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1988 in music

See also: 1987 in music, other events of 1988, 1989 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'

1988 in music - Events

• Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
• January – Broadcast of 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.
• February 13 - Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. 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 is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy suffered burns over ten percent of his body. Mötley Crüe issued a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.
• February 24 - Alice Cooper announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona.
• 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.
• March 12 - Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
• April to July - Suicidal Tendencies records How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?, which will be a blockbuster album on September 13
• April 19 - Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
• May 1 - Citing the 1st Amendment, 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".
• July 1 - Quartetto Cetra's last concert.
• August 28 - While traveling down the Ventura Freeway in Southern California, the motor home carrying the Charlie Daniels band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
• October 10 - Acid House: Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in 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.
• Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
• December 4 - singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio.
• December 31 - Acid House: Genesis & Sunrise/Back to the Future stage the biggest Acid Party in the world in a warehouse in Hackney, UK (5,000 people)

• Nirvana's career begins
• Phish's career begins
• Steven Morrissey begins solo career;
• The Offspring begin their recording career
• Baha Men forms
• After 7 forms
• Blind Melon forms
• Garth Brooks signs to Capitol records.
• Blues Traveler forms
• Cypress Hill forms
• The Fauves form
• Guttermouth forms
• Jesus Jones forms
• No Doubt forms
• Pennywise forms
• Radiohead forms (as On A Friday)
• Sublime forms
• Warrior Soul forms
• Big Black break up
• Husker Du break up
• The Damned break up
• The Housemartins break up
• The Communards break up
• Heaven 17 break up
• Husker Du break up
• Supertramp break up
• The Cars break up
• Fish leaves British neo-progressive rock group Marillion.

1988 in music - Albums released

• Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC
• Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (debut)
• Y Kant Tori Read - Tori Amos (debut)
• State Of Euphoria - Anthrax
• Pound For Pound - Anvil
• Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint
• Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
• Wide Awake In Dreamland - Pat Benatar
• Small Block - Big Drill Car (EP)
• In Heat - Black N' Blue (final album)
• In Battle There Is No Law - Bolt Thrower
• New Jersey - Bon Jovi
• Britny Fox - Britny Fox (debut)
• Bullet Boys - Bullet Boys (debut)
• Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (debut)
• 19 - Chicago
• Starfish - The Church
• Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
• I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
• The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies
• Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray
• Dangerous Age - Bad Company
• Danzig - Danzig (debut, Glenn Danzig's 3rd band following The Misfits & Samhain)
• Wyau - Datblygu
• Leprosy - Death
• Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
• Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
• Beast From the East - Dokken (live album)
• Big Thing - Duran Duran
• Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
• Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E
• The Innocents - Erasure
• Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
• Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
• Out of This World - Europe
• Fabulous Disaster - Exodus
• On Target - Fastway (final album)
• No Exit - Fates Warning
• Only Life - The Feelies
• Truth and Soul - Fishbone
• Lita - Lita Ford
• Live 1 EP - Frehley's Comet
• Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet
• Fugazi (album) - Fugazi (debut EP)
• Breakwater - Lennie Gallant (debut)
• Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
• Lead Me On - Amy Grant
• The Sweet Children - Green Day
• GNR Lies - Guns N' Roses
• Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm (solo debut)
• Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite
• Greg Howe - Greg Howe
• Over The Edge - Hurricane (debut ALBUM)
• Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
• Colin James - Colin James
• Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
• 20 Years of Jethro Tull - Jethro Tull
• Reg Strikes Back - Elton John
• Greatest Hits - Journey
• Ram It Down - Judas Priest
• Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
• Shadowland - k.d. lang
• Big Deal - Killer Dwarfs
• Smashes, Thrashes & Hits - KISS
• King Kobra III - King Kobra (final album)
• Blow My Fuse - Kix
• Kylie - Kylie (debut album)
• L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns (debut)
• Imagine: John Lennon - John Lennon (soundtrack)
• Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
• Vivid - Living Colour
• Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
• Odyssey - Yngwie Malmsteen (or Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force)
• So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
• ...And Justice for All - Metallica
• The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
• Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore
• No Sleep At All - Motörhead (live album)
• Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
• Land of Dreams - Randy Newman
• Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• If You Can't Lick Em'...Lick Em' - Ted Nugent (last solo album before forming the 90's band Damn Yankees)
• The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad O'Connor
• No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne
• Outrider - Jimmy Page
• Force Majuer - Doro Pesch (former Warlock vocalists solo debut album)
• Introspective - Pet Shop Boys (EP)
• The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
• Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
• Surfer Rosa - Pixies
• Now and Zen - Robert Plant
• Open Up and Say...Ahh!- Poison
• Lovesexy - Prince
• It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
• Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
• Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
• Green - R.E.M.
• Abbey Road EP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Nothing Wrong - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
• Skyscraper - David Lee Roth
• Savage Amusement - Scorpions
• Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard
• VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
• South of Heaven - Slayer
• Green Thoughts - The Smithereens
• Prison Bound - Social Distortion
• Ultramega OK - Soundgarden
• Beaches - Soundtrack
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Soundtrack
• Out Of Order - Rod Stewart
• In God We Trust - Stryper
• How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies
• Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
• Junekbox - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
• The New Order - Testament
• Hold an Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany
• Toots in Memphis - Toots
• Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys
• The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
• Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
• Winger - Winger (debut)
• Roll With It - Steve Winwood
• Rattle and Hum - U2
• Ain't Misbehavin' - UFO
• OU812 - Van Halen
• 3 - Violent Femmes
• Vixen - Vixen (debut)
• Guitar - Frank Zappa
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa

