robyn Hitchcock Icon - Icon (debut album) Ich kann den Anderen in deinen Augen sehn - Die Flippers In Rock We Trust - Y&T In the Studio - The Specials Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite - Killdozer Into The Gap - Thompson Twins Isolation - Toto It's My Life - Talk Talk Keep Moving - Madness L.A. Is My Lady - Frank Sinatra Lady of the Stars - Donovan The Las Vegas Story - The Gun Club The Last in Line - Dio Lay Down the Law - Keel (debut album) Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders Legend: Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers - Bob Marley & the Wailers Let It Be - The Replacements Lights Out - Peter Wolf Like a Virgin - Madonna Live Sentence - Alcatrazz Love at First Sting - Scorpions March of the Saint - Armored Saint Mast Nazren -Ecstatic Glances Live in London, 1984 - Ghulam Ali MCMLXXXIV - Van Halen Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets Moving - The Raincoats Nave Maria - Tom Zé No Brakes - John Waite No Kinda Dancer - Robert Earl Keen No Remorse - Motörhead No Tellin' Lies - Zebra Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen Opium - KMFDM (Debut Album) Optimystique - Yanni Out of the Cellar - Ratt Out of Step - Minor Threat Pagan Place - The Waterboys Penetrator - Ted Nugent Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple Powerslave - Iron Maiden Private Dancer - Tina Turner (her breakthrough solo album) Projects in the Jungle - Pantera The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Read My Lips - Fee Waybill Reckless - Bryan Adams Reckoning - R.E.M. Remission - Skinny Puppy Revolution - Menudo Ride the Lightning - Metallica Riders in the Sky, Live - Riders in the Sky Rita Mitsouko - Rita Mitsouko Seasons - Dion DiMucci See You In Hell - Grim Reaper Self Control - Laura Branigan She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper The Smiths - The Smiths Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode Sonic Death - Sonic Youth Soul Mining - The The The Splendour of Fear - Felt Spring Hill Fair - The Go-Betweens Starchild - Teena Marie Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister Steeltown - Big Country Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Straight Ahead - Amy Grant The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories - Felt Street Talk - Steve Perry Suddenly - Billy Ocean Talk Show - The Go-Go's Team Goon - D.I. (EP) Three of a Perfect Pair - King Crimson Thunder Seven - Triumph Tocsin - Xmal Deutschland Tonight - David Bowie Tooth and Nail - Dokken The Top - The Cure Treasure - Cocteau Twins Tropico - Pat Benatar Two Steps From The Move - Hanoi Rocks Under Wraps - Jethro Tull The Unforgettable Fire - U2 Vengeance - The Independent Story - New Model Army Victory - Jacksons VOA - Sammy Hagar Volume 1 - Reagan Youth Waking Up with the House on Fire - Culture Club Walkin' The Razor's Edge - Helix Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man - Guadalcanal Diary (debut) The Warning - Queensry"che (first full length album release) W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. (debut album) "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D - "Weird Al" Yankovic Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood What About Me? - Kenny Rogers Wheels Are Turnin' - REO Speedwagon When In Rome Do As The Vandals - The Vandals Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? - Art of Noise Wings of Tomorrow - Europe Wired to the Moon - Chris Rea The Woman in Red - (cinematic soundtrack by Stevie Wonder) The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall - The Fall Work Resumed on the Tower - News from Babel The Works (Queen album) - Queen World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope The Yellow and Black Attack EP - Stryper Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Rising Force - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (debut) Zen Arcade - Husker Du | |
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| 1985
Bands formed
Aria Brainbombs Crowded House Erasure Fecal Matter The Feelies reunite Guns N' Roses GWAR Hootie & the Blowfish The Mad Capsule Markets Majesty (subsequently renamed Dream Theater) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Mr. Bungle Phranc - solo career starts Pizzicato Five Private Domain Stabbing Westward Totalitär Widespread Panic
Bands disbanded
Cheech & Chong Chic Devo (reformed in 1987 and disbanded again in 1990) Dr. Hook Duran Duran (reformed in 1986 as a trio of original members John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, and Nick Rhodes) The Go-Go's Hanoi Rocks The J. Geils Band Men at Work Mercyful Fate (reformed in 1993) Minutemen Orange Juice The Police Quarterflash The Specials Split Enz The Sugarhill Gang Weather Report
Events
January 28 - Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis & The News, Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder, recorded the song "We Are the World".[1]
February 21 - Whitney Houston released her first album after signing to Arista Records.[citation needed]
March 3 - A wax likeness of Michael Jackson was unveiled at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, UK.[citation needed]
March 26 - South African radio stations banned Stevie Wonder's music in response to Wonder dedicating the Oscar he had won the night before to Nelson Mandela.[citation needed]
April 1 - After months of talks, David Lee Roth left Van Halen to begin a solo career.[citation needed]
April 10 - Madonna began her very first tour, The Virgin Tour (named after her Like a Virgin album) in Seattle, Washington, USA.[citation needed]
June 11 - Madonna ended The Virgin Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York, USA.[citation needed]
July 13 - The Live Aid concert took place in Wembley Stadium, London, UK and Philadelphia, USA. The headlining acts at the latter venue included a Led Zeppelin reunion, the first since their 1980 disbandment.[citation needed]
August 1 - Michael Jackson purchased the publishing rights for most of the Beatles' music for US$47 million, much to the dismay of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.[citation needed]
August 16 - On her 27th birthday, Madonna married actor Sean Penn. They were later divorced, on September 14, 1989.[citation needed]
September 19 - The Parents Music Resource Center's (P.M.R.C.) United States Senate hearing on rock censorship began in Washington, D.C., USA. Heavy metal singer Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, rock star Frank Zappa and country singer John Denver testified against the P.M.R.C.[citation needed]
September 22 - The Farm Aid concert was held in Champaign, Illinois, USA.[citation needed]
November 16 - John Farnham became a famous Australian celebrity when his hit, "You're The Voice' went to the top of the charts at #1 for a record-breaking seven weeks.[citation needed]
December 5 - The first fully digital reggae single, Wayne Smith's "(Under Me) Sleng Teng", was recorded at Prince Jammy's studio; it is the beginning of ragga style reggae.[citation needed]
Eric B. & Rakim meet and began making music together.[citation needed]
The former Beatles producer George Martin worked with country music legend Kenny Rogers on the album The Heart of the Matter.[citation needed]
Several hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars in publishing royalties were released to the surviving members, and families of the deceased members, of the British music group, Badfinger. Two band members, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, previously committed suicide due to financial problems.[citation needed] | |
