1994 in music (original) (raw)

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

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
Both Sides - Phil Collins
Out Of Range - Ani DiFranco
The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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
Youthanasia - Megadeth
Illmatic - Nas
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Smash - The Offspring
No Quarter - Page and Plant
Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Dummy - Portishead (debut)
Monster - R.E.M
Weight - Rollins Band
Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
Spiderland - Slint
Twice Removed - Sloan
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
Weezer (1994) - Weezer
Orthodox Celts - Orthodox Celts

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

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, heart disease
March 22 - Dan Hartman, brain tumor
April 5 - Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, killed himself.

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