1988 in music
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See also: 1987 in music, other events of 1988, 1989 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'
Contents
Events
- Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
- January – Broadcast of 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.
- February 13 - Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
- February 16 - Billy Vera receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
- February 17 - A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy 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 announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona.
- March 10 - During a concert in Perth, Western Australia, George Michael thanks Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Music Resource Center, for helping the sales of his Faith album.
- March 12 - Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
- April to July - Suicidal Tendencies records How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?, which will be a blockbuster album on September 13
- March 13 - The 77s, House of Freaks and the Alarm perform at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Neil Young is in attendance.
- April 19 - Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
- May 1 - Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops 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's last concert.
- August 28 - While traveling down the Ventura Freeway in Southern California, the motor home carrying the Charlie Daniels band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
- October 10 - Acid House: Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in UK
- November - The "Guess The Eddies" contest begins, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies.
- Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
- December 4 - singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio.
- December 31 - Acid House: Genesis & Sunrise/Back to the Future stage the biggest Acid Party in the world in a warehouse in Hackney, UK (5,000 people)
- Nirvana's career begins
- Phish's career begins
- Barenaked Ladies form.
- Morrissey begins solo career
- The Offspring begin their recording career
- Baha Men forms
- After 7 forms
- Blind Melon forms
- Garth Brooks signs to Capitol records.
- Blues Traveler forms
- Cypress Hill forms
- The Fauves form
- Guttermouth forms
- Jesus Jones forms
- No Doubt forms
- Pennywise forms
- Radiohead forms (as On A Friday)
- Smashing Pumpkins forms
- Sublime forms
- The Sundays forms
- Warrior Soul forms
- Big Black break up
- Boøwy break up
- Hüsker Dü break up
- The Damned break up
- The Housemartins break up
- The Communards break up
- Heaven 17 break up
- Supertramp break up
- The Cars break up
- Fish leaves British neo-progressive rock group Marillion.
Albums released
- Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC
- Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (debut)
- Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
- Y Kant Tori Read - Tori Amos (debut)
- State Of Euphoria - Anthrax
- Pound For Pound - Anvil
- Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint
- Sinta - Asin (band)
- Sour Mash - The Beasts Of Bourbon
- Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
- Wide Awake In Dreamland - Pat Benatar
- Small Block - Big Drill Car (EP)
- Leather Donut - Black Eye Compilation
- In Heat - Black N' Blue (final album)
- In Battle There Is No Law - Bolt Thrower
- New Jersey - Bon Jovi
- Britny Fox - Britny Fox (debut)
- Bullet Boys - Bullet Boys (debut)
- Brave - Kate Cebrano
- Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (debut)
- 19 - Chicago
- Starfish - The Church
- Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
- I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
- The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies
- Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray
- Dangerous Age - Bad Company
- Earth Covers Earth - Current 93
- Danzig - Danzig (debut, Glenn Danzig's 3rd band following The Misfits & Samhain)
- Wyau - Datblygu
- Leprosy - Death
- Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
- Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
- Beast From the East - Dokken (live album)
- Big Thing - Duran Duran
- Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
- Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E
- Watermark - Enya
- The Innocents - Erasure
- Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
- Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
- Out of This World - Europe
- Fabulous Disaster - Exodus
- On Target - Fastway (final album)
- No Exit - Fates Warning
- Only Life - The Feelies
- Truth and Soul - Fishbone
- Lita - Lita Ford
- Live 1 EP - Frehley's Comet
- Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet
- Front by Front - Front 242
- Fugazi (album) - Fugazi (debut EP)
- You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galás
- Breakwater - Lennie Gallant (debut)
- Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
- 16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens
- Lead Me On - Amy Grant