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| Albums released 3-Way Tie (For Last) - Minutemen 10 from 6 - Bad Company 7800 Fahrenheit - Bon Jovi A Cappella - Todd Rundgren A Classic Case - Jethro Tull A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse - Giorno Poetry Systems A Sense of Wonder - Van Morrison Across a Crowded Room - Richard Thompson Ancient Artifacts - D.I. Armed and Dangerous - Anthrax Around the World in a Day - Prince and the Revolution Asylum - Kiss Auf rote Rosen fallen Tränen - Die Flippers Backwaxed - Anvil Bad Moon Rising - Sonic Youth Beat Happening - Beat Happening Begegnungen II - Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank Behind the Sun - Eric Clapton Bites - Skinny Puppy Bo Diddley & Co. - Live - Bo Diddley Bonded by Blood - Exodus Boy in the Box - Corey Hart Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox Company Of Justice - Play Dead Centerfield - John Fogerty Come Out and Play - Twisted Sister Cupid & Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti Cut the Crap - The Clash Dare to Be Stupid - "Weird Al" Yankovic Delirious Nomad - Armored Saint Despite Straight Lines - Marilyn Diamond Life - Sade Disturbing the Peace - Alcatrazz Done with Mirrors - Aerosmith Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners Down for the Count - Y&T Dream Into Action - Howard Jones The Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting Everybody's Crazy - Michael Bolton Eaten Alive - Diana Ross Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M. Falco 3 - Falco Father's House - Dreams So Real Fear and Whiskey - Mekons Fear No Evil - Grim Reaper Feel the Fire - Overkill Fight to Survive - White Lion The Firm - The Firm First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy The Firstborn Is Dead - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Fly on the Wall - AC/DC For The Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes Folksinger - Phranc Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys Freaky Styley - Red Hot Chili Peppers Futile Combat - Skeletal Family Garista (re-release) - zoviet*france: Go West - Go West Gravity - Kenny G Greatest Hits - The Cars Halber Mensch (or 1/2 Mensch; English: Half Man) - Einstürzende Neubauten Hallelujah All the Way Home - The Verlaines The Head on the Door - The Cure Heart - Heart The Heart of the Matter - Kenny Rogers Hell Awaits - Slayer Hellbound - Warlock Hold Me - Laura Branigan Horror Epics - The Exploited Horse Bites Dog Cries - D.I. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Hunting High and Low - a-ha I Am The Night - Pantera Ice on Fire - Elton John Into The Fire Live - Play Dead Into the Groove - Madonna Invasion of Your Privacy - Ratt Kingdom In The Streets - Dion DiMucci Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! - Megadeth Lands End - various artists The Last Command - W.A.S.P. Listen Like Thieves - Inxs Little Creatures - Talking Heads Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide - Guns N' Roses Live After Death - Iron Maiden Long Way to Heaven - Helix Loose Nut - Black Flag Love - The Cult Love Bomb - The Tubes Love You to Pieces - Lizzy Borden Low-Life - New Order Luxury Of Life - Five Star Mad Not Mad - Madness Marching Out - Yngwie Malmsteen Make it Big - Wham! Messages from the Boys -The Boys Meat Is Murder - The Smiths Mental Notes - Bad Manners Metal Heart - Accept Midnite Dynamite - Kix Misplaced Childhood - Marillion New Day Rising - Hüsker Dü The Night I Fell in Love - Luther Vandross The Night of the Crime - Icon Night Time - Killing Joke No Jacket Required - Phil Collins No Muss...No Fuss - Donnie Iris No Tellin' Lies - Zebra Off The Board - Ludichrist Old Land - Cluster & Brian Eno One for the Road - April Wine Open Fire - Y&T Original Masters - Jethro Tull Oironaoshi (The Change) - Miyuki Nakajima Power Station - Power Station Power Windows - Rush Project: Mersh - Minutemen Promise - Sade Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain Radio - LL Cool J Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Ready to Strike - King Kobra Rescue You - Joe Lynn Turner The Right to Rock - Keel Riptide - Robert Palmer Rough Cutt - Rough Cutt Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash - The Pogues Run for Cover - Gary Moore Sacred Heart - Dio Say You Love Me - Jennifer Holliday Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp Scream for Help - John Paul Jones Seven the Hard Way - Pat Benatar Shaken 'n' Stirred - Robert Plant Shamrock Diaries - Chris Rea She's the Boss - Mick Jagger Silvertone - Chris Isaak So Red the Rose - Arcadia
Soldiers Under Command - Stryper Some Of My Best Jokes Are Friends - George Clinton Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears Soul to Soul - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Spleen and Ideal - Dead Can Dance Spoiled Girl - Carly Simon Spreading the Disease - Anthrax Stella - Yello Steve McQueen (US title: Two Wheels Good) - Prefab Sprout Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega Machine Age Voodoo - SPK Syirin Farthat - Elvy Sukaesih The Best Of Elvy Sukaeish - Elvy Sukaesih Talk about the Weather - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Telephone Free Landslide Victory - Camper Van Beethoven Three-Way Tie for Last - Minutemen Theatre of Pain - Mötley Crüe The Pacific Age - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark This is Big Audio Dynamite - Big Audio Dynamite This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall Thunder in the East - Loudness Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno Tim - The Replacements To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost (untitled) - :$OVIET:FRANCE: Under Lock and Key - Dokken Unguarded - Amy Grant Up on the Sun - Meat Puppets VU - The Velvet Underground Waiting for the Roar - Fastway Walls of Jericho - Helloween We Are the World - USA for Africa Welcome to the Real World - Mr. Mister Whispering Jack - John Farnham Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston Who's Zooming Who - Aretha Franklin Without Love - Black N' Blue World Machine - Level 42 World Wide Live - Scorpions Youthquake - Dead or Alive Zaman - Ebiet G. Ade | |
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| 1986
Bands formed
Bolt Thrower Cacophony Dick Dale Goo Goo GTR Pixies Poison Skid Row Sweet Children The Monkees (return) The Vaselines Wet Wet Wet White Zombie
Bands disbanded
Black Flag Madness Prince and the Revolution Wham!
Events
January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame takes place. The first artists to be honoured are Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.[citation needed]
February 4 - Control, the third album of Janet Jackson, who would become one of the best-selling artists of all time, was released.
February 11 - Culture Club lead singer Boy George appears on an episode of The A-Team
February 14 - Frank Zappa appears on an episode of the popular television series Miami Vice. Zappa portrays a crime boss named "Mr. Frankie".
February 21 - The Dead Kennedys play their last concert at UC Davis in Davis, California.
February 23 - In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Monkees premiering on television, MTV broadcasts "Pleasant Valley Sunday," a 22-hour marathon of Monkees episodes.
March 3 - Metallica releases their highly influential album, Master of Puppets, considered by many in the metal community to be the best metal album of all time
March 27 - Sammy Hagar performs his first concert as the lead singer of Van Halen
April 12 - The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle marries actor Morgan Mason
May 2 - Country music superstar Dolly Parton opens her Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
May 5 - In New York, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Chairman Ahmet Ertegün announces that Cleveland, Ohio has been chosen as the city where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will be built
Alice Cooper returns to the mainstream after a two year hiatus. The Nightmare Returns Tour goes on to become one of the best selling tours of 1986.
May 10 - Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe marries actress Heather Locklear.
May 19 - Peter Gabriel releases So, his first album in over 4 years. The album reached number 2 on the charts and sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. So contains the chart-topping songs Sledgehammer (#1), Big Time (top 10), and In Your Eyes (top 40). The music video for Sledgehammer won 9 MTV Video Music Awards, more than any video in history, and was ranked the #1 video of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. This album also marks Peter Gabriel's introduction into the mainstream of world music artists such as Youssou N'dour (who lent his vocals on In Your Eyes). It is interesting to note that Genesis released their hit album Invisible Touch in 1986, with Phil Collins on vocals.
May 21 - Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Mask of Orpheus is premiered in London
May 25 - Norwegian band a-ha wins a recordbreaking 8 awards at the MTV Music award show.
