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1995 in music

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1995 in music - Events

• January 18 - Jerry Garcia wrecks his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California. Garcia is not injured in the accident.
• February 1 - Welsh Rock Band Manic Street Preachers Band Member Richey James Edwards Goes Missing after leaving the London Embassy Hotel at 7AM.
• February 6 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison on a sexual assault charge.
• February 12 - Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer disappeared from Highway 101 when he was trying to get back home from the Los Angeles International Airport. He tried calling his family, related people and 911 for somebody to help him, but they did not.
• February 14 - Welsh Rock Band Manic Street Preachers Band Member Richey James Edwards' Vauxhall (Opel outside UK) Cavalier is found in a servide station on the Bristol side of the Severn bridge, with evidence that he had been living in it. Although he was near a notorious suicide spot, no evidence would suggest this.
• February 19 - Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Bay Watch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancún. (The bride wore a white bikini.)
• February 25 - Lyle Lovett has an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico, breaking his collarbone. The accident prevented Lovett from attending the Grammy Awards. (He ended up winning 2 awards)
• March 1 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
• March 3 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery, following a brain aneurysm two days earlier in Switzerland.
• March 17 - Madonna holds a premiere for her new Bedtime Stories video. The party is called the "world's biggest pajama party" due to the fact that the 1500 guests wear pj's and teddy bears.
• March 25 - In New Zealand, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is rescued after being carried 250 feet offshore by a riptide.
• March 28 - Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announced that they were separating after 21 months of marriage
• March 31 - Selena is shot and killed by her former personal assistant and former fan club president, who had been fired for embezzlement.
• April 29 - Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility. Shakur is serving a 4½ year jail term on sexual assault charges
• May 5 - Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of heroin, in addition to two misdemeanor drug charges.
• May - The 2nd EJCF was held in Basel. Next time was in 1998.
• June 1 - Alan Wilder leaves the band Depeche Mode.
• August - The First Tibetan Freedom Concert is organized by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in Los Angeles. The proceeds from the ticket event go to the Millareppa Foundation, which exposes human rights violations in Tibet by the Chinese government. Artists appearing included The Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and A Tribe Called Quest.
• August 9 - Jerry Garcia dies of a heart attack while in drug rehab at Serenity Knolls in Marin County, California. The remaining members of the Grateful Dead choose to disband it due to this event.
• August 28 - Oingo Boingo announces that the band will break up following a series of Halloween shows in L.A. Lead singer Danny Elfman goes on to a career scoring major motion pictures, including nearly every film directed by Tim Burton.
• September 2 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
• October - The first International Guitar Festival is held in Buenos Aires.
• November 19 - Part One of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. The first installment ends with the music video for "Free As A Bird", the first new Beatles recording since their break up in 1970.
• November 20 - Part Two of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. (Volume One of The Beatles Anthology CD series is also released on this day.)
• November 21 - Part Three of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC.
• December 21 - Madonna is subpoenaed to testify at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, CA on January 3, 1996 against her stalker, Robert Hoskins. Hoskins was shot by a security guard outside her estate in Los Angeles, CA in May of 1995 for trespassing on her property and threatening to marry or kill her. Madonna was not at home during the incident. If she ignores the order, a $5 million warrant will be issued for her arrest.
• Sam Phillips makes her motion picture debut in the Bruce Willis action film, Die Hard With a Vengeance. Phillips plays one of the main terrorists in the film.
• Garth Brooks will release his 6th studio album, "Fresh Horses", which will debut at #2 on the pop charts and remain at #1 on the country charts for several weeks.
• 3 members R.E.M., Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, fall ill to various illnesses while on the "Monster Tour". Berry suffered an aneurism which required immediate surgery, Stipe suffered a hiatal hernia and Mills underwent an appendectomy.
• Nada Surf's career begins
• Nada Surf recorded High/Low, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
• Phil Collins recorded Dance Into the Light, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
• Tool recorded Ænima, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
• MxPx releases Teenage Politics
• The Offspring re-issues The Offspring (the 1989 album)
• Ritmi i Rrugës form - the pioneering and most successful Albanian rap group.
• System of a Down forms
• The Ataris form
• Days of the New form
• Eve 6 forms
• Godsmack forms
• Nickelback forms
• Coal Chamber forms
• Big Drill Car disbands
• Dire Straits disbands
• Living Colour disbands
• Kyuss disbands in October
• Alanis Morissette resurrects her dying music career with the album Jagged Little Pill
• MP3 files start flourishing on the Internet
• Idlewild forms
• A watershed year for death metal, across the whole spectrum: legendary melodic death metal albums Slaughter of the Soul, The Gallery, and The Jester Race released by At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames, respectively; Death's Symbolic Morbid Angel's Domination and Vader's De Profundis; on the more brutal side of death metal, landmark albums Pierced From Within, None So Vile are released by [[Suffocation.

