1996 in music

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See also: 1995 in music, other events of 1996, 1997 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Events

• January 8 - Madonna's stalker, Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on 5 charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill her.
• January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
• January 18 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
• January 25 - Madonna receives death threats from Argentine conservatives who are enraged and insulted that she is playing Eva Peron in Evita. After she arrives in Argentina, over 50 walls throughout the city have been spray-painted with the words: Viva Evita! Fuera Madonna! (Long Live Evita! Get Out, Madonna!).
• January 28 - Chris Isaak makes a guest appearance on the television show Friends.
• January 29 - KISS reveals to the world that they are reunited with original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss with a surprise appearance on the American Music Awards. KISS steals the show when they take to the stage in full makeup and costume for the first time since 1980. The band takes to the road and becomes the highest grossing tour of 1996, selling out their first show at Tiger Stadium in 43 minutes.
• January 29 - Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist". Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
• February 4 - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
• February 14 - The Artist Formerly Known As Prince marries backup singer Mayte Garcia.
• February 20 - Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard are acquitted of first degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
• March 4 - The Beatles' second reunion song is released, as part of their first reunion since the band's breakup 26 years earlier. The song is simply a finished version of a John Lennon demo from 1980; a song called Real Love.
• March 13 - Ramones fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina after waiting all night for concert tickets only to find out that the show had been sold out.
• March 16 - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men ends its 16th consecutive week at No. 1 with "One Sweet Day". It is the longest consecutive week stay at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history.
• March 18 - The Sex Pistols announce that they are reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
• March 28 - Phil Collins announces that he is leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
• April 3 - M.C. Hammer files for bankruptcy.
• April 4 - The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges River in India.
• April 15 - The remaining part of Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
• April 16 - Madonna announces that she is 4-months pregnant by Carlos Leon, her boyfriend and trainer.
• April 24 - This Train, Rick Elias, Jimmy A, Phil Keaggy, Carolyn Arends, Third Day & Ashley Cleveland perform a tribute concert for Rich Mullins at Nashville's Cafe Milano. Speakers included Reunion Records executive Terry Hemmings, record producer Reed Arvin, disc jockey Jon Rivers, & author Brennan Manning.
• May - The Galway Early Music Festival is launched in Ireland.
• May 8 - In Los Angeles, California, a judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife actress Pamela Anderson Lee in their attempt to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie which was stolen from their home.
• May 25 - Brad Nowell lead singer of the band Sublime is found dead of a heroin overdose in his San Francisco motel room.
• June 21 - The Sex Pistols start their reunion tour in Lahtis, Finland.
• July - The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The other band members fire him because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
• July 11 - Robert Simpson's second string quintet premiered at the Cheltenham International Festival (by the Maggini Quartet with Pal Banda, cellist. [link]).
• August 1 - MTV2 makes its original launch.
• August 6 - The Ramones play their last ever show at Lollapalooza.
• Launch of the Proms in the Park event in London.
• September 7 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot 4 times in Las Vegas, Nevada while leaving the MGM Grand hotel, after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon boxing match, in what is apparently a drive-by shooting.
• September 12 - Controversy follows The Eagles when the band dedicates "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles.
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur died in hospital after his wounds from the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
• November 8 - After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film Hype!, a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences
• November 24 - Crowded House plays its final concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in front of an audience of almost 100,000. Proceeds from this concert support the Sydney Children's Hospital.
• December 7 - The Sex Pistols finish their reunion tour in Santiago, Chile.
• Sheryl Crow's self titled album is banned from Wal-Mart stores because of the lyric "Watch out sister, watch out brother/watch our children while they kill each other/with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart Discount Stores".
• Slash leaves Guns N' Roses, citing musical differences with singer Axl Rose, leaving Axl as the sole remaining original member of the band.
• The Monkees embark on their 30th Anniversary Reunion Tour
• Sum 41 forms, 41 days into the summer.
• All Systems Go! forms
• Chevelle forms
• Dashboard Confessional forms
• Linkin Park forms
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes forms
• Orgy forms
• The Spice Girls form and their career skyrockets with their debut album Spice and its lead single "Wannabe". They immediately become a success in the UK, but would have to wait until 1997 till they achieved fame in the U.S.
• Imperial Drag forms (from members of acclaimed alternative power-pop band Jellyfish)
• Sublime disbands (due to lead singer Brad Nowell's death)
• Coal Chamber's career begins
• Jay-Z's musical career begins
• Poison reunites
• Singer Tori Amos is sued when a man crashes his car after being distracted by a billboard advertising her album; the billboard featured a photo of Amos breastfeeding a piglet.
• David Bowie's single "Telling Lies" becomes the first song offered as a free digital download by a major record label (Virgin Records).
• The Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation forms.
• Arrested Development disband
• Take That disband
• Jawbreaker split.
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin split.
• The Pogues disband.
• Belly split.
• Heavenly disband after the suicide of drummer/songwriter Matthew Fletcher.
• Lush disband after the suicide of drummer Chris Acland.
• The Stone Roses split.

