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1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Published popular music
5 Classical music
6 Opera
7 Musical theater
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Awards
11 Charts
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Events

January 21 - MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze
February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident, resulting in several broken bones. Idol had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver Stone's film The Doors, but due to his injuries, the role was reduced down almost to a bit part.
February 8 - 55-year-old songwriter Del Shannon dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
February 14 - 50,000 fans watch The Rolling Stones play the first of 10 concerts at Tokyo's Korakuen Dome, the beginning of the Stones' first ever tour of Japan.
February 16 - Ike Turner is sentenced to 4 years in prison for possession of cocaine.
February 17 - Aerosmith appears in the Saturday Night Live sketch Wayne's World, where they perform the Wayne's World theme song.
February 24 - The Byrds (Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby) reunite, for the first time in 25 years, to perform at a Los Angeles, California tribute to Roy Orbison. The three are joined unexpectedly on stage by Bob Dylan, who sings "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the band.
February 27 - In Time Magazine, Milli Vanilli "singer" Rob Pilatus states that their group is, "more talented than any Bob Dylan or Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger can't produce a sound. I'm the new Elvis."
March 03 - Freedom To Party Demonstration London, organised by Party Promoters including Genesis'88 Biology parties Sunrise/Back to the Future for later club licences and all night Music and Dance Licences for large-scale Dance Parties Staged free-party later that night in Watford UK (12,000 people).

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March 20 - Gloria Estefan's tour bus is involved in an accident. Estefan suffers several broken bones in her back.
March 25 - Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee is arrested for allegedly exposing his backside during a performance in Augusta, Georgia
April 4 - Gloria Estefan returns to Miami, Florida after undergoing back surgery in March following a tour bus accident.
April 6 - Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee suffers a mild concussion after falling off of scaffolding above his elevated drum kit during a performance in New Haven, CT.
April 7 - Neil Young, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Guns N' Roses and Jackson Browne perform at Farm Aid IV in Indiana. John dedicates "Candle in the Wind" to AIDS patient Ryan White during his performance. White died later that evening
April 25 - Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster that he used to perform his famous version of the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, is auctioned off in London for $295,000
May 8 - In Los Angeles, California, Tom Waits wins a $2.5 million lawsuit against Frito-Lay for unlawfully using a sound alike of Waits in its Doritos television commercials.
May 26 - Gin Blossoms sign a contract with A&M Records
July 14 - Jean-Michel Jarre's concert Paris la Defense attracts 2.5 million spectators.
July 15 - Heavy D & the Boyz back-up singer Trouble T-Roy misjudges the edge of the stage following a show and falls to his death.
September - In the UK, two singles, "Groove is in the Heart" by Deee-Lite and "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band (featured in a current TV jeans commercial), are announced to have sold the same number of copies in one week and a tie-break is used to decide which should be number one. "The Joker" wins, as it had climbed the most from the previous week.
September 11 - After a decade of performing in the Francophone world, Céline Dion makes her formal English-language debut when she releases her album Unison.
October - Jamaaladeen Tacuma records Boss of the Bass, that will be a blockbuster in 1991
Fall - For the first time, Amy Grant and Gary Chapman hold a night of music at their Franklin, Tennessee Riverstone Farm, for local teenagers. Performers included Rich Mullins, Rick Elias, Charlie Peacock, Wes King and Michael W. Smith. The event becomes known as "The Loft".
November 27 - "Vocal" group Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know It's True." They later have their Grammy award revoked.
December - The Smashing Pumpkins begin recording Gish, which will be a blockbuster album in 1991
December 13 - Genesis'88 stage weekly Acid House night in legally acquired warehouse in Stratford, London under the banner imagine