1995 in music - Albums released

• Me Against the World - 2Pac
• Thank You For The Music - ABBA (4-CD box set)
• Head Over Heels - Paula Abdul
• Daydream - Mariah Carey
• The Bridge - Ace of Base
• Ballbreaker - AC/DC (their first album in five years)
• Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (her American debut album)
• Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (final album)
• Stomp 442 - Anthrax
• Die for the Government - Anti-Flag
• Slaughter of the Soul - At the Gates
• The Final Experiment - Ayreon
• All Ages - Bad Religion
• The Beatles Anthology, volume 1 - The Beatles
• Deluxe - Better Than Ezra
• Post - Björk
• Imaginations From the Other Side - Blind Guardian
• Soup - Blind Melon (final album)
• Cheshire Cat - Blink-182
• Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - Blue Meanies
• These Days - Bon Jovi
• E 1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• 1.OUTSIDE - David Bowie
• Fresh Horses - Garth Brooks
• Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers
• Set Your Goals - CIV
• Ragged Ass Road - Tom Cochrane
• Comme si j'étais là... - Dalida (remix album)
• Symbolic - Death
• Alive in Studio A - Bruce Dickinson
• Once Upon the Cross - Deicide
• In Debt - Disco Inferno
• Pet Your Friends - Dishwalla
• NOLA - Down
• A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
• E-40 - In A Major Way
• Savage Poetry - Edguy
• Elastica - Elastica (debut)
• Close Your Eyes - Kurt Elling
• Cha Cha Cha - EMF (final album before disbanding)
• Erasure - Erasure
• Sparkle & Fade - Everclear
• Flood - Everon
• Jealous One's Envy - Fat Joe
• Demanufacture - Fear Factory
• Big Choice - Face to Face
• Short Bus - Filter
• Land of the Free - Gamma Ray
• Garbage - Garbage (their debut album)
• Mandylion - The Gathering
• Up - Great Big Sea
• Liquid Swords - GZA
• Insomniac - Green Day
• Sickness - Gridlock
• It Matters to Me - Faith Hill
• Cracked Rear View - Hootie & the Blowfish
• Burnt Offerings - Iced Earth
• The Jester Race - In Flames
• The Riddle Box - Insane Clown Posse
• HIStory - Past Present and Future - Michael Jackson
• Bad Habits - Colin James
• 2 - Jerky Boys
• Roots to Branches - Jethro Tull
• ...And the Circus Leaves Town - Kyuss (final album)
• Ask The Fish - Leftover Salmon
• Circus - Lenny Kravitz
• Five Smokin' Tracks From Lit - Lit
• Above - Mad Season
• Something To Remember - Madonna
• Question the Answers - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Hell on Earth - Mobb Deep
• Dopes to Infinity - Monster Magnet
• Wolfheart - Moonspell
• Domination - Morbid Angel
• Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
• Southpaw Grammar - Morrissey
• World of Morrissey - Morrissey
• Sacrifice - Motörhead
• Teenage Politics - MxPx
• Further Down the Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
• Brainbloodvolume - Ned's Atomic Dustbin (final album)
• Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
• (What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
• The Offspring - The Offspring (a re-issue)
• Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version - Ol' Dirty Bastard (solo debut)
• Naveed - Our Lady Peace
• Ozzmosis - Ozzy Osbourne
• Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
• Original Soundtracks No. 1 - Passengers
• Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
• About Time - Pennywise
• Goofyfoot - Phranc
• P-U-L-S-E - Pink Floyd (live)
• To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
• Hello - Poe (debut)
• The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America (debut)
• Different Class - Pulp
• The Bends - Radiohead
• Herzeleid - Rammstein (debut)
• Adios Amigos - The Ramones (Last studio album released)
• Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
• One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Return Of (The Rentals) - The Rentals (debut)
• Do You Want More?!!!??! - The Roots
• Dead Winter Dead - Savatage
• Ledbetter Heights - Kenny Wayne Shepherd (debut)
• Frogstomp - Silverchair
• Subhuman Race - Skid Row
• Sleater-Kinney - Sleater-Kinney
• It's Five O' Clock Somewhere - Slash's Snakepit (debut)
• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins (double CD set)
• Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past - Social Distortion (a re-issue)
• Let Your Dim Light Shine - Soul Asylum
• Two Headed - Spirit of the West
• Rotting Piñata - Sponge
• The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
• Fourth Dimension - Stratovarius
• Acid Yantra - Sun Dial
• I Should Coco - Supergrass (debut)
• Jerky Boys: The Movie - Soundtrack
• Raoul and the Kings of Spain - Tears for Fears
• Hanky Panky - The The
• Infernal Love - Therapy?
• 311 - 311
• Tambu - Toto
• Maxinquaye - Tricky
• I Am an Elastic Firecracker - Tripping Daisy
• Peel Slowly and See - The Velvet Underground
• Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
• A Northern Soul - The Verve
• Still Not Black Enough - W.A.S.P.
• Stanley Road - Paul Weller
• D'Eux - Céline Dion