May 30 - The Monkees begin a highly successful tour of American stadiums on their 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour
June 4 - June 15 - U2, Sting, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, the Neville Brothers, and Bryan Adams stage the A Conspiracy of Hope Tour in the US on behalf of Amnesty International, playing five cities on the tour. The final show at New Jersey's Giants Stadium is televised live, and the above-mentioned performers are joined by Joni Mitchell, Howard Jones, Yoko Ono, Third World, and Carlos Santana, as well as the other members of The Police.
June 27 - Black Flag play their last concert, in Detroit, Michigan.
August 28 - Tina Turner receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
October- The Smiths, unbeknownst to everyone at the time, play their final gig as a five-piece.
October 20 - Duran Duran begin their career as a three piece with the release of the "Notorious" single
September 27 - a tour bus carrying the heavy metal band Metallica crashes in Sweden, killing their most influential bassist, Cliff Burton.
Jello Biafra/Dead Kennedys taken to court by the PMRC for content in their album Frankenchrist; Biafra wins
The Escape Club signs a contract to EMI Records
Public Enemy signs a contract to Def Jam Records
Slayer releases Reign in Blood, their breakthrough album, and the one that set the stage for many extreme metal bands to come.
A (then) unknown Country singer, by the name of Garth Brooks marries his first wife, Sandy.
Ernesto Bonino loses his voice after a surgical intervention
Megadeth releases one of their most influential and popular albums, Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?.
John Farnham became a famous Australian celebrity when his monster hit of 1985, You're The Voice zoomed in to the top of the Charts at #1 for a record-breaking 7 weeks. With his smash hit album, Whispering Jack is released, it also contains the single, Pressure Down | |
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| Albums released 10 Kola Nuts - Mory Kante 36.5 C - Miyuki Nakajima 5150 - Van Halen ABBA Live - ABBA Alive & Screamin' - Krokus American Girls - American Girls Animal Magic - The Blow Monkeys Another View - The Velvet Underground Another Step - Kim Wilde As Close As You Think - Kevin Ayers Atomizer - Big Black August - Eric Clapton Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood Bad Alchemy nr 4 - Various Artists Balance of Power - Electric Light Orchestra Belinda - Belinda Carlisle Bend Sinister - The Fall Better Than Heaven - Stacey Q Black Celebration - Depeche Mode Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids Brighter Than a Thousand Suns - Killing Joke Bring On the Night - Sting Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Van Beethoven Cendres de Lune - Mylene Farmer Change of Address - Krokus Charlotte for Ever - Charlotte Gainsbourg Chicago 18 - Chicago Chris Isaak - Chris Isaak Classics Live! - Aerosmith Club Ninja - Blue Öyster Cult Constrictor - Alice Cooper Control - Janet Jackson Crowded House - Crowded House Dancing Undercover - Ratt Dangerous Games - Alcatrazz A Date With Elvis - The Cramps David Foster - David Foster Dirty Work (album) - The Rolling Stones Dreaming In Sequence - Chrome Dreamtime - The Stranglers Duotones - Kenny G Eat 'Em and Smile - David Lee Roth Emerald City - Teena Marie Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell EVOL - Sonic Youth Fame and Fortune - Bad Company Fight! - Various Artists Finyl Vinyl - Rainbow First Release - Goo Goo Dolls Flaunt It - Sigue Sigue Sputnik Fore! - Huey Lewis & The News Forever Breathes the Lonely Word - Felt From Luxury to Heartache - Culture Club Frontal Assault - Angel Witch Game Over - Nuclear Assault Gift - The Sisterhood Graceland - Paul Simon Gruts - Ivor Cutler GTR - GTR Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam Guitar Town - Steve Earle Hey... Bo Diddley In Concert - Bo Diddley with Mainsqueeze High Priest Of Love EP - Zodiac Mindwarp Highlights of a Dangerous Life - The Johnnys Home Of The Brave - Laurie Anderson Horse Rotorvator - Coil Hot Together - Pointer Sisters Hwgr Grawth-Og - Datblygu I Against I - Bad Brains In America EP - Britny Fox In the Pines - The Triffids In The Army Now - Status Quo In Visible Silence - Art of Noise Inside the Electric Circus - W.A.S.P. Inside - Matthew Sweet Intermission - Dio Into The Light - Chris de Burgh Invisible Touch - Genesis Isyu! - Ebiet G. Ade Keys to Imagination - Yanni Kicking Against the Pricks - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds A Kind of Magic - Queen King of America - Elvis Costello Kings of Punk - Poison Idea Knocked Out Loaded - Bob Dylan Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares - Le Myste`re des Voix Bulgares Le Visage de l'Amour - Dalida Le sixie`me jour - Dalida Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death - Felt Letters Home - News from Babel Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - The Go-Betweens Licensed to Ill - The Beastie Boys Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M. Lightning Strikes - Loudness Like a Rock - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Little Miss Dangerous - Ted Nugent Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide - Guns N' Roses Live 1975-1985 - Bruce Springsteen Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne Look What the Cat Dragged In - Poison Love in Bright Landscapes - The Triffids Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett Master of Puppets - Metallica Master of The Metal - Messiah Prophet Mean Business - The Firm Mechanical Resonance - Tesla Menace to Society - Lizzy Borden Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse - Skinny Puppy Mind's Eye - Vinnie Moore Morbid Visions - Sepultura (Debut) Mosaic - Wang Chung Nasty, Nasty - Black 'N Blue Nerve War - Front Line Assembly Night Songs - Cinderella No. 10, Upping St. - Big Audio Dynamite No Guru, No Method, No Teacher - Van Morrison Not of This Earth - Joe Satriani Notorious - Duran Duran November-Coming-Fire - Samhain Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt - Die Flippers On the Beach - Chris Rea Orgasmatron - Motörhead Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Parade - Prince and the Revolution Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth Pearls of Passion - Roxette Permanent Sleep - Lowlife Pleasure to Kill - Kreator Portfolio - The Michael Schenker Group Prince Ivor - Ivor Cutler Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain QR III - Quiet Riot R-N-B Skeletons In The Closet-George Clinton Rage for Order - Queensry"che Rapture - Anita Baker Raised On Radio - Journey Raising Hell - Run DMC Rat in the Kitchen - UB40 Reign in Blood - Slayer Reivax Au Bongo - Hector Zazou Rendez-Vous - Jean Michel Jarre Russian Roulette - Accept Scoundrel Days - a-ha Seventh Star - Black Sabbath *** Mad - NoMeansNo Shot in the Dark - Great White Silk And Steel - Five Star Skylarking - XTC Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi So - Peter Gabriel Solitude/Solitaire - Peter Cetera Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden Sound Of Confusion - Spacemen 3 Stand Tall - Killer Dwarfs Staring at the Sea: the Singles - The Cure Storms of Life - Randy Travis Strange Land - Box of Frogs Strength in Numbers - .38 Special Strong Persuader - Robert Cray Synthetic Socks - Ween Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America - Culturcide The Bridge - Billy Joel The Circle & The Square - Red Box The Collection - Amy Grant The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk The Divine Punishment - Diamanda Galás The Doctor - Cheap Trick The Final Countdown - Europe The Final Frontier - Keel The Good Earth - The Feelies The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths The Rainmakers - The Rainmakers The Seer - Big Country The Ultimate Sin - Ozzy Osbourne The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & the Range The Yellow and Black Attack - Stryper Then & Now... the Best of The Monkees - The Monkees They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - Kenny Rogers They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants Third Stage - Boston Thrill of a Lifetime - King Kobra To Hell with the Devil - Stryper Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Tom Cochrane & Red Rider Tones - Eric Johnson Total Terror - Front Line Assembly Trick or Treat - Fastway Trilogy - Yngwie Malmsteen True as Steel - Warlock True Blue - Madonna True Colors - Cyndi Lauper True Confessions - Bananarama True Stories - Talking Heads Truthdare Doubledare - Bronski Beat Turbo - Judas Priest Utter Madness - Madness Velvet & Steel - Dion DiMucci Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion Walking Through Fire - April Wine Want Some - Rough Cutt Weird Love - The Scientists What Do You Know Deutschland? - KMFDM When In Rome Do As The Vandals - The Vandals Whispering Jack - John Farnham Who Made Who - AC/DC Wonderland - Erasure Yemenite Songs - Ofra Haza Your Funeral, My Trial - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Zebra/3.V|3.V - Zebra New Trails - Riders in the Sky | |
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| 1987
Bands formed
Alice in Chains BaBe Blitzkrieg (pre-Therion) Burzum Cheater Slicks Danzig Fugazi Gin Blossoms The Headstones Nirvana Paul Oakenfold Operation Ivy Poster Children Sticks and Stones Sven Gali Green Day
Bands disbanded
The Motels The Tubes Twisted Sister Warlock Grim Reaper GTR Hüsker Dü The Smiths Zebra
Events
January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
February 6 - Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
February 14–March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's biggest hit song.
