1988 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.

Events

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• January 3 - The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, California, USA, is broadcast.
• February 13 - Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California, USA. He calls his new home "Neverland".
• February 16 - Billy Vera receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
• February 17 - A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida, USA, is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's Live Wire music video. Mötley Crüe issue a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.^{[citation needed]}
• February 24 - Alice Cooper announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona, USA.
• March 10 - During a concert in Perth, Western Australia, George Michael thanks Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Music Resource Center, for helping the sales of his Faith album.^{[citation needed]}
• March 12 - Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of US$5 million, which is raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
• March 13 - The 77s, House of Freaks and The Alarm perform at Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, USA. Neil Young is in attendance.^{[citation needed]}
• April 19 - Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California, USA.
• April 30 - The Eurovision Song Contest, held in the RDS Simmonscourt Pavilion, Dublin, is won by French-Canadian singer Celine Dion, representing Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi".
• May 1 - Citing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy magazine in which he called Powers a "creep".^{[citation needed]}
• June 18 - Depeche Mode's final concert of their world tour takes place in the Rose Bowl stadium near Los-Angeles with 80 000 spectators which is the significant moment in the bands career.
• July 1 - Quartetto Cetra play their last concert.
• August 20 - Two people are crushed to death at the annual Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, UK. during the Guns N' Roses set.
• August 28 - While travelling down the Ventura Freeway in southern California, USA, the motorhome carrying the Charlie Daniels band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
• September 10 - Billboard magazine publishes its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for the first time.
• October 10 - Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in the UK.
• November - The "Guess The Eddies" contest begins, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies.
• November 24 - Keith Richards and The X-Pensive Winos open their U.S. tour in Atlanta, Georgia.^{[citation needed]}
• December 4 - Singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio, USA, before his death from a massive heart attack.
• December 28 - A few days before the release of her new album Like A Prayer, Madonna files assault charges against her husband, Sean Penn. Though she later drops the charges, the couple separate three days later and are divorced in the following year.
• December 31 - Genesis'88 & Sunrise/Back to the Future stage the biggest acid house party in the world in a warehouse in Hackney, London, UK, with 5,000 people attending.^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.^[1]
• Andrew Davis becomes musical director of Glyndebourne.
• Acid house music sweeps the UK. The year would later be known as the "Second Summer of Love".
• Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity in the USA sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at number 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
• Fish leaves British neo-progressive rock group Marillion.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1988

Bands disbanded

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• Big Black
• Boøwy
• The Cars
• The Communards
• The Damned (reform in 1993)
• Dokken
• Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) (reform in 2000)
• Face to Face
• Heaven 17
• The Housemartins
• Lords of the New Church
• Models (reform in 2000)
• Reagan Youth (reform in 2006)
• The Sound
• Supertramp
• Til Tuesday