1995 in music - Top hits

• "I Want You"- Madonna
• "Don't Speak"- No Doubt
• "1979" - Smashing Pumpkins
• "All Over You" - Live
• "Tomorrow" - Silverchair
• "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
• "She's Every Woman" - Garth Brooks
• "J.A.R." - Green Day
• "Beautiful Life" - Ace of Base
• "Rock And Roll Is Dead" - Lenny Kravitz
• "One Of Us" - Joan Osborne
• "California Love" - Tupac Shakur featuring Dr. Dre
• "Carnival" - Natalie Merchant
• "Connection" - Elastica
• "Only Wanna Be With You" - Hootie & the Blowfish
• "Hook" - Blues Traveler
• "Wonderwall" - Oasis
• "Roll To Me" - Del Amitri
• "Breakfast At Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
• "Life's a Bitch" - Nas
• "Misery" - Soul Asylum
• "1st Of Tha Month" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• "Run-Around" - Blues Traveler
• "Hey Man, Nice Shot" - Filter
• "Buddy Holly" - Weezer
• "Fantasy" - Mariah Carey
• "When I Come Around" - Green Day
• "Don't Take It Personal" - Monica
• "Missing" - Everything But The Girl
• "As I Lay Me Down" - Sophie B. Hawkins
• "Bulls On Parade" - Rage Against The Machine
• "Good" - Better Than Ezra
• "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - Smashing Pumpkins
• "You Are Not Alone" - Michael Jackson
• "You'll See" - Madonna
• "Baby" - Brandy
• "It's Midnight Cinderella" - Garth Brooks
• "Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette
• "Alright" - Supergrass
• "Stutter" - Elastica
• "I Alone" - Live
• "Waterfalls" - TLC

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1995

1995 in music - Classical music

• Osvaldas Balakauskas - Requiem
• Harrison Birtwistle - Panic (premiered at Last Night of the Proms)
• Elliott Carter - String Quartet No.5
• Mario Davidovsky - Violin Concertino
• Mario Davidovsky - Flashbacks for flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion
• Ludovico Einaudi - Chatrang Overture
• Ulrich Leyendecker - Violin Concerto
• Theo Loevendie - Piano Concerto
• Krzysztof Penderecki - Violin Concerto No. 2 Metamorphosen
• Stanislaw Skrowaczewski - Passacaglia Immaginaria
• Michael Tippett - The Rose Lake
• Malcolm Williamson - A Year of Birds

1995 in music - Opera

• Roger Ames - Hearts on Fire
• Michael Easton - The Selfish Giant (for children)
• Stewart Wallace - Harvey Milk

1995 in music - Musical theater

• Hello Dolly     Broadway revival
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying     Broadway revival
• Victor/Victoria     Broadway production

1995 in music - Musical films

• Arabian Knight     animated feature
• Pocahontas     animated feature

1995 in music - Deaths

• January 31 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
• February 18 - Bob Stinson, The Replacements, complications caused by drug and alcohol abuse
• February 23 - Melvin Franklin, The Temptations, brain seizure
• March 5 - Vivian Stanshall, eccentric British musician
• March 9 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, Helloween, suicide
• March 26 - Eazy-E , AIDS
• March 29 - Baltimora, singer
• March 31 - Selena, singer
• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress, lung cancer
• April 14 - Burl Ives, singer, actor
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, US actress, dancer and singer
• May 8 - Teresa Teng, singer
• May 16 - Lola Flores, singer and dancer
• June 4 - Ernest Borneman, jazz musician and critic
• June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist
• June 14 - Rory Gallagher, Irish blues/rock guitarest
• July 23 - Miklós Rózsa, film score composer
• August 9 - Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead
• August 18 - Alan Dell, Radio 2 DJ
• August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of Musique concrète
• August 23 - Dwayne Goettel, Skinny Puppy, drug overdose
• August 26 - Ronnie White (57),the Miracles, cowriter of the Temptations hit "My Girl" (with Smokey Robinson), leukemia.
• August 30 - Sterling Morrison (53), The Velvet Underground guitarist, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• October 19 - Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter
• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, singer, member of The Andrews Sisters
• October 21 - Shannon Hoon, member of group Blind Melon
• October 21 - Hans Helfritz, composer
• October 26 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
• November 17 - Alan Hull, formerly of Lindisfarne
• November 21 - Peter Grant, manager of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, myocardial infarction
• November 23 - Junior Walker, musician
• December 25 - Dean Martin, singer,actor
• December 25 - Nicolas Slonimsky, conductor and composer
• December 27 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist

1995 in music - Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, me, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young and Frank Zappa
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Charles Wesley (writer of "Hark The Herald Angels Sing")

1995 in music - Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1995

1995 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1995 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1995

1995 in music - Mercury Music Prize

• Dummy - Portishead wins.

1995 in music - Charts

1995 in music - KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1995

1995 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1995

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