February 24 - Legendary radio personality Jim Connors dies in a fatal car crash.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 9 - Carole King is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City; The career that would end in an infamous appearance at The Brit awards and the burning of a million pounds began in Britain, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released their debut single, "All You Need Is Love". Their debut album, 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), would follow in June.
March 13 - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions
March 13 - In the US, Bryan Adams' "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California
April 23 - Carole King sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
June 14 - Madonna starts her Who's That Girl Tour in Osaka, Japan.
June 27 - Whitney Houston's second album Whitney becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
July 21 - Guns N' Roses release their debut album Appetite for Destruction
August 3 - Def Leppard release their 4th studio album Hysteria
September 6 - Madonna ends her Who's That Girl Tour in Florence, Italy.
September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart. The publication day of new charts is moved from Tuesday to Sunday.
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up - they would not reunite until the end of the 1990s.
October 19 - Mötley Crüe release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
October 19 - English cellist, Jacqueline du Pre dies at the age of 42.
October 31 -The Zorros headline on the Halloween for the last ever show at the Crystal Ballroom, Saint Kilda Melbourne's premier Punk/ New Wave Venue. The Crystal Ballroom had seen almost ten years of intense Musical Evolution. The venue had Chandeliers, stained glass windows, paisley wallpaper and a tiled foyer.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
December 23 - Nikki Sixx of the rock band Mötley Crüe suffered a heroin overdose, but was revived shortly thereafter.
Social Distortion returns to record Prison Bound
Winger signs to Atlantic Records
Kylie Minogue's recording career begins, when her cover version of the Little Eva hit The Loco-Motion spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia and leads to a contract with UK based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman.
Lynyrd Skynyrd reforms and now has Ronnie Van Zant's little brother Johnny Van Zant as lead singer.
The Smiths disband after Guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr leaves the band.
Andreas Kisser replaces Jairo Guedes in Sepultura. | |
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| Albums released ...Nothing Like the Sun - Sting 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu 2X4 - Guadalcanal Diary) 3.V - Zebra A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd A More Perfect Union - Icon A Very Special Christmas - Various Artists Abigail - King Diamond Actually - Pet Shop Boys Akwaba Beach - Mory Kanté All Systems Go - Donna Summer All the Best! - Paul McCartney Alphabet City - ABC Among the Living - Anthrax Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses Back for the Attack - Dokken Bad - Michael Jackson Bad Animals - Heart Bad Animals - Heart Bennett/Berlin - Tony Bennett Best of the West - Riders in the Sky Between The Lines - Five Star Beverly Hills Cop II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Big Generator - Yes Bigger and Deffer - LL Cool J Bird Dog - The Verlaines Bombay City - Remo Fernandez Brave Words - The Chills Brenda K. Starr - Brenda K. Starr Bridge of Spies - T'Pau Bring the Family - John Hiatt Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos Calenture - The Triffids Calm Before the Storm - Venom Career of Evil: The Metal Years - Blue Öyster Cult Characters - Stevie Wonder Cher - Cher Classics Live II - Aerosmith Cleanse Fold and Manipulate - Skinny Puppy Cloud Nine - George Harrison Clutching at Straws - Marillion Come on Pilgrim - Pixies Coming Around Again - Carly Simon Contagious - Y&T Control: The Remixes - Janet Jackson Crazy Nights - Kiss Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull Criminal Minded - Boogie Down Productions Daddy's Highway - The Bats Dancing with Strangers - Chris Rea Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain Dawn - Current 93 Death Before Dishonour - The Exploited Deathcrush - Mayhem Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil Diminuendo - Lowlife Dirty Dancing soundtrack - Various Artists Document - R.E.M. Don't Let's Start (EP) - They Might Be Giants Dream Evil - Dio Earth, Sun, Moon - Love and Rockets Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen Electric - The Cult Escape From Noise - Negativland Exposure - Exposé F.L.M. - Mel and Kim Faith - George Michael Famous Blue Raincoat - Jennifer Warnes Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat Fighting the World - Manowar Floodland - The Sisters of Mercy Frehley's Comet - Ace Frehley Frehley's Comet - Ace Frehley Funhouse - Funhouse Get Close To My Love - Jennifer Holliday Girls, Girls, Girls - Mötley Crüe Gluey Porch Treatments - The Melvins Go On... - Mr. Mister Halfway to Sanity - Ramones Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage Heaven on Earth - Belinda Carlisle Hold Your Fire - Rush How Ya Like Me Now - Kool Moe Dee Huevos - Meat Puppets Hurricane Eyes - Loudness Hysteria - Def Leppard I Prefer The Moonlight - Kenny Rogers I'm the Man - Anthrax Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist In Dreams: The Greatest Hits - Roy Orbison In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs In the Dark - The Grateful Dead Inside Information - Foreigner Into the Fire - Bryan Adams Introduce Yourself - Faith No More Introducing the Hardline According to... - Terence Trent D'Arby Introducing the Hardline According to... - Terence Trent D'Arby Islands - Mike Oldfield It's Better To Travel - Swing Out Sister Jackomo - Little Annie Anxiety Bandez Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Join the Army - Suicidal Tendencies Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist's solo debut) Keel - Keel Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 - Helloween Kick - INXS King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure La Bamba soundtrack - Los Lobos et al. Lee Aaron - Lee Aaron Less Than Zero soundtrack - Various Artists Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Let it Loose - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine Life - Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live At The Ritz - Ronnie Wood & Bo Diddley Live and Loud!! - Sham 69 Live at Wembley - Meat Loaf Live...In the Raw - W.A.S.P. Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa Louder Than Bombs - The Smiths Love Is for Suckers - Twisted Sister (final album) Lubricated Goat Plays the Devil's Music (debut) - Lubricated Goat Maggots: The Record - Plasmatics Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat Man of Colours - Icehouse Mark Stewart - Mark Stewart Men and Women - Simply Red Menjaring Matahari - Ebiet G. Ade Midnight to Midnight - The Psychedelic Furs Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode Music to Strip By - Half Japanese N.W.A. and the Posse - N.W.A. Never Again - TexA.N.S. Never Let Me Down - David Bowie Nightfall - Candlemass Now That's What I Call Music 10 (UK series) - Various Artists Now That's What I Call Music 9 (UK series) - Various Artists Official Version - Front 242 Once Bitten... - Great White One Night Stand - Flamin' Groovies One Way Home - The Hooters Out of Silence - Yanni Out of the Blue - Debbie Gibson Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim Perfect Timing - McAuley Schenker Group Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith Persecution Mania - Sodom Piledriver - The Wrestling Album II - World Wrestling Federation Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) - Happy Mondays Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements Pleasures of the Flesh - Exodus Poem of the River - Felt Poetic Champions Compose - Van Morrison Pool It! - The Monkees Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats Popped In Souled Out - Wet Wet Wet Pride - White Lion Priest...Live! - Judas Priest Primitive Cool - Mick Jagger Radio K.A.O.S. - Roger Waters Raise Your Fist and Yell - Alice Cooper Raising Fear - Armored Saint Ready or Not - Lou Gramm Recently - Joan Baez Rhyme Pays - Ice T Right Now! - Pussy Galore Rock 'n' Roll - Motörhead Rock You To Hell - Grim Reaper (final album) Rock the House - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Running in the Family - Level 42 Saddle Pals - Riders in the Sky Saint Julian - Julian Cope Sammy Hagar - Sammy Hagar Savage - Eurythmics Schizophrenia - Sepultura Scream Bloody Gore - Death Scum - Napalm Death Secrets Of Synthesis - Wendy Carlos Secrets of the Beehive - David Sylvian Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Sign o' The Times - Prince Signs of Life - Penguin Cafe Orchestra Silence - Stephan Eicher Sinitta! - Sinitta Sister - Sonic Youth Sold - Boy George Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega Speed Metal Symphony - Cacophony Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Starting Up - Roy Wood State of Mind - Front Line Assembly Stereoland - The Modern Art Stinkfist - Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths Strength of Steel - Anvil Substance - New Order Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani Surveillance - Triumph Taking Over - Overkill Tallulah - The Go-Betweens Tango in the Night - Fleetwood Mac Tell No Tales - TNT The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica The Best Of Dalida, Vol. 2 - Dalida (compilation) The Blanton-Webster Years - Duke Ellington The Circus - Erasure The Cost of Loving - The Style Council The Cowboy Way - Riders in the Sky The Eternal Idol - Black Sabbath The House of Blue Light - Deep Purple The Hunger - Michael Bolton The Initial Command - Front Line Assembly The Joshua Tree - U2 The Legacy - Testament The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad O'Connor The Lonesome Jubilee - John Mellencamp The Old Masters Box Three - Frank Zappa The Perfect Prescription - Spacemen 3 The Princess Bride Soundtrack - Mark Knopfler The Return of Bruno - Bruce Willis The Ultra-Violence - Death Angel The Uplift Mofo Party Plan - Red Hot Chili Peppers The Walking - Jane Siberry The World Won't Listen - The Smiths The Young Gods - The Young Gods Tiffany - Tiffany To the Power of Three - 3 Together Again - The Temptations Too Late To Cry - Alison Krauss Touch - Laura Branigan Tribe - Bernie Taupin Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads Trio - Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton Triumph And Agony - Warlock (final album) Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory Up for a Bit with The Pastels The Pastels Visual Lies - Lizzy Borden Warehouse: Songs and Stories - Hüsker Dü Whenever You Need Somebody - Rick Astley White Fields - The Escape Club Whitecross - Whitecross Whitesnake - Whitesnake Whitney - Whitney Houston Who's That Girl soundtrack - Madonna et al. Wild Frontier - Gary Moore Wild in the Streets - Helix Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - Dead Can Dance Wow! - Bananarama Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy You Can Dance - Madonna You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr. | |
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| 1988
Bands formed
After 7 Anal Cunt Barenaked Ladies B'z Baha Men Cypress Hill Deftones Dream Warriors The Fauves Guttermouth Jesus Jones Megatherion (pre-Therion) Morrissey begins solo career Mr. Big Nine Inch Nails Pennywise The Smashing Pumpkins Sublime The April Skies The Sundays The Swirling Eddies Traveling Wilburys Turbonegro Warrior Soul
Bands disbanded
The Bangles (reformed in 2000) Big Black Bo?wy The Cars The Communards Reagan Youth (reformed in 2006) The Damned Dokken Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) (reformed in 2000) Face to Face Fish leaves British neo-progressive rock group Marillion. Heaven 17 The Housemartins Lords of the New Church The Sound Supertramp Til Tuesday
Events
Peter Ruzicka became director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Andrew Davis became musical director of Glyndebourne.
Acid house music swept the UK. The year would later be known as the "Second Summer of Love".
Alice Cooper began production of his album Trash.
Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experienced a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaked at number 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
January – The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, California, USA, was broadcast.
February 13 - Michael Jackson purchased a ranch in Santa Ynez, California, USA. He called his new home "Neverland".
February 16 - Billy Vera received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
February 17 - A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida, USA, was badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's Live Wire music video and suffered burns over ten percent of his body. Mötley Crüe issued a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.
February 24 - Alice Cooper announced that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona, USA.
March 10 - During a concert in Perth, Western Australia, George Michael thanked Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Music Resource Center, for helping the sales of his Faith album.
March 12 - Record producer Jimmy Iovine presented the Special Olympics with a donation of US$5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
March 13 - The 77s, House of Freaks and The Alarm performed at Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, USA. Neil Young was in attendance.
April – July - Suicidal Tendencies recorded How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today.
April 19 - Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono was inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California, USA.
May 1 - Citing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, a judge dropped all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy magazine in which he called Powers a "creep".
July 1 - Quartetto Cetra played their last concert.
August 20 - Two people are crushed to death at the annual Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, UK. during the Guns N' Roses set.
August 28 - While travelling down the Ventura Freeway in southern California, USA, the motorhome carrying the Charlie Daniels band burst into flames. Daniels and his band members escaped without injury.
September 10 - Billboard magazine published its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for the first time.
October 10 - Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in the UK.
November - The "Guess The Eddies" contest began, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies.
November 24 - Keith Richards and The X-Pensive Winos opened their U.S. tour in Atlanta, Georgia.
December 4 - Singer Roy Orbison gave his last concert in Akron, Ohio, USA, before his death from a massive heart attack.
December 28 - A few days before the release of her new album Like A Prayer, Madonna filed assault charges against her husband, Sean Penn. Though she later dropped the charges, the couple separated three days later and were divorced soon after, in 1989.