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Dance music breaks out.
Madonna's "Justify My Love" music video is banned by MTV. The singer appears on Nightline to defend the video.
Pennywise signs a contract to their recent label Epitaph Records
The poorly received Cop Rock premieres on television, TV's first (and last) musical police drama.
Will Smith hits primetime television with the sitcom, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
Dalida virtualy receives the "Star Registry" awards with the International Diploma three years after her death in USA.
Ace of Base forms
Spin Doctors' begins performing
Pearl Jam's career begins
The Candyskins' career begins
Ricky Martin's career begins
The Prodigy's career begins
Mariah Carey's career begins
School of Fish's career begins
Ash forms
Blue Meanies forms
Leaders of the New School (including Busta Rhymes) forms
Letters To Cleo forms
Master Sound forms
Sun Dial forms
Vertical Horizon forms
Guadalcanal Diary disbands
The Vaselines disband
Garth Brooks releases his second album, "No Fences" and wins various awards across the music industry, including "best new country artist."
Del Amitri's second album, and first for five years, Waking Hours effectively relaunches their career. It provides them with the UK hit Nothing Ever Happens and the minor US hit Kiss This Thing Goodbye.
In Australia, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival is founded by Michael Easton and Len Vorster.
Sons of Kyuss changed their named to Kyuss, add new members except guitarist Josh Homme.
After a hiatus of 7 years and plenty of rumors, legendary rock group Styx (band) reform to record a new album and tour but without long time guitarist Tommy Shaw who was committed to Damn Yankees at the time. With his blessing, A&M recording artist Glen Burtnik joins Styx and release "Edge of The Century". The first single was Burnik's "Love Is The Ritual" which barely entered the Billboard 100. The follow-up single -- a religiously inspired ballad entitled "Show Me The Way" with Dennis DeYoung on vocals -- became a minor hit but then suddenly skyrocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard 100 after radio stations took the liberty and produced their own versions of the song featuring comments from Operation: Desert Storm soldiers during the solo break -- a move that reportedly didn't sit well with the band, who believed it unfairly politicized their music, the Christian religious faith, and the sacrifices of the troops.

