1994 in music: Encyclopedia - 1994 in music

1994 in music

See also: 1993 in music, other events of 1994, 1995 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music'

1994 in music - Events

• January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son is 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.
• 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.
• 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 8 - The dead body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Is said that he committed suicide three days before.
• 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 - Weezer releases their debut album. The self-titled "blue" album goes multiplatinum. 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.
• July - The Verbier Festival is launched.
• August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, 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.
• 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.

1994 in music - Albums released

• The Sign - Ace of Base
• Big Ones - Aerosmith (compilation)
• Box of Fire - Aerosmith (box set)
• Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
• Tales From the Thousand Lakes - Amorphis
• Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin
• Zingalamaduni - Arrested Development (final album before disbanding)
• Russel's Shorts - Arrogant Worms
• Incunabula - Autechre
• Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
• Maybe You Should Drive - Barenaked Ladies
• Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
• Mellow Gold - Beck
• Stereopathetic Soul Manure - Beck
• One Foot in the Grave - Beck
• Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill
• Amorica - The Black Crowes
• Four - Blues Traveler
• ...For Victory - Bolt Thrower
• Crossroad - Bon Jovi
• Chocolate Synthesizer - The Boredoms
• Walk On - Boston
• The Hits - Garth Brooks
• Sixteen Stone - Bush
• Motorcade of Generosity - Cake
• The Bleeding - Cannibal Corpse
• Heartwork - Carcass
• From the Cradle - Eric Clapton
• Both Sides - Phil Collins
• Resurrection - Common Sense
• No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
• Balls to Picasso - Bruce Dickinson
• Out Of Range - Ani DiFranco
• Without a Sound - Dinosaur Jr.
• D.I. Go Pop - Disco Inferno
• Awake - Dream Theater
• Hell Freezes Over - The Eagles
• The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
• The Cross of Changes - Enigma
• I Say, I Say, I Say - Erasure
• House Of Love - Amy Grant
• Dookie - Green Day
• Friendly People - Guttermouth
• Live Through This - Hole
• Cracked Rear View - Hootie & the Blowfish (debut)
• Laid - James
• 2 - Jerky Boys
• Grace - Jeff Buckley
• Diary of A Mad Band - Jodeci
• The Ringmaster - Insane Clown Posse
• The Great Subconscious Club - K's Choice
• Kerbdog - Kerbdog
• Dogman - King's X
• KoRn - KoRn
• (Welcome to) Sky Valley - Kyuss
• Hungry for Stink - L7
• Throwing Copper - Live
• Whip-Smart - Liz Phair
• Burn My Eyes - Machine Head
• The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
• Portrait of an American Family - Marilyn Manson
• Under the Table and Dreaming-Dave Matthews Band
• Too High to Die - Meat Puppets
• Youthanasia - Megadeth
• Stoner Witch - Melvins
• Houdini - Melvins
• Athos - Stephan Micus
• Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
• Illmatic - Nas
• Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
• MTV Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
• World Demise - Obituary
• Definitely Maybe - Oasis
• Smash - The Offspring
• Orthodox Celts - Orthodox Celts
• W.F.O. - Overkill
• No Quarter - Page & Plant
• Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
• Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
• Wildflowers - Tom Petty
• The Division Bell - Pink Floyd
• Dummy - Portishead (debut)
• Music for the Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
• Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age - Public Enemy
• Pulp Fiction - Soundtrack
• Monster - R.E.M.
• Voodoo Lounge - Rolling Stones
• Weight - Rollins Band
• Black Hand Inn - Running Wild
• Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
• Scratch the Surface - Sick Of It All
• Divine Intervention - Slayer
• Spiderland - Slint
• Twice Removed - Sloan
• Souvlaki - Slowdive
• Pisces Iscariot - Smashing Pumpkins
• Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing
• Superunknown - Soundgarden
• Turn It Upside Down - Spin Doctors
• Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
• Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
• Dreamspace - Stratovarius
• Get Up On It - Keith Sweat
• Bust a Nut - Tesla
• Low - Testament
• Troublegum - Therapy?
• John Henry - They Might Be Giants
• Live!! New York City 10/14/94 - They Might Be Giants
• Grassroots - 311
• Wildhoney - Tiamat
• CrazySexyCool - TLC
• Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket
• American Thighs - Veruca Salt
• New Times - Violent Femmes
• Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
• Weezer (Blue Album) - Weezer

1994 in music - Top hits

• "90's Girl" - BlackGirl
• "All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
• "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
• "All That She Wants" - Ace of Base
• "Always" - Erasure
• "Another Night" - M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy
• "Any Time, Any Place" - Janet Jackson
• "Backwater" - Meat Puppets
• "Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots
• "Better Man" - Pearl Jam
• "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
• "Come Out And Play" - The Offspring
• "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam
• "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
• "Don't Turn Around" - Ace of Base
• "Everyday" - Phil Collins
• "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
• "Gin & Juice" - Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "I Alone" - Live
• "I Stay Away" - Alice in Chains
• "It Ain't Hard to Tell" - Nas
• "Longview" - Green Day
• "Loser" - Beck
• "Love is Strong" - Rolling Stones
• "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
• "No Rain" - Blind Melon
• "Sabatoge" - Beastie Boys
• "Seether" - Veruca Salt
• "She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips
• "The Sign" - Ace of Base
• "Spoonman" - Soundgarden
• "The Man Who Sold The World" - Nirvana
• "The Red Strokes" - Garth Brooks
• "Until I Fall Away" - Gin Blossoms
• "Waterfalls" - TLC
• "Without You" - Mariah Carey
• "You Want This" - Janet Jackson

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1994

1994 in music - Classical music

• Thomas Beveridge - Yizkor Requiem
• George Crumb - Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
• Richard Danielpour - Cello Concerto
• Mario Davidovsky - Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
• Karl Jenkins - Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
• Oliver Knussen - Horn Concerto
• György Kurtág - Stele
• Tristan Murail - L'esprit des dunes
• Einojuhani Rautavaara - Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
• Boris Tishchenko - Symphony No. 7

1994 in music - Opera

• Giovanni Bertolani (orchestrated by Francesco Germini - Matilde
• Adam Guettel - Floyd Collins

1994 in music - Musical theater

• Beauty and the Beast     Broadway production
• Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway revival
• Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) - Broadway revival
• Grease     Broadway revival
• Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) - Broadway revival
• Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production

1994 in music - Musical films

• The Lion King     animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice
• That's Entertainment! III

1994 in music - Deaths

• January 6 - Harold Sumberg, violinist
• January 15 - Harry Nilsson
• January 17 - Georges Cziffra, pianist
• February 7 - Witold Lutosławski, composer
• February 24 - Dinah Shore
• March 16 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
• March 22 - Dan Hartman
• March 23 - Donald Swann, pianist and entertainer
• ca. April 5 - Kurt Cobain
• June 14 - Henry Mancini
• June 29 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
• July 31 - Anne Shelton, British singer
• September 2 - Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer
• September 13 - John Stevens, jazz musician
• September 20 - Jule Styne
• October 19 - Martha Raye
• October 22 - Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
• November 11 - Elizabeth Maconchy, composer

1994 in music - 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

1994 in music - Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1994

1994 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1994 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1994

1994 in music - Mercury Music Prize

• Elegant Slumming - M People wins.

1994 in music - Charts

1994 in music - KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1994

1994 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1994

Categories: 1994 in music | Years in music

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "1994 in music", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki