1994 in music

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See also: 1993 in music, other events of 1994, 1995 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son is killed in the accident.
• February 1 Dookie Green Day's first major label studio album debuts.
• February 7 - Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone
• February 14 - The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons
• February 23 - The ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the event.
• March 1 - Nirvana plays the band's final concert in Munich
• March 3 - In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after having an overdose of Rohypnol and champagne.
• March 5 - Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiberon, California home.
• March 18 - Courtney Love calls the police fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, was suicidal. Police confiscate 4 guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
• March 18 - Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones
• March 31 - Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines for her foul mouthed, profanity laced interview. Robin Williams later described the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
• April 8 - The dead body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death, which happened three days before, is legally declared a suicide.
• April 25 - Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November of 1993
• April 26 - The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco, California.
• April 26 - Grace Slick pleads guilty to pointing a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
• May 6 - Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business
• May 10 - Weezer releases their debut album. The self-titled "blue" album goes multiplatinum. Tupac Shakur begins serving 15-days in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
• June 7 - Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
• July - The Verbier Festival is launched.
• August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
• August 12 to August 14 - Woodstock '94
• September 8 - Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
• Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
• The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to record additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, Free As A Bird, is released as a single, reaching #2 in the UK, and evolves into the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project.

Albums released

• Age Ain't Nothing But A Number - Aaliyah
• The Sign - Ace of Base
• 75 Minutes - Acen
• Big Ones - Aerosmith (compilation)
• Box of Fire - Aerosmith (box set)
• Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
• Soul Fixin' Man - Luther Allison
• Tales From the Thousand Lakes - Amorphis
• Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin
• Zingalamaduni - Arrested Development (final album before disbanding)
• Russel's Shorts - Arrogant Worms
• Terminal Spirit Disease - At The Gates
• Incunabula - Autechre
• Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
• Rappin & Tappin - Derek Bailey
• Dupatta Tera Sat Rang Da - Surjit Bindrakhia
• Maybe You Should Drive - Barenaked Ladies
• Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
• Mellow Gold - Beck
• Stereopathetic Soulmanure - Beck
• One Foot in the Grave - Beck
• Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill
• Amorica - The Black Crowes
• My Life - Mary J. Blige
• Four - Blues Traveler
• ...For Victory - Bolt Thrower
• Crossroad - Bon Jovi
• Chocolate Synthesizer - The Boredoms
• Walk On - Boston
• II - Boyz II Men
• Brandy - Brandy
• The Hits - Garth Brooks
• Sixteen Stone - Bush
• Motorcade of Generosity - Cake
• The Bleeding - Cannibal Corpse
• Heartwork - Carcass
• Clasicos de la Provincia - Carlos Vives
• From the Cradle - Eric Clapton
• Both Sides - Phil Collins
• Resurrection - Common Sense
• O Sorriso do Gato de Alice - Gal Costa
• No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
• Worst Case Scenario - dEUS
• Balls to Picasso - Bruce Dickinson
• Out Of Range - Ani DiFranco
• Without a Sound - Dinosaur Jr.
• D.I. Go Pop - Disco Inferno
• Awake - Dream Theater
• Hell Freezes Over - The Eagles
• The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
• The Cross of Changes - Enigma
• I Say, I Say, I Say - Erasure
• Just Glü It - Glue Gun (as Glü Gun) (debut)
• House Of Love - Amy Grant
• Dookie - Green Day
• Friendly People - Guttermouth
• Live Through This - Hole
• Cracked Rear View - Hootie & the Blowfish (debut)
• Knysna Blue - Abdullah Ibrahim
• Laid - James
• 2 - Jerky Boys
• Grace - Jeff Buckley
• Diary of A Mad Band - Jodeci
• The Ringmaster - Insane Clown Posse
• The Great Subconscious Club - K's Choice
• Kerbdog - Kerbdog
• Gringo Honeymoon - Robert Earl Keen
• Dogman - King's X
• KoRn - KoRn
• (Welcome to) Sky Valley - Kyuss
• Hungry for Stink - L7
• Throwing Copper - Live
• Whip-Smart - Liz Phair
• Burn My Eyes - Machine Head
• Bedtime Stories - Madonna
• The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
• Portrait of an American Family - Marilyn Manson
• Under the Table and Dreaming-Dave Matthews Band
• Too High to Die - Meat Puppets
• Youthanasia - Megadeth
• Speak Squeak Creak - Melt-Banana
• Stoner Witch - Melvins
• Houdini - Melvins
• Musica de Rua - Daniela Mercury
• Athos - Stephan Micus
• Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
• 13 Above the Night - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
• Love Or Nothing - Miyuki Nakajima
• Illmatic - Nas
• Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
• MTV Unplugged in New York - Nirvana (the first release after Kurt Cobain's death)
• Screaming Dolorous - Nitocris
• Punk in Drublic - NOFX
• World Demise - Obituary
• Definitely Maybe - Oasis
• Smash - The Offspring
• Orthodox Celts - Orthodox Celts
• W.F.O. - Overkill
• No Quarter - Page & Plant
• Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
• Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
• Wildflowers - Tom Petty
• The Division Bell - Pink Floyd
• Dummy - Portishead (debut)
• Music for the Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
• Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age - Public Enemy
• Pulp Fiction - Soundtrack
• Monster - R.E.M.
• Rivermaya - Rivermaya
• Voodoo Lounge - Rolling Stones
• Weight - Rollins Band
• Black Hand Inn - Running Wild
• Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
• Scratch the Surface - Sick Of It All
• Letters Never Sent - Carly Simon
• Divine Intervention - Slayer
• Twice Removed - Sloan
• Souvlaki - Slowdive
• Pisces Iscariot - Smashing Pumpkins
• Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing
• Superunknown - Soundgarden
• Turn It Upside Down - Spin Doctors
• Foolish - Superchunk
• Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
• Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
• Dreamspace - Stratovarius
• Get Up On It - Keith Sweat
• How To Make Friends And Influence People - Terrorvision
• Bust a Nut - Tesla
• Low - Testament
• Troublegum - Therapy?
• John Henry - They Might Be Giants
• Live!! New York City 10/14/94 - They Might Be Giants
• Grassroots - 311
• Wildhoney - Tiamat
• CrazySexyCool - TLC
• Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket
• American Thighs - Veruca Salt
• New Times - Violent Femmes
• Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
• Weezer (Blue Album) - Weezer
• A Finest Fusion Of Black Tempo - Yellow Productions ( later Bob Sinclar )
• Creepin On Ah Come Up - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Top hits