- The Sweet Children - Green Day
- GNR Lies - Guns N' Roses
- Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm (solo debut)
- Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite
- Greg Howe - Greg Howe
- Sam & Friends - Sam Hui
- Over The Edge - Hurricane (debut ALBUM)
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
- Colin James - Colin James
- Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
- 20 Years of Jethro Tull - Jethro Tull
- Reg Strikes Back - Elton John
- Greatest Hits - Journey
- Ram It Down - Judas Priest
- Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
- Shadowland - k.d. lang
- The Live Album - Robert Earl Keen
- Big Deal - Killer Dwarfs
- Smashes, Thrashes & Hits - KISS
- King Kobra III - King Kobra (final album)
- Blow My Fuse - Kix
- Kylie - Kylie (debut album)
- L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns (debut)
- Lucille - Little Richard
- - John Lennon (soundtrack)
- Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
- Vivid - Living Colour
- Honeymoon In Red - Lydia Lunch
- Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
- Odyssey - Yngwie Malmsteen (or Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force)
- So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
- ...And Justice for All - Metallica
- The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
- Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore
- Viva Hate - Morrissey
- No Sleep At All - Motörhead (live album)
- Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
- Goodbye Girl - Miyuki Nakajima
- Land of Dreams - Randy Newman
- Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- If You Can't Lick Em'...Lick Em' - Ted Nugent (last solo album before forming the 90's band Damn Yankees)
- The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad O'Connor
- No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne
- Outrider - Jimmy Page
- Force Majuer - Doro Pesch (former Warlock vocalists solo debut album)
- Introspective - Pet Shop Boys (EP)
- The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
- Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
- Surfer Rosa - Pixies
- Now and Zen - Robert Plant
- Open Up and Say...Ahh!- Poison
- Lovesexy - Prince
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
- - Queensrÿche
- Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
- Green - R.E.M.
- Abbey Road EP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Nothing Wrong - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
- O Melancolía - Silvio Rodríguez
- Skyscraper - David Lee Roth
- Hit Me With The Surreal Feel - Kim Salmon And The Surrealists
- Savage Amusement - Scorpions
- Greatest Hits Live - Carly Simon
- Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard
- VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
- South of Heaven - Slayer
- Green Thoughts - The Smithereens
- Prison Bound - Social Distortion
- Ultramega OK - Soundgarden
- Beaches - Soundtrack
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Soundtrack
- Hard Machine- Stacey Q.
- Out Of Order - Rod Stewart
- In God We Trust - Stryper
- How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies
- Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
- Junekbox - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- The New Order - Testament
- Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
- Hold an Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany
- Ancient Heart - Tanita Tikaram
- Toots in Memphis - Toots
- Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys
- E Tu - Upper Hutt Posse
- The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
- Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
- Winger - Winger (debut)
- Roll With It - Steve Winwood
- Rattle and Hum - U2
- Ain't Misbehavin' - UFO
- E Tü - Upper Hutt Posse
- OU812 - Van Halen
- 3 - Violent Femmes
- Vixen - Vixen (debut)
- Guitar - Frank Zappa
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa
Top hits
- "I Want You Back" - Bananarama
- "Orinoco Flow" - Enya Irish singer
- "Simply Irresistible" - Robert Palmer
- "Tell It To My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
- "Nothing Can Divide Us" - Jason Donovan
- "Age Of Reason" - John Farnham
- "So Excellent" - Kylie Mole
- "Two Strong Hearts" - John Farnham
- "That's When I Think Of You" - 1927
- "Dignity" - Deacon Blue
- "Ship Of Fools" - Erasure
- "Chains Of Love" - Erasure
- "A Little Respect" - Erasure
- "Stop!" - Erasure
- "Devil Inside" - INXS
- "New Sensation" - INXS
- "I Should Be So Lucky" - Kylie Minogue
- "Suedehead" - Morrissey
- "Crash" - The Primitives
- "Angel Of Harlem" - U2
- "Desire" - U2
- "Kokomo" - The Beach Boys
- "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
- "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
- "Lead Me On" - Amy Grant
- "Love Changes Everything" - Climie Fisher
- "When Will I Be Famous" - Bros
- "Push It" - Salt-N-Pepa
- "Revolution Baby" - Transvision Vamp
- "Drop The Boy"- Bros
- "Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
- "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
- "Dirty Diana" - Michael Jackson
- "Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" - Billy Ocean