Albums released

• One in a Million - Aaliyah
• 18 Til I Die - Bryan Adams
• Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys
• Elegy - Amorphis
• Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
• Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
• Tidal - Fiona Apple (debut)
• 1977 - Ash
• Beats, Rhymes and Life - A Tribe Called Quest
• Actual Fantasy - Ayreon
• The Gray Race - Bad Religion
• The Beatles Anthology, volume 2 - The Beatles
• Odelay - Beck
• Perspective - Jason Becker
• If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
• Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
• Âmbar - Maria Bethânia
• Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
• Three Snakes & One Charm - The Black Crowes
• Nico - Blind Melon
• One Fierce Beer Coaster - The Bloodhound Gang
• Live from the Fall - Blues Traveler
• Rèv an Nou - Boukan Ginen
• Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
• Fashion Nugget - Cake
• Vile - Cannibal Corpse
• Swansong - Carcass
• First Band on the Moon - The Cardigans
• Here To Save You All - Chino XL
• Testing Positive - George Clinton (funk musician)
• Milk & Kisses - Cocteau Twins
• Dance Into the Light - Phil Collins
• The Final Tic - Crucial Conflict
• None So Vile - Cryptopsy
• Wild Mood Swings - The Cure
• À ma manière - Dalida (remix album)
• Crash - Dave Matthews Band
• Slang - Def Leppard
• In a Bar, Under the Sea - dEUS
• Skunkworks - Bruce Dickinson
• Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
• Sutras - Donovan
• Crimson - Edge of Sanity
• Death Threatz - MC Eiht
• Beat The Bastards - The Exploited
• Face to Face - Face to Face (punk band)
• Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim.
• Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
• Gabrielle - Gabrielle
• Cat's Clause - The Germs
• The Scene Is Not for Sale - Glue Gun (final album before disbanding)
• Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills (debut)
• One Stop Carnival - Brian Green
• Frozen - Gridlock
• Afterlife - The Godfathers
• Teri Yakimoto - Guttermouth
• Fairweather Johnson - Hootie & the Blowfish
• The Dark Saga - Iced Earth
• Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag
• Jerky Boys 3 - Jerky Boys
• Paradise in Me - K's Choice
• Pale Yo - Kanpech
• No. 2 LIVE Dinner - Robert Earl Keen
• Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat
• Life Is Peachy - KoЯn
• KRS-One - KRS-One
• Victor - Alex Lifeson
• As Good as Dead - Local H
• Fever In Fever Out - Luscious Jackson
• Evita - Madonna (soundtrack)
• Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
• Louder Than Hell - Manowar
• Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
• Pussy, King of the Pirates - Mekons with Kathy Acker
• Load - Metallica
• Breathe - Midnight Oil
• Justus - The Monkees
• Irreligious - Moonspell
• Overnight Sensation - Motörhead
• High/Low - Nada Surf
• Man - Neneh Cherry
• Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder (debut)
• Murder Ballads - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Curb - Nickelback
• Hesher - Nickelback
• Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle - The Olivia Tremor Control
• Dynamite - Stina Nordenstam
• All We Got Iz Us - Onyx
• ATLiens - Outkast
• The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera
• No Code - Pearl Jam
• Bilingual - Pet Shop Boys
• Signify - Porcupine Tree
• Good God's Urge - Porno for Pyros
• Rocket - Primitive Radio Gods
• Emancipation - Prince (3-disc box set)
• Aïbobo - RAM
• Off Parole - Rappin' 4-Tay
• Republica - Republica
• Greatest Hits - Poison
• Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
• Soul On Ice - Ras Kass
• Turn the Radio Off - Reel Big Fish
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi - R.E.M.
• Da Villain in Black - MC Ren
• Illadelph Halflife - The Roots
• Test for Echo - Rush
• Roots - Sepultura
• K - Kula Shaker
• Pies Descalzos - Shakira
• Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
• Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney
• One Chord to Another - Sloan
• The Process - Skinny Puppy
• Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps (debut)
• Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg
• White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Social Distortion
• Irresistible Bliss - Soul Coughing
• Down on the Upside - Soundgarden (final album before disbanding)
• Resident Alien - Spacehog
• ''Spice - Spice Girls
• Wax Ecstatic - Sponge
• Tormented - Staind
• Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
• Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
• Episode - Stratovarius
• Sublime - Sublime (final album, released just 2 months after frontman Brad Nowell's death)
• Live Drug - Sun Dial
• Regretfully Yours - Superdrag
• Soundtracks for the Blind - Swans
• Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants
• 311 - 311
• Lemon Parade - Tonic
• Ænima - Tool
• ''Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise
• All Eyez on Me - 2Pac
• Supercharged Straight to Hell - The Turbo AC's
• Garibaldi Guard! - US Bombs
• Best of, Volume 1 - Van Halen
• Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
• Rock!!!!! - Violent Femmes
• Bringing Down The Horse - The Wallflowers
• Pinkerton - Weezer
• Bad Hair Day - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Bow Down - Westside Connection
• At the Speed of Life - Xzibit