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• Sketsa Rembulan Emas - Ebiet G. Ade
• 47 Song Demo - Anal Cunt
• STP Not LSD - Angry Samoans
• Pound For Pound - Anvil
• 69 - A R Kane
• Sinta - Asin
• Live - Bad Brains
• The Light - Afrika Bambaataa & Family
• Sour Mash - Beasts of Bourbon
• The Chess Box - Chuck Berry (compilation)
• Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers (compilation)
• I Used to Be an Animal - Eric Burdon
• You've Always Got the Blues - Kate Ceberano
• My Nation Underground - Julian Cope
• Earth Covers Earth - Current 93
• Swastikas for Noddy - Current 93
• What Good Is Grief to a God? - D.I.
• Wyau - Datblygu
• Leprosy - Death
• Rough Night in Jericho - Dreams So Real
• The Dubliner's Dublin - The Dubliners
• Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
• Only Life - The Feelies
• Train Above the City - Felt
• Streets of This Town - Frehley's Comet
• Second Sighting - Steve Forbert
• Front by Front - Front 242
• Convergence - Front Line Assembly
• Corrosion - Front Line Assembly
• Disorder - Front Line Assembly
• You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galás
• Today - Galaxie 500
• Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
• Hell-O - GWAR
• Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm
• Young Man Running - Corey Hart
• The Xenon Codex - Hawkwind
• Sam & Friends - Sam Hui
• Tucker - Joe Jackson (OST)
• Colin James - Colin James
• Straight out the Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
• In the Spirit of Things - Kansas
• The Live Album - Robert Earl Keen
• Outside the Gate - Killing Joke
• "Them" - King Diamond
• King Kobra III - King Kobra
• Lucille - Little Richard
• Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
• Chobba B C.C.C.P. - Paul McCartney (limited release)
• El Mundo - Mitsou
• Read All About It - Newsboys
• Soliloquy for Lilith - Nurse With Wound
• Power Metal - Pantera
• The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
• North and South - Gerry Rafferty
• Nothing Exceeds Like Excess - Raven
• New Light Through Old Windows - Chris Rea
• Nothing Wrong - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• O Melancolía - Silvio Rodríguez
• Hit Me With The Surreal Feel - Kim Salmon And The Surrealists
• Volunteer - Sham 69
• Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard
• Prison Bound - Social Distortion
• The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes - Thompson Twins
• Prostitute - Toyah
• Against the Flow - Upper Hutt Posse
• A Classic Guide To No Man's Land - Various Artists
• Let It Bee - Voice of the Beehive
• The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
• Fur - Jane Wiedlin
• Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
• E Tü - Upper Hutt Posse
• Flag - Yello
• Golden Tops The Zorros
• Total Devo - Devo

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1988.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Phil Collins	A Groovy Kind of Love	1988		UK 1 - Sep 1988, US BB 1 - Sep 1988, Holland 1 - Sep 1988, Switzerland 1 - Oct 1988, Poland 1 - Sep 1988, Éire 1 - Sep 1988, Norway 2 - Sep 1988, Italy 2 of 1988, Germany 3 - Jan 1989, Sweden 4 - Sep 1988, Austria 6 - Nov 1988, South Africa 11 of 1989, Australia 23 of 1988, US BB 26 of 1988, US CashBox 29 of 1988, POP 65 of 1988, Germany 103 of the 1980s, RYM 193 of 1988
2	Bobby McFerrin	Don't Worry Be Happy	1988		US BB 1 - Aug 1988, Austria 1 - Nov 1988, Germany 1 - Jan 1989, Australia 1 for 7 weeks May 1989, Grammy in 1988, UK 2 - Sep 1988, Holland 2 - Oct 1988, Switzerland 2 - Oct 1988, Norway 5 - Oct 1988, South Africa 5 of 1989, Sweden 13 - Oct 1988, Poland 13 - Sep 1988, POP 13 of 1988, Germany 23 of the 1980s, US CashBox 28 of 1988, Scrobulate 92 of happy, RYM 94 of 1988, Italy 97 of 1989, RIAA 301
3	Belinda Carlisle	Heaven is a Place On Earth	1988		UK 1 - Dec 1987, US BB 1 - Oct 1987, Sweden 1 - Jan 1988, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1988, Norway 1 - Jan 1988, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1988, Germany 4 - Jan 1988, South Africa 4 of 1988, Holland 7 - Jan 1988, Austria 10 - Mar 1988, Australia 10 of 1988, Poland 15 - Nov 1987, US BB 17 of 1987, Italy 31 of 1988, RYM 53 of 1987, POP 72 of 1987, Germany 344 of the 1980s
4	U2	Desire	1988		UK 1 - Oct 1988, Poland 1 - Oct 1988, Éire 1 - Sep 1988, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks Oct 1988, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Apr 1989, Holland 2 - Sep 1988, US BB 3 - Oct 1988, KROQ 4 of 1988, Norway 5 - Oct 1988, Switzerland 9 - Oct 1988, Italy 10 of 1988, Germany 11 - Oct 1988, Sweden 12 - Oct 1988, Austria 23 - Nov 1988, RYM 65 of 1988, Acclaimed 2038
5	Enya	Orinoco Flow	1988		UK 1 - Oct 1988, Holland 1 - Nov 1988, Switzerland 1 - Nov 1988, Éire 1 - Oct 1988, Scrobulate 1 of new age, Poland 2 - Dec 1988, Germany 2 - Jan 1989, Sweden 3 - Nov 1988, Norway 5 - Nov 1988, Austria 8 - Dec 1988, France 9 - Oct 1988, RYM 18 of 1988, US BB 24 - Mar 1989, POP 34 of 1989, Germany 242 of the 1980s