- "Anything for You" - Gloria Estefan
- "Saved By Love" - Amy Grant
- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
- "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
- "Look Away" - Chicago
- "Quelque part au Soleil" - Dalida (inédit)
- "Johnny B. Goode" - Judas Priest
- "One More Try" - George Michael
- "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
- "Welcome To The Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
- "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses
- "Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction
- "Got My Mind Set On You" - George Harrison
- "1-2-3" - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
- "Forever Young" - Rod Stewart
- "Is this Love" - Whitesnake
- "I Get Weak" - Belinda Carlisle
- "The Promise" - When in Rome
- "When You Put Your Heart In It" - Kenny Rogers
- "Another Lover" - Giant Steps
- "John Skero Goes West" - John Skero
- "Stutter Rap ( No Sleep 'Til Bedtime )" - Morris Minor and the Majors
- "Twist in My Sobriety" - Tanita Tikaram
Top Hits
"Love Bites"- Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me"- Def Leppard
- Gerald Barry - Cheveux-de-frise
- Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI
- George Crumb - Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
- Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
- Joël-François Durand - Die innere Grenze for string sextet
- Henryk Górecki - String Quarted No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
- Stephen Hartke - Pacific Rim Overture
- Nicholas Jackson - Variations on ‘Parise to the Lord, the Almighty’
- António Chagas Rosa - Piano Sonata
- Peter Sculthorpe - Kakadu
- Tōru Takemitsu - Tree Line for chamber orchestra
- John Tavener - The Akathist of Thanksgiving
- Takashi Yoshimatsu - Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"
- Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London revival
- Chess (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus) - Broadway production
- The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
- Sarafina Broadway production
Births
- January 14 - Jordy, French singer
- January 14 - Mikalah Gordon, American Idol contestant
- January 15 - Sonny Moore, American rock singer
- January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi, Fillipina pop singer
- February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese pop singer
- February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
- February 23 - Ashley Cooper, New Zealand pop singer
- February 27 - JD Natasha, American latin music artist
- February 29 - Milly Edwards, Australian Idol contestant
- March 2 - Nadine Samonte, German pop singer
- March 6 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish pop singer
- April 6 - Raymond David Henriksen, Norwegian singer
- April 24 - Natalie Zahra, Australian Idol contestant
- April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
- May 2 - Guilherme Rodrigues, Portuguese jazz musician
- May 2 - Brooke Hogan, American pop singer
- May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
- May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol winner
- May 24 - Billy Gilman, American country singer
- June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
- June 6 - Neha Kakkar, Indian pop singer
- June 12 - Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter
- June 16 - Keshia Chante, Canadian urban singer
- June 19 - Magdalena Diaków, Polish pop singer
- June 29 - Martina Šindlerová, Slovak pop singer
- July 2 - Amali Ward, Australian Idol contestant
- July 7 - Kaci Brown, American pop/R&B singer
- July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner
- July 25 - Sarah Geronimo, Fillipina pop singer
- August 2 - Brittany Hargest, American pop singer
- August 14 - Shahd Barmada, Arabian Idol contestant
- August 23 - Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
- August 27 - Alexa Vega, American pop singer
- August 31 - Megan McCauley, American pop singer
- September 16 - Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter
- September 22 - Bethany Dillon, American Christian music artist
- October 4 - Jessica Benson, American R&B singer
- October 11 - Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer
- October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese pop singer
- October 23 - Caleigh Peters, American pop singer
- October 24 - Cory Bold, American hip hop musician
- November 10 - Chisaki Hama, Japanese singer
- November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American singer/actress
- December 19 - Paulina Gretzky, American pop singer
- December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese pop singer
- December 30 - James Hall, British singer-songwriter
Deaths
- January 19 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
- February 14 - Frederic Loewe, composer of musicals
- February 27 - Gene De Paul, US pianist and composer
- March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, singer
- March 7 - Divine, singer
- March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
- April 9 - Brook Benton, complications of spinal meningitis.