1988 in music - Top hits

• "Simply Irresistible" - Robert Palmer
• "Tell It To My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
• "Nothing Can Divide Us" - Jason Donovan
• "Age Of Reason" - John Farnham
• "So Excellent" - Kylie Mole
• "Two Strong Hearts" - John Farnham
• "That's When I Think Of You" - 1927
• "Dignity" - Deacon Blue
• "Ship Of Fools" - Erasure
• "Chains Of Love" - Erasure
• "Then What"- young jeezy
• "A Little Respect" - Erasure
• "Stop!" - Erasure
• "Devil Inside" - INXS
• "New Sensation" - INXS
• "I Should Be So Lucky" - Kylie Minogue
• "Suedehead" - Morrissey
• "Crash" - The Primitives
• "Angel Of Harlem" - U2
• "Desire" - U2
• "Kokomo" - The Beach Boys
• "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
• "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
• "Lead Me On" - Amy Grant
• "Love Changes Everything" - Climie Fisher
• "When Will I Be Famous" - Bros
• "Push It" - Salt-N-Pepa
• "Revolution Baby" - Transvision Vamp
• "Drop The Boy"- Bros
• "Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
• "Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" - Billy Ocean
• "Anything for You" - Gloria Estefan
• "Saved By Love" - Amy Grant
• "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
• "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
• "Look Away" - Chicago
• "Quelque part au Soleil" - Dalida (inédit)
• "Johnny B. Goode" - Judas Priest
• "One More Try" - George Michael
• "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
• "Sweet Child O' Mine" -Guns N' Roses
• "Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction
• "Got My Mind Set On You" - George Harrison
• "1-2-3" - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
• "Forever Young" - Rod Stewart
• "Is this Love" - Whitesnake
• "I Get Weak" - Belinda Carlisle
• "The Promise" - When in Rome
• "When You Put Your Heart In It" - Kenny Rogers
• "Another Lover" - Giant Steps
• "John Skero Goes West" - John Skero

1988 in music - Published popular music

• "Kissing A Fool" w.m. George Michael

1988 in music - Classical music

• Gerald Barry - Cheveux-de-frise
• Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI
• George Crumb - Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
• Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
• Stephen Hartke - Pacific Rim Overture
• Nicholas Jackson - Variations on ‘Parise to the Lord, the Almighty’
• António Chagas Rosa - Piano Sonata
• Peter Sculthorpe - Kakadu
• Tōru Takemitsu - Tree Line for chamber orchestra
• John Tavener - The Akathist of Thanksgiving
• Takashi Yoshimatsu - Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"

1988 in music - 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

1988 in music - Births

• January 14 - Jordy, singer
• May 2 - Guilherme Rodrigues, jazz musician
• May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
• May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol winner
• June 16 - Keshia Chante, Canadian urban singer
• August 27 - Alexa Vega, Spy Kids as Carmen Cortez and song for "Isle Of Dreams"

1988 in music - Deaths

• January 19 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
• February 14 - Frederic Loewe, composer of musicals
• February 27 - Gene De Paul, US pianist and composer
• March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, singer
• March 7 - Divine, singer
• March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
• March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
• April 9 - Brook Benton, complications of spinal meningitis.
• April 9 - Dave Prater, of Sam & Dave, car accident
• April 29 - James McCracken, tenor
• May 1 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
• May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, The Dubliners
• May 13 - Chet Baker, jazz musician
• May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr, vaudeville performer
• May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
• June 25, Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
• July 2 - Eddie Vinson, jazz/blues musician
• August 8 - Félix Leclerc, folk singer
• August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
• October 7 - Billy Daniels, US singer
• October 18 - Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer
• October 19, Son House, blues musician
• November 13 - Antal Doráti, conductor
• December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
• December 6, Roy Orbison, singer

1988 in music - 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

1988 in music - Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1988

1988 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1988 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1988

1988 in music - Charts

1988 in music - List of No. 1 Hits

• Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1988

1988 in music - KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1988

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