U.S. Best Selling Singles

The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in the U.S. of 1988.

Top 5 selling albums of the year in the US

1. George Michael - Faith
2. Soundtrack - Dirty Dancing
3. Def Leppard - Hysteria
4. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Michael Jackson - Bad

Top hits

• "1-2-3" - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
• "A Little Respect" - Erasure
• "Acid Man" - Jolly Roger
• "Age Of Reason" - John Farnham
• "All Fired Up" - Pat Benatar
• "Angel of Harlem" - U2
• "Angel" - Aerosmith (released in 1987)
• "Another Lover" - Giant Steps
• "Any Love" - Luther Vandross
• "Another Weekend" - Five Star
• "Anything For You" - Gloria Estefan
• "Atmosphere" - Joy Division (re-release)
• "Bad Medicine" - Bon Jovi
• "Bass (How Low Can You Go)" - Simon Harris
• "Bad Young Brother" - Derek B
• "Beat Dis" - Bomb The Bass
• "Behind the Wheel" - Depeche Mode (released in 1987)
• "Better Be Home Soon" - Crowded House
• "Big Fun" - Inner City
• "Blue Monday 1988" - New Order (remix)
• "Born to Be My Baby" - Bon Jovi
• "Boys (Summertime Love)" - Sabrina Salerno (released in 1987)
• "Breakfast in Bed" - UB40 featuring Chrissie Hynde
• "Bring the Noise" - Public Enemy
• "Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
• "Burn It Up" - Beatmasters featuring PP Arnold
• "Car Wash/Is It Love You're After" - Rose Royce (re-release)
• "Cars And Girls - Prefab Sprout
• "Can You Party" - Royal House
• "Chains of Love" - Erasure
• "Check This Out" - LA Mix
• "Circle in the Sand" - Belinda Carlisle (released in 1987)
• "Come Into My Life" - Joyce Sims (released in 1987)
• "Copperhead Road" - Steve Earle
• "Crash" - The Primitives
• "Cross My Heart" - Eighth Wonder
• "Cult of Personality" - Living Colour
• "Desire" - U2
• "Devil Inside" - INXS
• "Dignity" - Deacon Blue
• "Dirty Diana" - Michael Jackson
• "Divine Emotions" - Narada Michael Walden
• "Doctorin the House" - Coldcut featuring Yazz and the Plastic Population
• "Doctorin the Tardis - The Timelords
• "Domino Dancing" - Pet Shop Boys
• "Don't Believe the Hype" - Public Enemy
• "Don't Blame It on That Girl / Wap-Bam-Boogie" - Matt Bianco
• "Don't Make Me Wait/Megablast" - Bomb The Bass
• "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
• "Dreaming" - OMD
• "Drop The Boy" - Bros
• "Endless Summer Nights" - Richard Marx
• "Everlasting" - Natalie Cole
• "Everyday Is Like Sunday" - Morrissey
• "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
• "Everything Your Heart Desires" - Hall & Oates
• "Express Yourself" - N.W.A. (relased in 1990 in the UK)
• "Fake 88" - Alexander O'Neal (remix)
• "Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
• "Fiesta" - Pogues
• "Fine Time" - New Order
• "First Time" - Robin Beck
• "Follow the Leader" - Eric B. & Rakim
• "Foolish Beat" - Debbie Gibson
• "Forever Young" - Rod Stewart
• "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" - Billy Ocean
• "Girlfriend" - Pebbles (released in 1987)
• "Give Me The Reason" - Luther Vandross
• "Giving You the Best That I Got" - Anita Baker
• "Got My Mind Set on You" - George Harrison (relased in 1987)
• "Goodgroove" - Derek B
• "Good Life" - Inner City
• "Good Tradition" - Tanita Tikaram
• "Hands to Heaven" - Breathe
• "Happy Ever After" - Julia Fordham
• "Heart" - Pet Shop Boys
• "Heat It Up" - Wee Papa Girl Rappers featuring Two Men & A Drum Machine
• "Heatseeker" - AC/DC
• "Heaven is a Place on Earth" - Belinda Carlisle (released in 1987)
• "Hey Manhattan!" - Prefab Sprout
• "Hold On to the Nights" - Richard Marx
• "Hole In My Heart" - Cyndi Lauper
• "House Arrest (The Beat Is Law)" - Krush (released in 1987)
• "Hustle! (To the Music...)" - The Funky Worm
• "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" - Elton John
• "I Don't Want to Live Without You" - Foreigner
• "I Don't Want to Talk About It" - Everything but the Girl
• "I Gave It Up (When I Fell In Love)" - Luther Vandross
• "I Get Weak" - Belinda Carlisle (released in 1987)
• "I Know You Got Soul" - Eric B. & Rakim
• "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• "I Owe You Nothing" - Bros
• "I Need You" - BVSMP
• "I Saw Him Standing There - Tiffany
• "I Should Be So Lucky" - Kylie Minogue
• "I Want You Back" - Bananarama
• "I Want Your Love" - Transvision Vamp
• "I'll Be There for You" - Bon Jovi
• "I'll Be With You" - T'Pau
• "I'll House You" - Richie Rich meets The Jungle Brothers
• "I'm Not Scared" - Eighth Wonder
• "I'm Real" - James Brown featuring Full Force
• "I'm Too Scared" - Steven Dante
• "Im Nin'Alu" - Ofra Haza
• "In My Dreams" - Will Downing
• "In The Air Tonight" - Phil Collins (remix)
• "Is This Love" - Whitesnake
• "It Must Have Been Love" - Magnum
• "It Takes Two" - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
• "Jack To The Sound Of The Underground" - Hithouse
• "Joe le Taxi" - Vanessa Paradis (released in 1987)
• "John Skero Goes West" - John Skero
• "Johnny B. Goode" - Judas Priest
• "Jour de neige" - Elsa Lunghini
• "Just like Paradise" - David Lee Roth
• "Kokomo" - The Beach Boys
• "Lead Me On" - Amy Grant
• "Left to My Own Devices" - Pet Shop Boys
• "Look Away" - Chicago
• "Love Bites" - Def Leppard (released in 1987)
• "Love Changes (Everything)" - Climie Fisher (remix/released in 1987)
• "Lucretia My Reflection" - Sisters of Mercy
• "Make It Real" - The Jets
• "Make Me Lose Control" - Eric Carmen
• "Mary's Prayer" - Danny Wilson (released in 1987)
• "Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
• "Maybe (We Should Call It A Day)" - Hazel Dean
• "Mercedes Boy" - Pebbles
• "Monkey" - George Michael
• "Moonchild" - Fields of the Nephilim
• "Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction
• "Mystify" - INXS (released 1989 in the UK)
• "Need You Tonight" - INXS (relased in 1987)
• "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley (released in 1987)
• "Never Knew Love Like This" - Alexander O'Neal
• "Never Tear Us Apart" - INXS
• "New Sensation" - INXS
• "Nothing But A Good Time" - Poison
• "Nothing Can Divide Us" - Jason Donovan
• "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" - Glenn Medeiros
• "Nuit de folie" - Début de Soirée
• "On the edge of a broken heart" - Vixen
• "One More Try" - George Michael
• "One" - Metallica
• "Orange Crush" - R.E.M. (released 1989 in the UK)
• "Orinoco Flow" - Enya
• "Paradise" - Sade
• "Paradise City" -Guns N' Roses
• "Parents Just Don't Understand" - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• "The Payback Mix" - James Brown
• "People Are Strange" - Echo & the Bunnymen
• "People Have the Power" – Patti Smith
• "Piano in the Dark" - Brenda Russell
• "Pink Cadillac" - Natalie Cole
• "Pour Some Sugar on Me" - Def Leppard (released in 1987)
• "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" - Mylène Farmer
• "Push It/Tramp" - Salt-N-Pepa
• "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" - Annie Lennox & Al Green