- April 9 - Dave Prater, of Sam & Dave, car accident
- April 29 - James McCracken, tenor
- May 1 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
- May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, The Dubliners
- May 13 - Chet Baker, jazz musician
- May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr, vaudeville performer
- May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
- June 25, Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
- July 2 - Eddie Vinson, jazz/blues musician
- August 8 - Félix Leclerc, folk singer
- August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
- October 7 - Billy Daniels, US singer
- October 18 - Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer
- October 19, Son House, blues musician
- November 11 - William Ifor Jones, conductor
- November 13 - Antal Doráti, conductor
- November 26 - Antonio Estévez, composer
- December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
- December 6, Roy Orbison, singer
- December 20, Gaybreil Carson, model.singer/actor
Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremes
Charts
External links
- Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London revival
- Chess (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus) - Broadway production
- The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
- Sarafina Broadway production
Births
- January 14 - Jordy, French singer
- January 14 - Mikalah Gordon, American Idol contestant
- January 15 - Sonny Moore, American rock singer
- January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi, Fillipina pop singer
- February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese pop singer
- February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
- February 23 - Ashley Cooper, New Zealand pop singer
- February 27 - JD Natasha, American latin music artist
- February 29 - Milly Edwards, Australian Idol contestant
- March 2 - Nadine Samonte, German pop singer
- March 6 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish pop singer
- April 6 - Raymond David Henriksen, Norwegian singer
- April 24 - Natalie Zahra, Australian Idol contestant
- April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
- May 2 - Guilherme Rodrigues, Portuguese jazz musician
- May 2 - Brooke Hogan, American pop singer
- May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
- May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol winner
- May 24 - Billy Gilman, American country singer
- June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
- June 6 - Neha Kakkar, Indian pop singer
- June 12 - Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter
- June 16 - Keshia Chante, Canadian urban singer
- June 19 - Magdalena Diaków, Polish pop singer
- June 29 - Martina Šindlerová, Slovak pop singer
- July 2 - Amali Ward, Australian Idol contestant
- July 7 - Kaci Brown, American pop/R&B singer
- July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner
- July 25 - Sarah Geronimo, Fillipina pop singer
- August 2 - Brittany Hargest, American pop singer
- August 14 - Shahd Barmada, Arabian Idol contestant
- August 23 - Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
- August 27 - Alexa Vega, American pop singer
- August 31 - Megan McCauley, American pop singer
- September 16 - Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter
- September 22 - Bethany Dillon, American Christian music artist
- October 4 - Jessica Benson, American R&B singer
- October 11 - Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer
- October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese pop singer
- October 23 - Caleigh Peters, American pop singer
- October 24 - Cory Bold, American hip hop musician
- November 10 - Chisaki Hama, Japanese singer
- November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American singer/actress
- December 19 - Paulina Gretzky, American pop singer
- December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese pop singer
- December 30 - James Hall, British singer-songwriter
Deaths
- January 19 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
- February 14 - Frederic Loewe, composer of musicals
- February 27 - Gene De Paul, US pianist and composer
- March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, singer
- March 7 - Divine, singer
- March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
- April 9 - Brook Benton, complications of spinal meningitis.
- April 9 - Dave Prater, of Sam & Dave, car accident
- April 29 - James McCracken, tenor
- May 1 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
- May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, The Dubliners
- May 13 - Chet Baker, jazz musician
- May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr, vaudeville performer
- May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
- June 25, Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
- July 2 - Eddie Vinson, jazz/blues musician
- August 8 - Félix Leclerc, folk singer
- August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
- October 7 - Billy Daniels, US singer
- October 18 - Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer
- October 19, Son House, blues musician
- November 11 - William Ifor Jones, conductor
- November 13 - Antal Doráti, conductor
- November 26 - Antonio Estévez, composer
- December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
- December 6, Roy Orbison, singer
- December 20, Gaybreil Carson, model.singer/actor
Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremes
Charts
External links
Charts
External links
External links
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