1994 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

Events

• January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hit a freeway median and flipped over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son was 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. Cobain would die on April 5.
• 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. Cobain would kill himself on April 5.
• 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 5 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, commits suicide.
• 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 - 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.
• August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogota, 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.
• Ludacris moves to college
• 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.

• Selected Ambient Works 2 - Aphex Twin
• Incunabula - Autechre
• Mellow Gold - Beck
• Stereopathetic Soul Manure - Beck
• One Foot in the Grave - Beck
• Pussy Whipped - Bikini Kill
• Amorica - The Black Crowes
• Crossroad - Bon Jovi
• Walk On - Boston
• Both Sides - Phil Collins
• Out Of Range - Ani DiFranco
• The Hot Seat - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Dookie - Green Day
• Friendly People - Guttermouth
• Live Through This - Hole
• 2 - Jerky Boys
• Grace -- Jeff Buckley
• Diary of A Mad Band - Jodeci
• Kerbdog - Kerbdog
• Dogman - King's X
• (Welcome to) Sky Valley - Kyuss
• Youthanasia - Megadeth
• Illmatic - Nas
• The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
• MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
• Definitely Maybe - Oasis
• Smash - The Offspring
• No Quarter - Page and Plant
• Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
• Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
• Dummy - Portishead (debut)
• Monster - R.E.M
• Weight - Rollins Band
• Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
• Spiderland - Slint
• Twice Removed - Sloan
• Superunknown - Soundgarden
• Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
• Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
• Weezer (1994) - Weezer
• Orthodox Celts - Orthodox Celts

• "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
• "Loser" - Beck
• "Everyday" - Phil Collins
• "Come Out And Play" - The Offspring
• "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
• "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
• "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
• "Without You" - Mariah Carey
• "All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
• "Until I Fall Away" - Gin Blossoms
• "Longview" - Green Day

• Beauty and the Beast     Broadway production
• Carousel     Broadway revival
• Damn Yankees     Broadway revival
• Grease     Broadway revival
• Show Boat     Broadway revival
• Sunset Boulevard     Broadway production

• The Lion King     animated feature film
• That's Entertainment III

Deaths

• January 15 - Harry Nilsson, heart disease
• March 22 - Dan Hartman, brain tumor
• April 5 - Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, killed himself.

• 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
• Grammy Awards of 1994
• Eurovision Song Contest 1994