• "Quelque chose dans mon cœur" - Elsa Lunghini
• "Quelque part au Soleil" - Dalida (inédit)
• "Rag Doll" - Aerosmith
• "Real Gone Kid" - Deacon Blue
• "Revolution Baby" - Transvision Vamp
• "Rise To The Occasion (Hip Hop Mix)" - Climie Fisher (remix/released in 1987)
• "Rok Da House" - The Beatmasters featuring The Cookie Crew (remix/released in 1987)
• "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
• "Roses Are Red" - Mac Band featuring McCampbell Brothers
• "Run's House" - Run-D.M.C.
• "Saved By Love" - Amy Grant
• "I Say a Little Prayer" - Bomb The Bass
• "Seasons Change" - Exposé
• "Shaday" - Ofra Haza
• "Shake Your Thang (It's Your Thing)" - Salt-N-Pepa featuring E.U.
• "Ship Of Fools" - Erasure
• "Sidewalking" - The Jesus and Mary Chain
• "Sign Your Name" - Terence Trent D'Arby (released in 1987)
• "Simply Irresistible" - Robert Palmer
• "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
• "So Excellent / I Go! I Go!" - Kylie Mole
• "Stakker Humanoid" - Humanoid
• "Stand" - R.E.M.
• "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" - Yazz
• "Stay on These Roads" - a-ha
• "Stop!" - Erasure
• "Stop This Crazy Thing" - Coldcut featuring Junior Reid & The Ahead Of Our Time Orchestra
• "Straight Outta Compton" - N.W.A.
• "Stutter Rap ( No Sleep 'Til Bedtime )" - Morris Minor and the Majors
• "Superfly Guy" - S-Express
• "Suedehead" - Morrissey
• "Superstitious" - Europe
• "Sweet Child o' Mine" - Guns N' Roses (released in 1987)
• "Tell It to My Heart" - Taylor Dayne (released in 1987)
• "That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll" - AC/DC
• "The Blood That Moves The Body" - a-ha
• "The Jack That House Built" - Jack 'N' Chill (released in 1987)
• "The King Of Rock 'N' Roll - Prefab Sprout
• "The Lover In Me- Sheena Easton
• "The Lovers" - Alexander O'Neal
• "The Only Way Is Up" - Yazz and the Plastic Population
• "The Party" - Kraze
• "The Promise" - When in Rome
• "The Twist (Yo Twist)" - Fat Boys & Chubby Checker
• "There's More To Love" - Communards
• "Theme from S-Express" - S-Express
• "This Brutal House" - Nitro Deluxe
• "This Is Your Life" - The Blow Monkeys
• "Tired of Getting Pushed Around" - Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet
• "Tougher Than The Rest" - Bruce Springsteen
• "Together Forever" - Rick Astley
• "Twist in My Sobriety" - Tanita Tikaram
• "Twist and Shout" - Salt-N-Pepa
• "Two Strong Hearts" - John Farnham
• "Un Roman d'amitié (Friend You Give Me a Reason)" - Elsa Lunghini and Glenn Medeiros
• "Waiting For A Star To Fall" - Boy Meets Girl (released on December 10, 1988)
• "We Call it Acieeed!" - D Mob featuring Gary Haisman
• "Wee Rule" - Wee Papa Girl Rappers
• "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses (released in 1987)
• "(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me" - Alexander O'Neal
• "What You See Is What You Get" - Glen Goldsmith
• "Whats' On Your Mind(Pure Energy) - Information Society
• "What I Am" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (released 1989 in the UK)
• "When We Was Fab" - George Harrison
• "When Will I Be Famous" - Bros
• "When You Come" - Crowded House
• "When You Put Your Heart In It" - Kenny Rogers
• "Wild: Wild West!" - Escape Club
• "Wild World" - Maxi Priest
• "Wishing Well" - Terence Trent D'Arby (released in 1987)
• "Yé ké yé ké" - Mory Kanté
• "You Are The One" - a-ha
• "You Came" - Kim Wilde
• "You Placed A Chill In My Heart - Eurythmics

