1984 in music

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See also: 1983 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'

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 hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
• February 14 - Elton John marries studio engineer Renate Blauel.
• 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.
• 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 falls from 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".
• October 1 - The Jesus & 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).
• Menudo and Menudomania reach Asia. Ricky Martin substitutes Ricky Melendez in the group.
• UK singles sales this year are the second highest ever, after 1978.

Albums released

• Balls to the Wall - Accept
• '74 Jailbreak EP - AC/DC
• Live Sentence - Alcatrazz
• Mast Nazren -Ecstatic Glances Live in London, 1984 - Ghulam Ali
• Forever Young - Alphaville
• Fistful of Metal - Anthrax (debut)
• March of the Saint - Armored Saint (debut album)
• ''Who´s Afraid?(Of the Art Of Noise!) - Art Of Noise
• All Over the Place - The Bangles
• Tropico - Pat Benatar
• Steeltown - Big Country
• Black N' Blue - Black N' Blue
• Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
• Tonight - David Bowie
• Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs
• Self Control - Laura Branigan
• Heartbeat City - The Cars
• Chicago 17 - Chicago
• Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• Dreamtime - Death Cult (Band name was later changed to The Cult)
• Waking Up With the House on Fire - Culture Club
• The Top - The Cure
• Dali - Dalida
• Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
• First strike EP - Def Leppard
• High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard (re-Release)
• Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode
• Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung
• The Last in Line - Dio
• Seasons - Dion DiMucci
• Tooth and Nail - Dokken
• Lady of the Stars - Donovan
• Arena (live album) - Duran Duran
• Wings of Tomorrow - Europe
• Eden - Everything But The Girl
• The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall - The Fall
• All Fired Up - Fastway
• Goan Crazy! - Remo Fernandez
• Dancing on the Edge - Lita Ford
• Agent Provocateur - Foreigner
• Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• About Face - David Gilmour
• Spring Hill Fair - The Go-Betweens
• Straight Ahead - Amy Grant
• Great White (band) - Great White (band)
• See You In Hell - Grim Reaper
• Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man - Guadalcanal Diary (debut)
• Big Bam Boom - Hall & Oates
• VOA - Sammy Hagar
• All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks (live album)
• Two Steps From The Move - Hanoi Rocks
• Walkin' The Razor's Edge - Helix
• The Art of Defense - Nona Hendryx
• Building the Perfect Beast - Don Henley
• I Often Dream of Trains - Robyn Hitchcock
• Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
• Icon - Icon (debut album)
• Powerslave - Iron Maiden
• Dream Street - Janet Jackson
• Heart Don't Lie - LaToya Jackson
• Centipede - Rebbie Jackson
• Victory - Jacksons
• Under Wraps - Jethro Tull
• Breaking Hearts - Elton John
• Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
• Lay Down the Law - Keel (debut album)
• No Kinda Dancer - Robert Earl Keen
• Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite - Killdozer
• Animalize - KISS
• The Blitz - Krokus
• She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
• Give Em' The Axe EP - Lizzy Borden
• How Will the Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos
• Like a Virgin - Madonna
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Rising Force - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (debut)
• Legend: Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers - Bob Marley & the Wailers
• Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney
• Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets
• Revolution - Menudo
• Ride the Lightning - Metallica
• Out of Step - Minor Threat
• Double Nickels on the Dime - The Minutemen
• No Remorse - Motörhead
• Hajimemashite (How Do You Do) - Miyuki Nakajima
• From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Penetrator - Ted Nugent
• Suddenly - Billy Ocean
• [[The Honeydrippers: Volume One]] - Robert Plant
• From The Promised Land - Play Dead
• From The Promised Land (remix) - Play Dead
• Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders
• Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
• The Works - Queen
• The Warning - Queensrÿche (first full length album release)
• Condition Critical - Quiet Riot
• Out of the Cellar - Ratt
• Volume 1 - Reagan Youth
• Breaking Curfew - Red Rider
• Reckoning - R.E.M.
• Let It Be - The Replacements
• What About Me? - Kenny Rogers
• Grace Under Pressure - Rush
• A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg - Scattered Order
• Love At First Sting - Scorpions
• Like A Virgin - Madonna
• L.A. Is My Lady - Frank Sinatra
• Hyaena - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Burning Oil - Skeletal Family
• Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
• The Smiths - The Smiths
• Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
• Haunting The Chapel EP - Slayer
• The Yellow and Black Attack EP - Stryper
• Caught In The Act - Styx
• Cats Without Claws - Donna Summer
• Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
• Soul Mining - The The
• Into The Gap - Thompson Twins
• Isolation - Toto
• Private Dancer - Tina Turner
• *her breakthrough solo album
• Thunder Seven - Triumph
• Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
• The Unforgettable Fire - U2
• 1984 - Van Halen
• When In Rome Do As The Vandals - The Vandals
• Beverly Hills Cop (soundtrack) - Various Artists
• Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
• The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters
• No Brakes - John Waite
• Burning The Witches - Warlock (debut album)
• W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. (debut album)
• Pagan Place - The Waterboys
• Lights Out - Peter Wolf
• The Woman in Red - (cinematic soundtrack by Stevie Wonder)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam (debut)
• In Rock We Trust - Y&T
• Nave Maria - Tom Zé
• No Tellin' Lies - Zebra