December 31 - Genesis & Sunrise/Back to the Future staged the biggest acid house party in the world in a warehouse in Hackney, London, UK, with 5,000 people attending. | |
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| Albums released "Them" - King Diamond ...And Justice for All - Metallica 16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens 20 - Harry Connick, Jr. 20 Years of Jethro Tull - Jethro Tull 47 Song Demo - Anal Cunt 50 Gates Of Wisdom - Ofra Haza 69 - A R Kane A Classic Guide To No Man's Land - various artists A Salt with a Deadly Pepa - Salt-n-Pepa Against the Flow - Upper Hutt Posse Ain't Misbehavin' - UFO Ainsi Soit Je... - Myle`ne Farmer All or Nothing - Milli Vanilli Almost Acoustic - Jerry Garcia American Dream - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Ancient Dreams - Candlemass Ancient Heart - Tanita Tikaram B'Sides Themselves - Marillion Barbed Wire Kisses - The Jesus and Mary Chain Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé Battalions of Fear - Blind Guardian Beaches soundtrack - Bette Midler Beast from the East - Dokken Big Deal - Killer Dwarfs Big Thing - Duran Duran Blow My Fuse - Kix Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins Boingo Alive - Oingo Boingo Breakwater - Lennie Gallant Britny Fox - Britny Fox Bug - Dinosaur Jr. BulletBoys - BulletBoys Bummed - Happy Mondays Buster: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Phil Collins et al. By All Means Necessary - Boogie Down Productions California - American Music Club Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm - Joni Mitchell Chameleon Days - Yanni Chicago 19 - Chicago Chobba B C.C.C.P. - Paul McCartney (limited release) Cocktail Soundtrack - Various Artists Colin James - Colin James Coming Back Hard Again - The Fat Boys Conscious Party - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers Convergence - Front Line Assembly Copperhead Road - Steve Earle Corrosion - Front Line Assembly Critical Beatdown - Ultramagnetic MCs Crossroads - Eric Clapton Dangerous Age - Bad Company Danzig - Danzig Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd Diamond Sun - Glass Tiger Disorder - Front Line Assembly Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown Don't Blow Your Top - KMFDM Down in the Groove - Bob Dylan Dream of Life - Patti Smith E Tü - Upper Hutt Posse Earth Covers Earth - Current 93 Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E El Mundo - Mitsou Even Worse - "Weird Al" Yankovic Everything - The Bangles Falling Up - Kevin Ayers Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys Flag - Yello Follow the Leader - Eric B & Rakim Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul From Langley Park to Memphis - Prefab Sprout Front by Front - Front 242 G N' R Lies - Guns N' Roses Gems - Aerosmith Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings Giving You the Best That I Got - Anita Baker Goin' Off - Biz Markie Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off! - Various Artists Golden Tops The Zorros Goodbye Girl - Miyuki Nakajima Greatest Hits - Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits - Journey Greatest Hits Live - Carly Simon Green - R.E.M. Green Thoughts - The Smithereens Greg Howe - Greg Howe Guitar - Frank Zappa Hairway to Steven - Butthole Surfers Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard Hang Time - Soul Asylum Hangin' Tough - New Kids on the Block Hard Machine - Stacey Q Heart Attack - Krokus Heavy Nova - Robert Palmer Hell-O - GWAR History of a Time to Come - Sabbat Hit Me With The Surreal Feel - Kim Salmon And The Surrealists Hold Me in Your Arms - Rick Astley Hold an Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today - Suicidal Tendencies I Am Kurious Oranj - The Fall I Used to Be an Animal - Eric Burdon I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'Em - Ted Nugent Imagine: John Lennon - John Lennon et al. Imaginos - Blue Öyster Cult In Battle There Is No Law - Bolt Thrower In Effect Mode - Al B. Sure! In God We Trust - Stryper In Heat - Black 'N Blue Interior Design - Sparks Introspective - Pet Shop Boys Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine It Takes Two - Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 - Helloween King Kobra III - King Kobra Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come Kings of Metal - Manowar Kylie - Kylie Minogue L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns Land of Dreams - Randy Newman Lap of Luxury - Cheap Trick Lead Me On - Amy Grant Leprosy - Death Let It Bee - Voice of the Beehive Let's Get It Started - MC Hammer Life's Too Good - The Sugarcubes Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe Lincoln - They Might Be Giants Lita - Lita Ford Live+1 - Frehley's Comet - Live EP +1 studio track Long Cold Winter - Cinderella Long Live the Kane - Big Daddy Kane Look Sharp! - Roxette Lovesexy - Prince Lucille - Little Richard Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge Money for Nothing - Dire Straits My Nation Underground - Julian Cope Nada como el sol - Sting Naked - Talking Heads New Jersey - Bon Jovi New Light Through Old Windows - Chris Rea No Exit - Fates Warning No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne No Sleep at All - Motörhead Nobody's Perfect - Deep Purple North and South - Gerry Rafferty Nothing Wrong - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction Now That's What I Call Music 11 (UK series) - Various Artists Now That's What I Call Music 12 (UK series) - Various Artists Now That's What I Call Music XIII (UK series) - Various Artists Now and Zen - Robert Plant O Melancolía - Silvio Rodríguez OU812 - Van Halen Odyssey - Yngwie Malmsteen On Target - Fastway Only Life - The Feelies Open Up and Say...Ahh! - Poison Operation: Mindcrime - Queensry"che Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven Out of Order - Rod Stewart Out of This World - Europe Out of the Silent Planet - King's X Outrider - Jimmy Page Outside the Gate - Killing Joke Outside the Gate - Killing Joke Over the Edge - Hurricane Past Masters, Volume One - The Beatles Past Masters, Volume Two - The Beatles People - Hothouse Flowers Perfect Machine - Herbie Hancock Perpetual Burn - Jason Becker Pound For Pound - Anvil Power - Ice T Power Metal - Pantera Prison Bound - Social Distortion Provision - Scritti Politti Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm Ram It Down - Judas Priest Rattle and Hum - U2 Reach for the Sky - Ratt Read All About It - Newsboys Reg Strikes Back - Elton John Riders Radio Theater - Riders in the Sky Roll with It - Steve Winwood Rough Night in Jericho - Dreams So Real Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint Sam & Friends - Sam Hui Savage Amusement - Scorpions Scenes from the Southside - Bruce Hornsby and the Range Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet Second Sighting - Steve Forbert See the Light - Jeff Healey Band Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden Shada y - Ofra Haza Shadowland - k.d. lang Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked Shove It - The Cross Silhouette - Kenny G Simple Pleasures - Bobby McFerrin Sinta - Asin Sketsa Rembulan Emas - Ebiet G. Ade Skyscraper - David Lee Roth Small World - Huey Lewis & The News Smashes, Thrashes & Hits - Kiss So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth Soliloquy for Lilith - Nurse With Wound Sour Mash - Beasts of Bourbon South of Heaven - Slayer Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk Starfish - The Church Staring at the Sun - Level 42 State of Euphoria - Anthrax Stay on These Roads - a-ha Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A. Straight out the Jungle - The Jungle Brothers Streets of This Town - Frehley's Comet Stronger Than Pride - Sade Substance - Joy Division Suffer - Bad Religion Surfer Rosa - Pixies Survive - Nuclear Assault Swastikas for Noddy - Current 93 Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards Temple of Low Men - Crowded House Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Abbey Road E.P. - Red Hot Chili Peppers The Frenz Experiment - The Fall The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick The House of Love - The House of Love The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips The Innocents - Erasure The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry The Live Album - Robert Earl Keen The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween The Madness - The Madness The New Order - Testament The Pictorial Jackson Review - Felt The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies This Note's for You - Neil Young and the Bluenotes Tighten Up, Vol. 88 - Big Audio Dynamite Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore Today - Galaxie 500 Tougher Than Leather - Run-D.M.C. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman Train Above the City - Felt Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys Truth and Soul - Fishbone Two Nuns and a Pack Mule - Rapeman UB40 - UB40 Ultramega OK - Soundgarden Up Your Alley - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy View from the House - Kim Carnes Viva Hate - Morrissey Vivid - Living Colour Vixen - Vixen Volunteer - Sham 69 Watermark - Enya What Good Is Grief to a God? - D.I. What Up, Dog? - Was (Not Was) Wide Awake in Dreamland - Pat Benatar Wild Wild West - The Escape Club Winger - Winger Wyau - Datblygu Y Kant Tori Read - Y Kant Tori Read - featuring Tori Amos You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galás You've Always Got the Blues - Kate Ceberano Young Man Running - Corey Hart | |
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| 1989
Bands formed
Blind Melon Café Tacuba Cap'n Jazz Chainsaw Kittens The Chemical Brothers The Cranberries Blur Codeine Denki Groove dEUS FireHouse Flipper's Guitar Fuel Funkdoobiest Ghetto Concept Guttermouth Jerky Boys Green Day Leftover Salmon Luna Sea Main Source Marilyn Manson Monster Magnet Morphine Pavement Rainbow Butt Monkeys (Finger Eleven) Rascalz the pillows Therapy? Therion Toadies Ulceration (Fear Factory)
Bands disbanded
The Monkees New Edition (reformed in 1996) Operation Ivy Wall of Voodoo
Events
January 7 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 14 - Paul McCartney releases ????? ? ???? exclusively in Russia. Bootleg copies sell for as much as $1,000 in the United States
January 14 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 23 - James Brown is sentenced in Georgia to 6 years in jail in connection with a police chase through two different states
January 25 - Madonna files for divorce from Sean Penn after three-and-a-half years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
January - Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill form the "Keaggy/Stonehill Band" for a one time tour that pays tribute to 1960s artists like The Beatles. Tim Chandler plays bass for the band and David Raven plays drums.