Classical music

• Gerald Barry - Cheveux-de-frise
• Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI
• George Crumb - Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
• Peter Maxwell Davies - oboe concerto, trumpet concerto no. 1 (from the Strathclyde Concertos)
• Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
• Joël-François Durand - Die innere Grenze for string sextet
• Lorenzo Ferrero - La cena delle beffe (incidental music)
• Michael Finnissy - Red Earth for orchestra
• Henryk Górecki - String Quartet No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
• Stephen Hartke - Pacific Rim Overture
• Vagn Holmboe - Symphony No. 12, M. 338
• António Chagas Rosa - Piano Sonata
• Bogusław Schaeffer - Concerto for Piano Duet and Orchestra
• Alfred Schnittke - Piano Quartet; Symphony No. 5/ Concerto Grosso No. 4; Concerto for Piano four hands and Orchestra; Klingende Buchstaben
• Peter Sculthorpe - Kakadu
• Philip Sparke - Concerto Grosso
• Tōru Takemitsu - Tree Line for chamber orchestra
• John Tavener - The Akathist of Thanksgiving
• Takashi Yoshimatsu - Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"

Opera

• Philip Glass - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Montag aus Licht

Musical theater

• Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London revival
• Chess (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus) - Broadway production
• The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
• Sarafina     Broadway production

Births

• January 14:
  • Jordy, French singer
  • January 14 - Mikalah Gordon, American Idol contestant
• January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi, Fillipina pop singer
• February 3 - Cho Kyu Hyun, Korean pop singer
• February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese pop singer
• February 18 - Shim Chang Min, Korean pop singer
• February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
• February 23 - Ashley Cooper, New Zealand pop singer
• February 27 - JD Natasha, American Latin music artist
• February 28 - Milly Edwards, Australian Idol contestant
• March 2 - Nadine Samonte, German pop singer
• March 6 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish pop singer
• March 10 - Patrick Henry Hughes, American tenor and trumpeter
• April 6 - Raymond David Henriksen, Norwegian singer
• April 24 - Natalie Zahra, Australian Idol contestant
• April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
• April 29 - Younha, Japanese & Korean pop singer
• May 2 - Guilherme Rodrigues, Portuguese jazz musician
• May 5 - Adele, English singer
• May 5 - Brooke Hogan, American pop singer
• May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
• May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol winner
• May 17 - Kate Markin, Best Aussie Out winner
• May 24 - Billy Gilman, American country singer
• June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
• June 6 - Neha Kakkar, Indian pop singer
• June 12 - Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter
• June 16 - Keshia Chante, Canadian urban singer
• June 19 - Magdalena Diaków, Polish pop singer
• June 20 - May J., Japanese R&B singer
• June 22 - Miliyah Kato, Japanese R&B singer
• June 29 - Martina Šindlerová, Slovak pop singer
• July 2 - Amali Ward, Australian Idol contestant
• July 7 - Kaci Brown, American pop/R&B singer
• July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner
• July 25 - Sarah Geronimo, Fillipina pop singer
• August 2 - Brittany Hargest, American pop singer
• August 14 - Shahd Barmada, Arabian Idol contestant
• August 27 - Alexa Vega, American pop singer
• August 31 - Megan McCauley, American pop singer
• September 6 - Gustav Schäfer, Drummer to German band Tokio Hotel
• September 16: Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter
• September 22 - Bethany Dillon, American Christian music artist
• September 30 - Jyongri, Japanese pop singer
• October 4 - Jessica Benson, American R&B singer
• October 11 - Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer
• October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese pop singer
• October 23 - Caleigh Peters, American pop singer
• October 24 - Cory Bold, American hip hop musician
• November 10 - Chisaki Hama, Japanese singer
• November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American singer/actress
• December 19 - Paulina Gretzky, American pop singer
• December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese pop singer
• December 27 - Hayley Williams, American singer, Paramore
• December 30 - James Hall, British singer-songwriter