• "90's Girl" - BlackGirl
• "All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
• "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
• "All That She Wants" - Ace of Base
• "Always" - Bon Jovi
• "Always" - Erasure
• "Amazing" - Aerosmith
• "Another Night" - M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy
• "Any Time, Any Place" - Janet Jackson
• "Backwater" - Meat Puppets
• "Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots
• "Better Man" - Pearl Jam
• "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
• "Born To Roll" - Masta Ace
• "Come Out And Play" - The Offspring
• "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam
• "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Crazy" - Aerosmith
• "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
• "Don't Turn Around" - Ace of Base
• "Everyday" - Phil Collins
• "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
• "Gin & Juice" - Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "I Alone" - Live
• "I Stay Away" - Alice in Chains
• "It Ain't Hard to Tell" - Nas
• "Let The Dream Come True" - DJ Bobo
• "Longview" - Green Day
• "Loser" - Beck
• "Love is Strong" - Rolling Stones
• "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
• "No Rain" - Blind Melon
• "Sabatoge" - Beastie Boys
• "Seether" - Veruca Salt
• "She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips
• "The Sign" - Ace of Base
• "Spoonman" - Soundgarden
• "The Man Who Sold The World" - Nirvana
• "The Red Strokes" - Garth Brooks
• "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• "Trouble" - Shampoo
• "Until I Fall Away" - Gin Blossoms
• "Without You" - Mariah Carey
• "You Want This" - Janet Jackson

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1994

• Thomas Beveridge - Yizkor Requiem
• George Crumb - Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
• Richard Danielpour - Cello Concerto
• Mario Davidovsky - Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
• Karl Jenkins - Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
• Oliver Knussen - Horn Concerto
• György Kurtág - Stele
• Tristan Murail - L'esprit des dunes
• Einojuhani Rautavaara - Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
• Boris Tishchenko - Symphony No. 7

• Giovanni Bertolani (orchestrated by Francesco Germini) - Matilde
• Vivian Fine - Memoirs of Uliana Rooney
• Adam Guettel - Floyd Collins

• Beauty and the Beast     Broadway production
• Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway revival
• Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) - Broadway revival
• Grease     Broadway revival
• Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) - Broadway revival
• Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production

• The Lion King     animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice
• That's Entertainment! III

Births

• Coco Gordon Moore
• Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
• April 4 - Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer

Deaths

• January 6 - Harold Sumberg, violinist
• January 15 - Harry Nilsson
• January 17 - Georges Cziffra, pianist
• February 7 - Witold Lutosławski, composer
• February 24 - Dinah Shore
• March 16 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
• March 22 - Dan Hartman
• March 23 - Donald Swann, pianist and entertainer
• ca. April 5 - Kurt Cobain
• June 14 - Henry Mancini
• June 15 - Manos Hadjidakis, composer
• June 29 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
• July 31 - Anne Shelton, British singer
• September 2 - Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer
• September 13 - John Stevens, jazz musician
• September 20 - Jule Styne
• September 29 - Cheb Hasni
• October 19 - Martha Raye
• October 22 - Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
• November 11 - Elizabeth Maconchy, composer

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Ruth Brown, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James, Van Morrison, and Sly and the Family Stone
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford

• Grammy Awards of 1994

• Eurovision Song Contest 1994

• Elegant Slumming - M People wins.

Charts

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1994

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1994

External Charts

• [Pop Culture Madness 1994 Music Chart]

 

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