Top hits

• One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
• "Always Be My Baby" - Mariah Carey
• "Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden
• "Novocaine for the Soul" - Eels
• "Tha Crossroads" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony won a grammy for best rap song in 1997, topped #1 in the billboard pop charts for 9 weeks, and tied the Beatles' 32 year-old record for fastest-rising single.
• "Change the World" - Eric Clapton, written by Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy and Tommy Sims, won a Grammy award for song of the year in 1997
• "Charmless Man" - Blur
• "Free As A Bird" - The Beatles
• "La Mamma" - Dalida (inédit)
• "Là-bas dans le noir" - Dalida (remix)
• "Darla Dirladada" - Dalida (remix)
• "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai
• "Vapors" - Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "Don't Look Back in Anger" - Oasis
• "California Love" - Tupac Shakur / Dr. Dre
• "Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson
• "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" - Madonna
• "You Must Love Me" - Madonna
• "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" - Madonna
• "Until It Sleeps" - Metallica
• "King Nothing" - Metallica
• "Hero Of The Day" - Metallica
• "Mama Said" - Metallica
• "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods
• "Tahitian Moon" - Porno for Pyros
• "Guilty" - Gravity Kills
• "Is It a Crime" - Sade
• "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
• "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
• "If You Could Only See" - Tonic
• "What I Got" - Sublime
• "How Do U Want It" - 2Pac
• "6th Avenue Heartache" - The Wallflowers
• "One Headlight" - The Wallflowers
• "If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow
• "Aeroplane" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Zero" - The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman
• "People of the Sun" - Rage Against the Machine
• "Macarena" - Los Del Rio
• "The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson
• "Wash Away" - Vertical Horizon
• "All Mixed Up" - 311
• "Head Over Feet" - Alanis Morissette
• "You Learn" - Alanis Morissette
• "Ironic" - Alanis Morissette
• "Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette
• "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
• "Down" - 311
• "Stupid Girl" - Garbage
• "Can't Get You Off My Mind" - Lenny Kravitz
• "I Want To Come Over" - Melissa Etheridge
• "Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" - Tori Amos
• "I'll Stick Around" - Foo Fighters
• "Big Me" - Foo Fighters
• "Where it's at" - Beck
• "Motel California" - Ugly Kid Joe
• "Children" - Robert Miles
• "My Boo" - Ghost Town DJ's
• "Un-Break My Heart" - Toni Braxton

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1996

• Elliott Carter - Clarinet Concerto
• Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto No. 2 for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello
• Joël-François Durand - Les raisons des forces mouvantes for organ
• Alexander Goehr - Viola concerto
• Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann - Homage a Nelson Mandela
• John Pickard - Symphony no 3
• Wolfgang Rihm - Deus Passus (oratorio)
• Juan Maria Solare - Diez Estudios Escénicos

• Peter Maxwell Davies - The Doctor of Myddfai
• Daron Hagen - Vera of Las Vegas

• Chicago (Kander and Ebb) - Broadway revival
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway revival
• I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change     off-Broadway production
• The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway revival
• Once Upon a Mattress- Broadway revival
• Rent (Jonathan Larson) - Broadway production (originally off-Broadway}
• State Fair     Broadway production

• Everyone Says I Love You
• Evita
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame     animated feature
• James and the Giant Peach     animated feature

Births

• October 14 - Lourdes Ciccone, daughter of Madonna and Carlos Leon.

Deaths

• January 25 - Jonathan Larson, composer
• February 7 - Boris Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1925)
• February 17 - Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress and singer
• February 20 - Toru Takemitsu, composer
• February 26 - Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (b. 1919)
• March 4 - Minnie Pearl (84)
• March 15 - Olga Rudge (101), violinist
• March 22 - Don Murray, The Turtles
• April 18 - Bernard Edwards, CHIC, pneumonia
• May 8 - Celedonio Romero, leader of the Romeros guitar quartet,
• May 17 - Kevin Gilbert, Songwriter Toy Matinee, Tuesday Night Music Club, Engineer
• May 25 - Brad Nowell, lead singer and guitarist for Sublime
• June 15 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
• July 16 - John Panozzo, 48, drummer for Styx and brother of Chuck Panozzo
• July 17 - Marcel Dadi 45, French country and western guitarist died in crash of TWA flight 800
• July 29 - Jason Thirsk, Pennywise bassist
• August 13 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
• August 14 - Sergiu Celibidache, orchestral conductor
• August 23 - Jurriaan Andriessen, Danish composer
• September 1 - Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor
• November 30 - Tiny Tim, musician
• December 29 - Mireille, French singer

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground

• Grammy Awards of 1996

• Eurovision Song Contest 1996

• Different Class - Pulp wins.

Charts

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1996

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1996

External Charts

• [Pop Culture Madness 1996 Music Chart]

 

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