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Albums released

Livin' Like Hustlers - Above the Law (debut)
The Razor's Edge - AC/DC
Albi Achikha - Ragheb Alama
Facelift - Alice in Chains
Enchanted - Marc Almond
Humanap Ka Ng Panget - Andrew E.
Never, Neverland - Annihilator
Persistence of Time - Anthrax
Piece of Time - Atheist (band)
Severed survival - Autopsy (band)
Holy Water - Bad Company
Against the Grain - Bad Religion
Thermos - Bailter Space
Two Fires - Jimmy Barnes
Music Extravaganza - Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister & The African International Music Ambassadors
Hammerheart - Bathory
The Law of Things - The Bats (band)
Riverside - Luka Bloom
Black Milk - The Beasts Of Bourbon
Choke - The Beautiful South
Maria Bethânia (25 anos) - Maria Bethânia
Victorious Against Personal Demons - Beyond
Megatop Phoenix - Big Audio Dynamite
You Lucky People - Big Pig
Biohazard - Biohazard (band)
Rabindra samgita - Debabrata Biswas
Gling-Gló - Björk
Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes
Highlights & Lowlives - Blue Cheer
Boomania - Betty Boo
JAPANESKA - The Boom
Ichabod and I - The Boo Radleys
New Funky Nation - Boo-Yaa TRIBE
Changesbowie (Greatest Hits) - David Bowie
The Internationale - Billy Bragg
One for All - Brand Nubian
No Fences - Garth Brooks
Dance!...Ya Know It! - Bobby Brown
The Sinking of the Titanic - Gavin Bryars
Dead City Radio(spoken word) - William S. Burroughs
Pump Action - The Butcher Shop
Keep On - Cabaret Voltaire (band)
Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C Music Factory
Eaten Back To Life - Cannibal Corpse
Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
101 Damnations - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Vanity/Nemesis - Celtic Frost
Dear Agnes - Carpenters collection - Agnes Chan
Waiting For You - Danny Chan
Freefall (ep) - Chapterhouse
Ezi Oyi Akama - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & his Nigerian Sound Makers International
Dreaming - Leslie Cheung
The Decomposition of Violets - Christian Death
Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church
In A Live - The Clean
Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Unnatural History - Coil (band)
Inside Out - Chick Corea Elektric Band
...But Seriously - Phil Collins
Consumer Revolt - Cop Shoot Cop
Plural - Gal Costa
Paradise Discotheque - Crime and the City Solution
Ritmo en el Corazon - Celia Cruz and Ray Barretto
Mixed Up - The Cure
Looney Runes - Current 93
Some Gave All - Billy Ray Cyrus
Pyst - Datblygu
Charlotte - Miles Davis
Spiritual Healing - Death
The Wall of Sacrifice - Death In June
Deicide - Deicide
The Flower That Shattered The Stone - John Denver
Violator - Depeche Mode
Tattooed Millionaire - Bruce Dickinson (debut solo album)
Every Brilliant Eye - Died Pretty
World Sinfonia - Al Di Meola
Unison - Céline Dion (English-language debut)
Fire In The Night - Dion DiMucci
Rising - Donovan
The Classics Live - Donovan
DAAS Icon - Doug Anthony All Stars
Blood Guts & Pussy - The Dwarves
The North At It's Heights - 808 State
Utd State 90 - 808 State
Dare To Be Different - Tommy Emmanuel
MCMXC a.D. - Enigma (debut)
Left Hand Path - Entombed
Distino di Belita - Cesária Évora
The Massacre - The Exploited
The Real Thing - Faith No More
The River - Ali Farka Toure
Chain Reaction - John Farnham
Firehouse - Firehouse
Brahms: Lieder - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Set The Booty Upright (ep) - Fishbone
Hispanic Causing Panic - Kid Frost
Repeater - Fugazi (band)
Cancer Planet Mission - Gaye Bykers on Acid
Anything is Possible - Debbie Gibson
Concierto en vivo con Pete Seeger - León Gieco
Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1989 - Dizzy Gillespie
I was the Hunter and I was the Prey - Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes
Without A Net - Grateful Dead
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours - Green Day
Slappy - Green Day
Pastoral Hide And Seek - The Gun Club
Allegria - Gypsy Kings
A Bag of Cats - The Hafler Trio
Dislocation - The Hafler Trio
Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
Brand New Dance - Emmylou Harris
Naked In Garden Hills - Harry Crews (band)
Brigade - Heart (band)
Strap It On - Helmet (band)
Shuffletown - Joe Henry
I'm Your Baby Tonight - Whitney Houston
Collected Works - Hunters & Collectors
Que Te Vaya Bien - Cheo Hurtado
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube
Iced Earth - Iced Earth (debut)
- Released in Europe only.
The best of Rhoma Irama - Rhoma Irama
Jaka Swara - Rhoma Irama
No Prayer for the Dying - Iron Maiden
Red Warrior - Ronald Shannon Jackson
Sudden Stop - Colin James
Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction
Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa - Keith Jarrett
Waiting for Cousteau - Jean-Michel Jarre
Live at Hammersmith '84 - Jethro Tull
- (A recording made in 1984 and released in 1990)
Neighbourhood Threat - Johnny Crash (one and only album)
Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Live at the Opera House - Kamahl
Yiyin Efendiler - Cem Karaca