Top hits

• "Against All Odds" - Phil Collins
• "All Cried Out" - Alison Moyet
• "All Through the Night" - Cyndi Lauper
• "An Innocent Man" - Billy Joel
• "Automatic" - Pointer Sisters
• "Be My Number Two" - Joe Jackson
• "Better Be Good To Me" - Tina Turner
• "Big City Nights" - The Scorpions
• "Blue Jean" - David Bowie
• "Careless Whisper" - Wham! Featuring George Michael
• "Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)" - Billy Ocean
• "Centipede" - Rebbie Jackson
• "Cherry Oh Baby" - UB40
• "Cover Me" - Bruce Springsteen
• "Crazy" - Kenny Rogers
• "Cruel Summer" - Bananarama
• "Cry and Be Free" - Marilyn
• "Dance Hall Days" - Wang Chung
• "Dancing In The Dark" - Bruce Springsteen
• "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" - Ultravox
• "Distant Early Warning" - Rush
• "Doctor! Doctor!" - Thompson Twins
• "Don't Tell Me" - Blancmange
• "Drive" - Cars
• "Easy Lover" - Phillip Bailey duet with Phil Collins
• "Eyes Without A Face" - Billy Idol
• "Flame Trees" - Cold Chisel
• "Flesh For Fantasy" - Billy Idol
• "Footloose" - Kenny Loggins
• "Forest Fire" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• "Freedom" - Wham!
• "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
• "Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Jr.
• "Half A Boy Half A Man" - Nick Lowe
• "Hammer To Fall" - Queen
• "Heaven's On Fire" - Kiss
• "Here Comes The Rain Again" - The Eurythmics
• "High on Emotion" - Chris De Burgh
• "Heaven (Must Be There) Eurogliders #1 (a)
• "Hold On To Love" - Gary Moore
• "Hot Water" - Level 42
• "I Scare Myself" - Thomas Dolby
• "I Want A New Drug" Huey Lewis and the News
• "I Want To Break Free" - Queen
• "I Want To Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
• "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" - Nik Kershaw
• "Invisible" - Alison Moyet
• "If This Is It" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "It's A Hard Life" - Queen
• "It's a Miracle" - Culture Club
• "Jokerman" - Bob Dylan
• "Jump" - Van Halen
• "Kalimba De Luna" - Dalida
• "L'Innamorata" - Dalida
• "Let's Go Crazy" - Prince and the Revolution
• "Lights Out" - Peter Wolf
• "Locomotion" - OMD
• "Madam Butterfly" - Malcolm McLaren
• "Message To The Girl" - Split Enz
• "Michael Caine" - Madness
• "Missing You" - John Waite
• "Mistake No. 3" - Culture Club
• "My Ever Changing Moods" - Style Council
• "No Mercy" - The Stranglers
• "No More Lonely Nights" - Paul McCartney
• "One Love/People Get Ready" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• "One Night In Bangkok" - Murray Head
• "Original Sin" - INXS
• "Panama" - Van Halen
• "Pearl In The Shell" - Howard Jones
• "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" - Cocteau Twins
• "People Are People" - Depeche Mode
• "Perfect Skin" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• "Pour te dire je t'aime" - Dalida
• "Pride(In The Name Of Love)" - U2
• "Purple Rain" - Prince and the Revolution
• "Radio Ga Ga" - Queen
• "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
• "Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• "Robert De Niro's Waiting" - Bananarama
• "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - The Scorpions
• "Runaway" - Bon Jovi
• "Saturday Night" - Cold Chisel
• "Self Control" - Laura Branigan
• "Seven Seas" - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "She Bop" - Cyndi Lauper
• "She Was Hot" - Rolling Stones
• "Shout" - Tears For Fears
• "Shout To The Top" - Style Council
• "Silver" - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "Skin Deep" - Stranglers
• "Soul Kind Of Feeling - Dynamic Hepnotics
• "Smooth Operator" - Sade
• "So Tired" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Soleil" - Dalida
• "Somebody's Watching Me" - Rockwell
• "Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rod Stewart
• "Standing In The Shadows" - Whitesnake
• "That's All" - Genesis
• "The Killing Moon" - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "The Heart of Rock and Roll" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "The Longest Time" - Billy Joel
• "The Lucky One" - Laura Branigan
• "The More You Live The More You Love" - A Flock of Seagulls
• "The Never Ending Story" - Limahl
• "The Power Of Love" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• "The Reflex" - Duran Duran
• "The War Song" - Culture Club
• "The Wild Boys" - Duran Duran
• "Thin Line Between Love And Hate" - Pretenders
• "Ti Amo" - Laura Branigan
• "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper
• "Tinseltown In The Rain" - Blue Nile
• "To France" - Mike Oldfield
• "Together In Electric Dreams" - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
• "Torture" - Jacksons
• "TV Dinners" - ZZ Top
• "Two Tribes" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• "Up On The Catwalk" - Simple Minds
• "Very Personal" - Ian Dury
• "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" - Wham!
• "We Rock" - Dio
• "What About Me?" - Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram
• "What Difference Does It Make" - The Smiths
• "What's Love Got to Do with It" - Tina Turner
• "When Am I Gonna Make A Living" - Sade
• "When Doves Cry" - Prince
• "When Love Breaks Down" - Prefab Sprout
• "Where The Rose Is Sown" - Big Country
• "William It Was Really Nothing" - The Smiths
• "Wood Beez" - Scritti Politti
• "Wouldn't It Be Good" - Nik Kershaw
• "You Don't Love Me" - Marilyn
• "You Might Think" - The Cars
• "You Think You're a Man" - Divine
• "You're The Best Thing" - Style Council
• "Young At Heart" - The Bluebells
• "Your Love Is King" - Sade