Deaths

• January 13 - Radamés Gnattali, Brazilian composer
• January 15 - Andy Gibb, singer, 30 (myocarditis)
• January 19 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
• February 9 - Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor and opera administrator
• February 14 - Frederic Loewe, composer of musicals
• February 27 - Gene de Paul, pianist and composer
• March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress
• March 7 - Divine, singer and drag entertainer, 42 (heart failure)
• March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
• March 10 - William Wordsworth, Scottish composer
• March 15 - Frank Perkins, American song composer
• March 20 - Gil Evans, Canadian jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
• April 3 - Kai Ewans, Danish jazz musician
• April 7 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer
• April 9:
  • Brook Benton, 56 (complications of spinal meningitis)
  • David Prater, of Sam & Dave, 50 (car accident)
• April 15 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist, 33 (complications of AIDS)
• April 29 - James McCracken, tenor
• May 1 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
• May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, folk musician (The Dubliners), 53 (brain damage)
• May 13 - Chet Baker, jazz musician, 58 (head injuries from fall)
• May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr., vaudeville performer
• May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
• June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist, 26 (speedball overdose)
• July 2 - Eddie Vinson, jazz/blues musician
• July 18
  • Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor
  • Nico, German singer, 49 (brain haemorrhage)
• July 20 - Richard Holm, German operatic tenor
• August 8 - Félix Leclerc, folk singer
• August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
• August 14 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist, 48 (suicide)
• August 24
  • Kenneth Leighton, English composer
  • Nat Stuckey, American country singer
• August - Tenor Saw, dancehall artist, 22 (road accident)
• September 23 - Arwel Hughes, composer and conductor
• September 26 - Lord Melody, calypso musician
• October 7 - Billy Daniels, singer
• October 15 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, British Parsi composer, music journalist and pianist
• October 18 - Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer
• October 19 - Son House, blues musician
• October 20 - Mogens Wöldike, Danish conductor
• November 11 - William Ifor Jones, conductor
• November 13:
  • Antal Doráti, conductor
  • Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer
• November 26 - Antonio Estévez, composer
• December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
• December 6 - Roy Orbison, singer, 52 (heart attack)
• December 16 - Sylvester, R&B singer, disco performer, 41 (complications from AIDS)
• December 21 - Paul Avron Jeffreys , Cockney Rebel
• December 25 - Evgeny Golubev, Russian composer

Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1988

This list is taken from Acclaimedmusic.net.^[2]

Songs

• 1. "Teenage Riot", Sonic Youth
• 2. "F*** tha Police", N.W.A.
• 3. "Freak Scene", Dinosaur Jr.
• 4. "It Takes Two", Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
• 5. "Fast Car", Tracy Chapman
• 6. "Buffalo Stance", Neneh Cherry
• 7. "Gigantic", Pixies
• 8. "Don't Believe the Hype", Public Enemy
• 9. "Straight Outta Compton", N.W.A.
• 10. "Waiting Room", Fugazi

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremes.

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1988

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Charts

• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1988 (U.S.)

See also

• Record labels established in 1988

References

1. ^ unattributed (undated). "Curriculum vitae (conductor)". unidentified publisher. http://www.peter-ruzicka.de/eng/peter_ruzicka_eng.html. Retrieved 2008-09-02. 
2. ^ Acclaimed Music

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