Parakou - Angélique Kidjo
Door to Door - Albert King
Authority - King Sunny Ade & His New African Beats
Faith Hope Love - King's X
Chill Out - The KLF
Naive - KMFDM
I've Got That Old Feeling - Alison Krauss
Today Wonder - Ed Kuepper
Confusion Break Bones - Fela Kuti
ZIZS - Kalle Laar, Kazamaki Takashi
Two Worlds, One Heart - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Macbeth - Laibach (band)
The Last Temptation of Reid - Lard (band)
The La's - The La's
Rhythm of Love - Lava
Leningrad Cowboys Go America - Leningrad Cowboys
Leon - Leon Lai
Les Têtes Brulées - Les Têtes Brulées
Stinky Grooves - Limbomaniacs
Time's Up - Living Colour
Mamma Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Lust - Lords of Acid
A Ti Madrecita - Los Tigres del Norte
From a Scream to a Whisper - Lowlife
Wicked Sensation - Lynch Mob (band)
The Immaculate Collection - Madonna
Yo! - Francis Magalona
Southern Cross - Phil Manzanera
Tune In Tomorrow... The Original Soundtrack - Standard Time Vol. 3: The Resolution Of Romance - Wynton Marsalis
Como Un Juguete - Martika
Take A Look Around - Master Ace
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - MC Hammer
Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Pentagram - Mezarkabul
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
Love And Kisses - Dannii Minogue
Rhythm Of Love - Kylie Minogue
Apple - Mother Love Bone
Shiver - Jenny Morris
Cover Girl - Anita Mui
Deep - Peter Murphy
Glider (ep) - My Bloody Valentine
Confessions Of A Knife - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Aashiqui - Nadeem-Shravan
Yoru o Yuke - Miyuki Nakajima
Naugad - Nautilus Pompilius
Set - Youssou N'Dour
Brother's Keeper - The Neville Brothers
Step By Step (album) - New Kids On The Block
The Good Son - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Fun To Be Had - Nitzer Ebb
Unlimited Everything - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Caveat - Nuclear Death
Cause of Death - Obituary
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinéad O'Connor
Baghdad - The Offspring
Amarok - Mike Oldfield
Da Atlântida à Bahia... ... o Mar é o Caminho - Olodum
Cowboys from Hell - Pantera
Contribution - Mica Paris
Home For Christmas - Dolly Parton
Bossanova - Pixies
Wildcard/A Word From the Wise - Pennywise (compilation of their self-released EPs)
Shinamania - Sir Shina Peters
Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys
Gub - Pigface
Cure For Sanity - Pop Will Eat Itself
Frizzle Fry - Primus
Beyond Thee Infinite Beat - Psychic TV
Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
Goza Me Timbal - Tito Puente
Empire - Queensrÿche
Volume 2 - Reagan Youth
Play - Ride
Charcoal Road - Archie Roach
Love Is Strange - Kenny Rogers
Turned On - Rollins Band
Heart Still Beating - Roxy Music
Back From Hell - Run DMC
Chronicles - Rush
Blacks Magic - Salt-N-Pepa
Welcome to Love - Pharoah Sanders
Spirits Dancing In The Flesh - Carlos Santana
Here Comes Trouble - Scatterbrain
School of Fish - School of Fish (debut)
Scenic Roots - Seldom Scene
Intercourse - S'Express
Tales of Gil Scott Heron and his Amnesia Express - Gil Scott-Heron
My Romance - Carly Simon
Have You Seen Me Lately - Carly Simon
Vision Thing - The Sisters of Mercy
Fist Sized Chunks - Skin Yard
Too Dark Park - Skinny Puppy
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Stick It To Ya - Slaughter
World Power - Snap!
Goo - Sonic Youth
Back To The Coast - Nikki Sudden
Sons of Kyuss - Sons of Kyuss
- Originally recorded by Kyuss' original name of the same title.
Vol. II: 1990 - A New Decade - Soul II Soul
Louder Than Love - Soundgarden
Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To - Spacemen 3
Up for Grabs - Spin Doctors
Pesta Panen - Elvy Sukaesih
Other Way Out - Sun Dial (debut)
Edge Of The Century - Styx (band)
Superchunk - Superchunk (debut)
I'll Give All My Love To You - Keith Sweat
Live Au Zenith - Tabou Combo
Strange Things - Tackhead
Firmament - Alan Tam (Alan Tam Wing Lun)
Celebrated Blazons - Cecil Taylor
Ave Maria - Kiri Te Kanawa
Five Man Acoustical Jam - Tesla
Souls of Black - Testament
Flood - They Might Be Giants
Magic Music - Third Ear Band
New Inside - Tiffany
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
Tears of Civilisation - Paula Tsui
No Depression - Uncle Tupelo
Footprints - Jai Uttal
Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai
To the Extreme - Vanilla Ice
Family Style - The Vaughan Brothers
Nineteen 90 - Regine Velasquez
Tear Your Soul Apart - Venom
The Wonder - Tom Verlaine
Debacle: The First Decade - Violent Femmes
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Room To Roam - The Waterboys
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness - Ween
Wilson Phillips (album) - Wilson Phillips
Goodbye Jumbo - World Party
Wild Side Of The City Lights - Link Wray
Heart Over Mind - Tammy Wynette
Best of '81-'85 - Y&T
Ten - Y&T
If There Was a Way - Dwight Yoakam
Ragged Glory - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection – various artists
Nights Without Sleeping - Chaba Zahouania
Naked City - John Zorn
Look Into Me - Zoviet France