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1984

Christmas songs

• "Do They Know It's Christmas" - Band Aid
• "Last Christmas" - Wham!
• "Thank God It's Christmas" - Queen

Published popular music

• "After All These Years" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander from the musical The Rink
• "The Cosby Show theme song" m. Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby
• "Cover Me" w.m. Bruce Springsteen
• "Every Time I Turn Around" w.m. Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, theme from the TV series Punky Brewster
• "Friends" m. John Leffler, theme from the TV series Kate and Allie
• "Ghostbusters"     w.m. Ray Parker Jr.
• "I Just Called To Say I Love You"     w.m. Stevie Wonder
• "Let's Go Crazy" w.m. Prince and the Revolution
• "Like A Virgin" w.m. Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly
• "Lights Out" w.m. Peter Wolf & Don Covay
• "Missing You" w.m. John Waite, Chaz Sanford & Mark Leonard
• "Murder. She Wrote theme song" m. John Addison
• "No More Lonely Nights" w.m. Paul McCartney
• "Rock You Like A Hurricane" w.m. Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine & Herman Rarebell
• "Time After Time" w.m. Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman
• "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" w. Hal David m. Albert Hammond
• "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" w.m. George Michael
• "What's Love Got To Do With It" w.m. Terry Britten & Graham Lyle
• "When Doves Cry" w.m. Prince

• Samuel Adler - Sonata for Viola and Piano
• Brian Cherney - Into the Distant Stillness
• George Crumb - A Haunted Landscape for orchestra
• George Crumb - The Sleeper for soprano and piano
• Mario Davidovsky - Divertimento for cello and orchestra
• Ludovico Einaudi - Altissimo
• Daron Hagen - A Walt Whitman Requiem
• John Harbison - String Quartet no. 1
• Robin Holloway - Viola concerto
• Ian McDougall - Concerto for Clarinet
• Elizabeth Maconchy - String Quartet no. 13, Quartetto Corto
• Ingram Marshall - Voces Resonae
• Steve Reich - The Desert Music
• Tōru Takemitsu - riverrun for piano and orchestra
• Robert Ward - Saxophone Concerto

• Harrison Birtwistle - The Mask of Orpheus
• Philip Glass - Akhnaten
• Krzysztof Penderecki - The Black Mask

• Starlight Express - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe
• Forty-Second Street     London production
• The Rink     Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on February 9 and ran for 233 performances
• Sunday in the Park with George (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway production opened at the Booth Theatre on May 2 and ran for 604 performances.

• The Cotton Club
• The Muppets Take Manhattan

Births

• March 18 - Vonzell Solomon, US singer
• March 20 - Winta
• April 10 - Mandy Moore
• June 29 - Han Ji-hye, Korean actress/singer
• June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer
• July 24 - Dhani Lennevald, tallest of A-Teens
• July 26 - Alex Parks, singer
• August 21 - Melissa Schuman, Singer Dream (Group)
• August 21 - Alizée, singer
• September 13 - Amy Winehouse, English singer
• September 16 - Katie Melua, Georgian singer and musician
• October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, singer
• October 10 - Stephanie Cheng, singer
• October 12 - Matthew Dewey, Australian Composer
• October 25 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, youngest of A-Teens
• October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, singer
• November 9 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer and actress

Deaths

• February 15 - Ethel Merman
• April 1 - Marvin Gaye
• April 6 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish-born British songwriter
• April 26 - Count Basie, jazz musician
• May 1 - Gordon Jenkins, US conductor, songwriter and pianist
• June 15 - Meredith Willson, US songwriter
• July 31 - Paul Le Flem, composer
• September 6 - Ernest Tubb country western musician
• December 9 - Razzle (Nicholas Dingley), drummer of Hanoi Rocks

Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1984

• Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Charts

• Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1984

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1984

External Charts

• [Pop Culture Madness 1984 Music Chart]

 

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