January 28 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (from strength to strength) party in London
February 6 - King Tubby Jamaican dub music master, was shot and killed by unknown persons outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio, probably in a robbery attempt.
February 12 - Tiny Tim launches an unsuccessful campaign to be the mayor of New York City.
February - Roy Orbison joins Elvis Presley as the only singers to ever simultaneously have two Top 5 albums on the Billboard Charts
February 17 - Whitesnake's David Coverdale marries Tawny Kitaen
Alice Cooper completes his return with the album Trash. It becomes one of the best selling albums of the year.
March 6 - Smokey Robinson's autobiography Inside My Life is published. Dream Theater releases their first studio album When Dream and Day Unite
March 21 - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" music video attracts criticism for its use of Catholic iconography and for the use of cross burning imagery, but also garnered praise for its interpretation of discrimination, rape, and faith. Pepsi drops Madonna as a spokesperson out of fear the video will cause religious groups to boycott the company.
April - Three young men attempt to mug record producer and author Reed Arvin. Reed, being a rather large man, was able to go home with his money. The three young men were forced to return to their homes empty handed and nursing a few bruises.
April 9 - The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces that he's getting married to 19 year old Mandy Smith, whom he has dated for 6 years.
April 12 Garth Brooks debut album released, it will reach the top of the Country charts and make top 20 in the American pop charts.
April 28 - Jon Bon Jovi marries his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1 - California jewelry store employees call the police reporting a suspicious person hanging around their store. The person turned out to be Michael Jackson shopping in disguise
May - The first issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope is published
June 13 British-born singer Sonia made her debut Disco hit "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" went straight #1 in her native home country in the UK charts after She was sign PWL Records and team up with Stock Aitken Waterman.
July 9 - All four original members of the Monkees reunite in Los Angeles for a concert performance at the Universal Amphitheater. The following day the quartet attend an induction ceremony at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where they receive a star.
August 11 - 12 - Moscow Music Peace Festival held in the Soviet Union. The event was put together by Doc McGhee and the Make a Wish Foundation to expose the Russian people to western culture, promote international cooperation in fighting the drug war, and promote peace. The event came to epitomize the fall of the Soviet Union and the height of pop metal. Headlined by Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Cinderella, and the Scorpions.
August 31 - The Rolling Stones open their Steel Wheels North American tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 14 - Madonna and Sean Penn's divorce is granted.
December 12 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (the fight goes on) party in London
December 17 - Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman is born as the second child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Amy's 1991 hit "Baby Baby" was dedicated to her.
December 24 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage illegal Acid House party in Slough UK
December 31 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage biggest Acid House (FREE) party (Future Power People) of the night in Slough Panasonic building (15,000 people), which was later joined by Sunrise/Back to the Future after their event was stopped by police. | |
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| Albums released ...But Seriously - Phil Collins ...Twice Shy - Great White 1,000 Hours - Green Day 11 - The Smithereens 13 Songs - Fugazi - Compilation 3 - Violent Femmes 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul 5643 Song EP (EP) - Anal Cunt 88 Song E.P. (EP) - Anal Cunt A Bead to a Small Mouth - Various artists A Black & White Night Live - Roy Orbison and Friends A Night to Remember - Cyndi Lauper A Peacetime Boom - The Boom A Show of Hands - Rush A Word from the Wise - Pennywise (EP) Absolute - various artists Adeva! - Adeva After 7 - After 7 After the War - Gary Moore Agent Orange - Sodom Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles Alice in Hell - Annihilator All Aboard the Mind Train - The Modern Art All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah All That Jazz - Ella Fitzgerald All or Nothing: The U.S. Remix album - Milli Vanilli Allroy's Revenge - ALL Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel And in This Corner… - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Another Place and Time - Donna Summer Anthology - Bad Manners As Nasty As They Wanna Be - 2 Live Crew At Peace - Jade Warrior Automatic - The Jesus and Mary Chain Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison Back on the Block - Quincy Jones Bad English - Bad English Badlands - Badlands Batman - Prince Beneath the Remains - Sepultura Best Shots - Pat Benatar - Greatest Hits Best Wishes - Cro-Mags Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads - Scorpions Beyond the Blue Neon - George Strait Big Daddy - John Mellencamp Big Game - White Lion Bleach - Nirvana Blessing in Disguise - Metal Church Blind Man's Zoo - 10,000 Maniacs Blood, Sweat & No Tears - Sick of it All Blood, Sweat and No Tears - Sick of It All Blow - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Blue Blood - X Japan Blue Murder - Blue Murder Boomerang - The Creatures Bound by the Beauty - Jane Siberry Brain Drain - Ramones Brave and Crazy - Melissa Etheridge Breakin' Through the BS - Bo Diddley Broadway the Hard Way - Frank Zappa Built to Last - The Grateful Dead Bulletproof Heart - Grace Jones Buzz Factory - Screaming Trees Can't Fight Fate - Taylor Dayne Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan Change the Weather - Underworld Christ: The Bootleg - Crass City Streets - Carole King Club Classics Vol. I - Soul II Soul Cocked & Loaded - L.A. Guns Conspiracy - King Diamond Consuming Impulse - Pestilence Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déja` Vu - Suicidal Tendencies Cosmic Thing - The B-52's Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind - Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville - Cuts Both Ways - Gloria Estefan Cyborgs Revisited - Simply Saucer Cycles - The Doobie Brothers DC Talk - dc Talk Danger Danger - Danger Danger Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys Def, Dumb and Blonde - Deborah Harry Depeche Mode Desert Wind - Ofra Haza Devil's Night Out - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Different - Thomas Anders Dig? - Bill Bruford Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Disintegration - The Cure Don't Tell a Soul - The Replacements Doolittle - Pixies Dr. Feelgood - Mötley Crüe Drowning in Limbo - Lydia Lunch Dum-Dum - The Vaselines Dylan & The Dead - Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead Early Music - Santana Earth Moving - Mike Oldfield Eat the Heat - Accept Electric Youth - Debbie Gibson Energy - Operation Ivy Enjoy Yourself - Kylie Minogue Enter the Realm - Iced Earth (demo EP) Enuff Z'nuff - Enuff Z'nuff Escape from Havana - Mellow Man Ace Extreme - Extreme Extreme Aggression - Kreator Fabulous Disaster - Exodus Face of Despair - Mortal Sin Fight The Power...Live! - Public Enemy (live, released on VHS) Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney Flying Cowboys - Rickie Lee Jones Flying in a Blue Dream - Joe Satriani Follow the Blind - Blind Guardian Force Majeure - Doro Foreign Affair - Tina Turner Freedom - Neil Young Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Garth Brooks - Garth Brooks Get Yer Jujus Out - Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band Ghostbusters II Soundtrack - Various Artists Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli Godhead - Lowlife Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - King's X Hallelujah - Happy Mondays Hard Volume - Rollins Band Hats - The Blue Nile Headless Cross - Black Sabbath Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak Heart of Stone - Cher Helter Stupid - Negativland Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! - The Sugarcubes Hot in the Shade - Kiss I Enjoy Being a Girl - Phranc In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson Jaya - Jaya Jed - Goo Goo Dolls Journeyman - Eric Clapton Junta - Phish Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr. Kaleidoscope World - Swing Out Sister Kenny G Live - Kenny G Key Lime Pie - Camper Van Beethoven Killin' Time - Clint Black Kite - Kirsty MacColl Larger than Life - Jody Watley Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz Liberation - Bunny Wailer Like a Prayer - Madonna Live ED - Étienne Daho Living Legend - Bo Diddley Loc'ed After Dark - Tone Loc Long Hard Look - Lou Gramm Looking for Freedom - David Hasselhoff Louder than Love - Soundgarden Love Among the Cannibals - Starship Love and Rockets - Love and Rockets Magnum Cum Louder - Hoodoo Gurus Make Them Die Slowly - White Zombie Margin Walker - Fugazi - EP Me and a Monkey on the Moon - Felt Megatop Phoenix - Big Audio Dynamite Merry, Merry Christmas - New Kids on the Block Mick Jones - Mick Jones Modern - Hijokaidan Monty Python Sings - Monty Python Mother's Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers Mr. Big - Mr. Big Mr. Music Head - Adrian Belew Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison Nearly Human - Todd Rundgren Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) - Terence Trent D'Arby New York - Lou Reed Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt Night of Rage - Kraut Nights Like This - Stacey Q. Niki Nana - Yanni No Control - Bad Religion No Holdin' Back - Randy Travis No More Blues - Susannah McCorkle Nothingface - Voivod Now That's What I Call Music 15 (UK series) - Various Artists Now That's What I Call Music 16 (UK series) - Various Artists Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan Oh Yes I Can - David Crosby On Fire - Galaxie 500 Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God - No (band) Oranges & Lemons - XTC Ozma - Melvins Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel Paul McCartney - Live; exclusive USSR release Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys Penikufesin EP - Anthrax Perfect Symmetry - Fates Warning Piretos tou erota - Vicky Leandros Powertrip - Ludichrist (final album) Practice What You Preach - Testament Presto - Rush Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails Prime 5 - Ween Psycho Café - Bang Tango Pump - Aerosmith Pump Up the Jam: The Album - Technotronic Quickness - Bad Brains Rabies - Skinny Puppy Raging Silence - Uriah Heep Rasta Souvenir - Manu Dibango Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness - Bolt Thrower Record Collectors - Poison Idea Repeat Offender - Richard Marx Results - Liza Minnelli Return of the Ugly - Bad Manners Riders go Commercial - Riders in the Sky Rite Time - Can Rock Island - Jethro Tull Runaway Horses - Belinda Carlisle - S&M Airlines - NOFX Samiam - Samiam Seasons End - Marillion Seminal Live - The Fall Shine - Mother Love Bone Sittin' Pretty - The Pastels Skid Row - Skid Row Sleeping with the Past - Elton John Slip of the Tongue - Whitesnake Slippery When Ill - The Vandals Slowly We Rot - Obituary Soldier of Fortune - Loudness Some Disenchanted Evening - The Verlaines Something Inside So Strong Kenny Rogers Sonic Temple - The Cult Soul Provider - Michael Bolton Spanking Machine - Babes in Toyland Speaking of Dreams - Joan Baez Special - The Temptations Spike - Elvis Costello Steady On - Shawn Colvin Steel Wheels - The Rolling Stones Still Cruisin' - The Beach Boys Stone Cold Rhymin' - Young MC Storm Front - Billy Joel Street Fighting Years - Simple Minds Stuck in Wonderamaland - Dramarama Suck on This - Primus (live debut) Sumiran Karle (Bhajan) - Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta Surprise - Better Than Ezra Surprise - Syd Straw Technique - New Order Tender Lover - Babyface The Biz Never Sleeps - Biz Markie The Black Swan - The Triffids The Breathtaking Blue - Alphaville The Cinderella Theory - George Clinton The Complete Sham 69 Live - Sham 69 The Death of a Dictionary - Public Affection The End of the Innocence - Don Henley The Good News and The Bad News - The Rainmakers The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla The Headless Children - W.A.S.P. The Healer - John Lee Hooker The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say - Ice T The Incredible Base - Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock The Later Years - Roxy Music The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry The Miracle - Queen The Offspring - The Offspring The Other Side of the Mirror - Stevie Nicks The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals The Real Thing - Faith No More The Road to Hell - Chris Rea The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears The Sensual World - Kate Bush The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses The Symphony Sessions - Red Rider The Warmer Side of Cool - Wang Chung The Years of Decay - Overkill Thrash Zone - D.R.I. Through the Storm - Aretha Franklin Tin Machine - Tin Machine Touch - Sarah McLachlan - Arista Records re-release Tragedy Again - D.I. Trash - Alice Cooper Trial by Fire: Live In Leningrad - Yngwie Malmsteen Trouble Walkin' - Ace Frehley Trouble Walkin' - Ace Frehley Tweez - Slint Two Highways - Alison Krauss & Union Station UAIOE - KMFDM UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff - "Weird Al" Yankovic Up To Here - The Tragically Hip Wake Me When It's Over - Faster Pussycat Waking Hours - Del Amitri We Too Are One - Eurythmics West Textures - Robert Earl Keen Western Shadows - Carole Laure What You Don't Know - Exposé When Dream and Day Unite - Dream Theater White Limozeen - Dolly Parton Wild! - Erasure Workin' Overtime - Diana Ross World in Motion - Jackson Browne Wrong - NoMeansNo Yellow Moon - The Neville Brothers Yo Frankie - Dion You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 - Frank Zappa | |
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