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Top hits on record

"Advice For The Young At Heart" - Tears For Fears
"All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love To You)" - Heart
"Better The Devil You Know" - Kylie Minogue
"Bird On A Wire" - The Neville Brothers
"Black Cat" - Janet Jackson
"Blaze of Glory" - Jon Bon Jovi
"Blue Savannah" - Erasure
"Blue Sky Mine" - Midnight Oil
"Chain Reaction - John Farnham
"Close to You" - Maxi Priest
"Crying In The Chapel" - Peter Blakeley
"Come Back to Me" - Janet Jackson
"Dangerous" - Roxette
"Downtown Train" - Rod Stewart
"Elephant Stone" - Stone Roses
"Enjoy the Silence" - Depeche Mode
"Epic" - Faith No More
"Escapade" - Janet Jackson
"Everybody Everybody" - Black Box
"Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" - The Blues Brothers
"Four Bacharach And David Songs (EP)" - Deacon Blue
"Friends In Low Places" - Garth Brooks
"Hard To Handle" - The Black Crowes
"Hello" - The Beloved
"Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Hold On" - En Vogue
"Hold On" - Wilson Philips
"I Go To Extremes" - Billy Joel
"I Wish It Would Rain Down" - Phil Collins
"Ice Ice Baby" - Vanilla Ice
"It Must Have Been Love" - Roxette
"I'll Be Your Shelter" - Taylor Dayne
"I'm Your Baby Tonight - Whitney Houston
"Janie's Got A Gun" - Aerosmith
"Jukebox In Siberia" - Skyhooks
"Just Like Jesse James" - Cher
"Justify My Love" - Madonna
"Killer" - Adamski feat. Seal
"Lay Down Your Guns" - Jimmy Barnes
"Listen To Your Heart" - Roxette
"Loaded" - Primal Scream
"Love And Kisses" - Dannii Minogue
"Love Takes Time" - Mariah Carey
"Love Shack" - The B-52's
"Love Will Lead You Back" - Taylor Dayne
"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor
"Opposites Attract" - Paula Abdul
"Poison" - Bell Biv Devoe
"Rhythm Nation" - Janet Jackson
"Right Here Right Now" - Jesus Jones
"Sacrifice / Healing hands" - Elton John
"She Ain't Worth It" - Glenn Medeiros feat. Bobby Brown
"Step Back in Time" - Kylie Minogue
"Suicide Blonde" - INXS
"Summer Rain" - Belinda Carlisle
"Tears On My Pillow" - Kylie Minogue
"That's Freedom" - John Farnham
"The Power" - Snap!
"Three Strange Days" - School of Fish (debut single)
"The Thunder Rolls" - Garth Brooks
"U Can't Touch This" - M.C. Hammer
"Unbelievable" - EMF (debut single)
"Vision of Love" - Mariah Carey
"Vogue" - Madonna
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" - The Beach Boys

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1990

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Published popular music

"Keep It Together" w.m. S. Bray & Madonna
"The Simpsons theme song" m. Danny Elfman

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Classical music

Mario Davidovsky - Biblical Songs for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Mario Davidovsky - Concertante for string quartet and orchestra
John Harbison - The Flight into Egypt (cantata)
Paul Lansky - Smalltalk
John Pickard - The Flight of Icarus
Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 1 Kamui-Chikap
John Zorn - The Dead Man