1994 in music
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2 Albums released 3 Top hits 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards |
Events
- January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hit a freeway median and flipped over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son was killed in the accident.
- 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 3 - In Italy, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after taking a combination of valium and champagne. Cobain would die on April 5.
- 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. Cobain would kill himself on April 5.
- 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 5 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, commits 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 - 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.
- August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogota, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciuda Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
- 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.
- Ludacris moves to college
- Woodstock '94
- The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to record additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, with Jeff Lynne producing.
Albums released
- Tales From the Thousand Lakes - Amorphis
- Selected Ambient Works 2 - Aphex Twin
- Incunabula - Autechre
- Mellow Gold - Beck
- Stereopathetic Soul Manure - Beck
- One Foot in the Grave - Beck
- Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill
- Amorica - The Black Crowes
- Crossroad - Bon Jovi
- Walk On - Boston
- Motorcade of Generosity - Cake
- The Bleeding - Cannibal Corpse
- Heartwork - Carcass
- Both Sides - Phil Collins
- Out Of Range - Ani DiFranco
- Awake - Dream Theater
- ''Hell Freezes Over - The Eagles
- The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
- Dookie - Green Day
- Friendly People - Guttermouth
- Live Through This - Hole
- 2 - Jerky Boys
- Grace -- Jeff Buckley
- Diary of A Mad Band - Jodeci
- Kerbdog - Kerbdog
- Dogman - King's X
- (Welcome to) Sky Valley - Kyuss
- Burn My Eyes - Machine head
- Youthanasia - Megadeth
- Athos - Stephan Micus
- Illmatic - Nas
- Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
- MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
- World Demise - Obituary
- Definitely Maybe - Oasis
- Smash - The Offspring
- W.F.O - Overkill
- No Quarter - Page and Plant
- Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
- Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
- Dummy - Portishead (debut)
- Monster - R.E.M
- Weight - Rollins Band
- Black Hand Inn - Running Wild
- Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
- Divine Intervention - Slayer
- Spiderland - Slint
- Twice Removed - Sloan
- Souvlaki - Slowdive
- Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing
- Superunknown - Soundgarden
- Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
- Dreamspace - Stratovarius
- Get Up On It - Keith Sweat
- Bust a Nut - Tesla
- Low - Testament
- Live!! New York City 10/14/94 - They Might Be Giants
- Wildhoney - Tiamat
- Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
- Weezer (1994) - Weezer
- Orthodox Celts - Orthodox Celts
- CrazySexyCool - TLC
Top hits
- "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
- "Loser" - Beck
- "Everyday" - Phil Collins
- "Come Out And Play" - The Offspring
- "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
- "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
- "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
- "Without You" - Mariah Carey
- "All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
- "Until I Fall Away" - Gin Blossoms
- "Longview" - Green Day
- "Waterfalls" - TLC
Musical theater
- Beauty and the Beast Broadway production
- Carousel Broadway revival
- Damn Yankees Broadway revival
- Grease Broadway revival
- Show Boat Broadway revival
- Sunset Boulevard Broadway production
Musical films
- The Lion King animated feature film
- That's Entertainment III
Births
Deaths
- January 15 - Harry Nilsson
- February 24 - Dinah Shore
- March 22 - Dan Hartman
- April 5 - Kurt Cobain
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
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
Mercury Music Prize
- Elegant Slumming - M People wins.