1989 in music - Events

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - 1989 in music

See also: 1988 in music, other events of 1989, 1990 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1989 in music - Events. January 7 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Back in the U.S.S.R. exclusively in Russia. Bootleg copies sell for as much as $1,000 in the United States January 14 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House pa ...

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1988 in music - Charts

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - 1990 in music

See also: 1989 in music, 1990 in British music, other events of 1990, 1991 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1990 in music - 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, th ...

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1990 in music - KROQ

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Blackfoot music

Blackfoot music, the music of the Blackfoot tribes (best translated in the Blackfoot language as nitsínixki - "I sing", from nínixksini - "song"), is primarily a vocal kind of music, using few instruments (called ninixkiátsis, derived from the word for song and associated primarily with European-American instruments), only percussion and voice, and few words. By far the most important percussion instruments are drums (istókimatsis), with rattles (auaná) and bells often being associated with the ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Country Music Association

The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre. The objectives of the organization are to guide and enhance the development of Country Music throughout the world; to demonstrate it as a viable medium to advertisers, consumers and media; and to provide a unity of purpose for the Country Music industry. Initially, CMA's Board of Directors included nine directors and five officers. Wesl ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Alfred Uhry

Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright best known for the play and screenplay of Driving Miss Daisy. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Uhry graduated from Brown University. Uhry's early work for the stage was as a lyricist and librettist for a number of largely unsuccessful musicals, including America's Sweetheart about Al Capone and a revival of Little Johnny Jones starring Donny Osmond. His first major success was The Robber Bridegroom (1975), a musical composed by Robert Waltman based on a novella by Eudora Welty. Uhry recei ...

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Alfred Uhry - Atlanta Trilogy

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Yanni

Yanni, the popular name for Yanni Chrysomallis (born November 14, 1954), is a Greek American keyboardist and composer. He was born in Kalamata, Greece. Although many fans and critics call his music "New Age," Yanni himself has distanced himself from that label. In his autobiography, Yanni devotes an entire chapter to the subject, stating that he prefers to call his music "contemporary instrumental." Early in his life, Yanni tried to forge a career in rock and roll, touring with locally popular bands in the Midwest ...

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Yanni - Music Albums

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Bananarama

Bananarama is a British girl group that found worldwide fame with their melodic pop songs. The group was founded in London in 1981 by friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sarah Dallin (Woodward and Dallin were friends since age 13). In 1988 they got into the Guinness Book of World Records as the United Kingdom's best selling girl group ever (but currently best selling girl group ever is British group Spice Girls). In the same year (1988) Siobhan Fahey left the group after marrying Eurythmics' Dave S ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Věra Čáslavská

Věra Čáslavská (born May 3, 1942) is a Czech (formerly Czechoslovakian) gymnast. A blonde, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles. Born in Prague and originally a figure skater, she debuted internationally at the 1958 World Championships, winning a silver medal in the team event. She first participated in the Olympics in 1960, also winning a silver medal with the Czechoslovakian team. By 1962, she fought for the all-around title at t ...

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Costa-Gavras

Constantinos Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece), better known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes. He has made movies mostly in French but also several in English. In Z (1969), an investigator, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, tries to uncover the truth about the murder of a prominent leftist politician, played by Yves Montand, while government officials and the military attempt to cover up their roles. The film is a fictionalised accou ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is a British electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of ambient music. Eno first came to prominence as the keyboardist and sonic wizard of the 1970s art rock band Roxy Music (see 1970s in music). After leaving the group, Eno recorded a series of idiosyncratic rock albums, later turning to more abstract soundscapes on groundbreaking albums like Another Gre ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Animotion

Animotion is a 1980s pop band best known for the songs "Obsession" and "Room to Move." Formed in 1983 from the remnants of a retro science fiction band called Red Zone, they signed a record deal with Polygram Records in 1984 and made 2 albums. During 1986 and 1987 Animotion toured extensively, appearing alongside performers such as Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, INXS, The Eurythmics, Simply Red, Phil Collins, and Genesis. In the midst of recording their third album, Animotion suddenly disbanded. They reunited on February 8, 2001 in resp ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss (born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois), is a bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. Krauss initially studied classical violin, starting at five, but she quickly switched to bluegrass. By age eight she started entering local talent contests and at ten she had her own band. At twelve she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the Most Promising Fiddler in th ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - D.A. Pennebaker

Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker (born July 15, 1925 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Performing arts (especially pop music) and politics are his primary subjects. In the early 1960s Pennebaker (known as "Penny" to his friends), together with Richard Leacock and Robert Drew, founded Drew Associates. In 1963 Leacock and Pennebaker left to found their own production firm. Later he often worked with his wife, Chris Hegedus. Their company, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, ha ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - 1985 in music

See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1985 in music - Events. January 28 - Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder, record the song "We Are The World". February 21 - Whitney Houston releases her first album. March 3 - A wax like ...

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1985 in music - Charts

1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia - Al Green musician

Reverend Al Green (b. April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. Al Green musician - Early years. Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. The son of a sharecropper, he started out at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when ...

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1989 in music - Events: Encyclopedia II - Triple J - Station history

Triple J - Foundation and early years. Triple J originally commenced operation in Sydney as 2JJ or Double Jay. It is a legacy of the progressive media policies of the Whitlam Labor government of 1972-75. The station and many of its announcers appear to be (and have often been accused of being) significantly more left-wing than the usually conservative major political parties. Double Jay was initially intended as the first link in a new national "youth network". However, this expansion was lon ...

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